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This road served stagecoaches and then was paved as part of the original US 101 highway. [citation needed] The route through the San Mateo and Santa Clara counties is designated as State Route 82, [28] and some stretches of it are named El Camino Real. The old road is part of the de Anza route, located a few miles west of Route 101. [citation ...
An El Camino Real for Tehama County was created near Corning and Maywood Colony (an orchard district southeast of Thomes Creek [12]) by early 20th-century community boosters (Corning Daily Observer, 1914) Advertisement for the El Camino subdivision (The Corning Daily Observer, April 9, 1920) "Hospitality headquarters at El Camino" image from an ad promising "semi-tropical verdure" and real ...
Sierra Highway or El Camino Sierra is a road in Southern California, United States.El Camino Sierra refers to the full length of a trail formed in the 19th century, rebuilt as highways in the early 20th century, that ran from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe following parts of modern State Route 14, U.S. Route 395 and State Route 89.
The entirety of US 95 in California is designated as Route 95 in the state highway system. The California Streets and Highways Code defines it as follows in section 395: [2] Route 95 is from: (a) Route 10 near Blythe to Route 40 near Needles. (b) Route 40 west of Needles northerly to the Nevada state line.
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles (English: the Old Road to Los Angeles), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta California (1822–1848), present day California.
Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.