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SR 74 begins at an interchange with I-5 in the city of San Juan Capistrano and heads east as the Ortega Highway, loosely paralleling San Juan Creek.The highway leaves the San Juan Capistrano city limits and turns northeast, going through the community of Rancho Mission Viejo and entering Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park and eventually Cleveland National Forest.
San Juan Canyon forms the mountain pass for California State Route 74 (the Ortega Highway), which connects San Juan Capistrano to Lake Elsinore and the Inland Empire. San Juan Falls, a 15-foot (4.6 m) cascade, and the 30-foot (9.1 m) Ortega Falls are located along the headwaters of the creek. [6]
The Ortega Highway crosses the creek twice in this section, and notably at the first bridge, the creek channel is narrowed from 500 feet (150 m) to 100 feet (30 m). An access road crosses San Juan Creek near where it meets Bell Canyon , and at this point, the creek is diverted into 36-inch (91 cm) culverts .
Ortega Highway, previously closed in both directions, was reopened by 6:45 p.m. There was no word on the cause of the fire. It’s been a busy year for fires in California, especially compared ...
Signs tell drivers traveling south on Interstate 75, heading for westbound Interstate 74, to expect a “new traffic pattern.” They aren’t kidding.
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Access from Ortega Highway has been blocked with gates, but there is a 13-mile (21 km) round-trip hike from the park entrance that routes past the springs. [21] The gates are opened for rare naturalist-guided tours that are listed on the OCparks.com events calendar. [18] California sycamore that likely survived the 1993 wildfire
Traffic cameras show a significant backup on westbound I-74 from Dent to the I-74/I-275 split. Traffic is backed up on Interstates 275 and 74 Monday as the time for the 2024 solar eclipse approaches.