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The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic–Tejon Route and colloquially known as the Grapevine, [3] was a two-lane highway between Los Angeles County and Kern County, California.
U.S. Route 99W was a short-lived alternate of US 99 in the Central Valley of California, running from north of Manteca via French Camp to Stockton. At the same time, from roughly 1929 to 1933, [ citation needed ] U.S. Route 99E ran to the east, having the same termini as US 99W.
The Ridge Route was the first automobile highway linking the Central Valley with the Los Angeles Basin. It was laid in a sinuous fashion through the ridges and gullies of the Sierra Pelona Mountains to the Tejon Pass around 1910. The northern portion of this highway, which became a part of U.S. Route 99, was known as "The Grapevine." The Ridge ...
A section of the 1915 Ridge Route in Lebec, California, abandoned when US 99 (later upgraded to I-5) was constructed over the Tejon Pass in order to make travel straighter and safer. Dead Man's Curve on old U.S. Route 66 in New Mexico Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland, Ohio
Ridge Route. The Ridge Route road through Gorman was paved in 1919. In 1923, the first gasoline station in California to be located away from a railroad track was established by Standard Oil. [4] Gorman was a stop on the Ridge Route, and Highway 99 after 1926, where its Standard service station beckoned travelers.
The pass is located in Kern County, California, 15 miles (24 km) to the northeast of the current Tejon Pass.It runs at the top of a divide between a point about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of the Rancho Tejon boundary in Tejon Creek Canyon, and Cottonwood Creek Canyon north of the Antelope Valley.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and allied scientists say this nearly 14,000-acre mountain ridge should be treated like the jewel it is
State Route 99 (SR 99) is a major north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California, stretching almost the entire length of the Central Valley.From its southern end at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Wheeler Ridge to its northern end at SR 36 near Red Bluff, SR 99 goes through the densely populated eastern parts of the valley.