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114-618: State Route 1 ( SR 1 ) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California . At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200 . SR 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast Highway ( PCH ), Cabrillo Highway , Shoreline Highway , or Coast Highway . Its southern terminus

228-415: A General or Western American accent ; however, alternatively viewed, California accents, due to unconscious linguistic prestige , may themselves be serving as a baseline to define accents around the U.S. that are perceived as "General American". In fact, several California-like accent features are spreading across the nation, according to 21st century research. A distinctive chain shift of vowel sounds,

342-413: A "typical" General American English , abbreviated "GA". /ɪ/ is pulled towards [ɛ] ( bit and miss are sounding more like how other dialects realize bet and mess ), /ɛ/ is pulled towards [ æ ] ( wreck and kettle are sounding more like rack and cattle ), /æ/ is pulled towards [ ä ] , and /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ merge ( cot and stock are sounding more like caught and stalk ):

456-790: A 320-foot (98 m) span that passes over the Bixby Creek gorge, the Rocky Creek Bridge , and the Big Creek Bridge . After crossing the Carmel River, SR 1 turns inland and runs along the eastern boundary of Carmel and the western boundary of Carmel Valley before becoming a freeway in Monterey . After bypassing the immediate coastline of Pebble Beach and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula ,

570-512: A designated National Highway System , but the system is completely unsigned, aside from the Trans-Canada routes. This makes Canada unique in that national highway designations are generally secondary to subnational routes. In Germany , state roads ( Landesstraßen or Staatsstraßen ) are a road class which is ranking below the federal road network ( Bundesstraßen ). The responsibility for road planning, construction and maintenance

684-639: A four lane road as the Cabrillo Highway. It rejoins the coast in Morro Bay , running through that city as a freeway, where it crosses Morro Creek at the site of a prehistoric Chumash settlement dating to the Millingstone Horizon . From there, SR 1 proceeds north to Cayucos until it again becomes a winding, two lane road with occasional passing lanes. It then continues along the coast through Cambria and San Simeon , and past

798-486: A freeway from its southern terminus all the way to Oxnard, including building an offshore causeway from the Santa Monica Pier to Topanga Canyon Boulevard south of Malibu, were ultimately killed by 1971 due to local opposition. In 1980, another section was added northwest of Ventura near Emma Wood State Beach , when several miles of the old two-lane alignment of U.S. Route 101 were posted as SR 1 where

912-625: A greater determiner of this accent than the authenticity of the individual's Southern heritage. For example, this correlates with less educated rural men of northern California documented as raising /ɛ/ in a style similar to the Southern drawl . Overall, among those who orient toward a more town lifestyle, features of the California Vowel Shift are more prominent, but not to the same extent as in urban coastal communities such as San Jose . By contrast, among those who orient toward

1026-535: A linguistic boundary between northern and southern California, particularly regarding the northern use of hella and southern (but now nationally widespread) use of dude , bro , and like . Varieties of English most popularly associated with California largely correlate with the major urban areas along the coast. Notable is the absence of a distinct /ɔ/ phoneme (the vowel sound of caught, stalk, clawed, etc.), which has completely merged with /ɑ/ (the vowel sound of cot, stock, clod, etc.), as in most of

1140-617: A more country lifestyle, the Southern features are more prominent, but some aspects of the California Vowel Shift remain present as well. The Mission brogue is a disappearing accent spoken within San Francisco , mostly during the 20th century in the Mission District . It sounds distinctly like New York and possibly Boston accents , due to a large number of Irish Americans migrating from those two East Coast cities to

1254-784: A popular route for tourists. The route annually helps bring several billion dollars to the state's tourism industry. Segments of SR 1 range from urban freeway to simple rural two-lane road. Under the California Coastal Act , those segments of the highway that run through the rural areas of the protected California Coastal Zone may not be widened beyond a scenic two-lane road. At its southernmost end in Orange County , SR 1 terminates at I-5 in Capistrano Beach in Dana Point . It then travels west into

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1368-530: A population of at least 10,000 inhabitants are urban roads (type D and E) under the jurisdiction of the relevant municipalities. The state highway that cross towns or villages with a population of less than 10,000 inhabitants are urban roads (type D and E) under the jurisdiction of the municipality, subject to authorization from ANAS . State highways in India are numbered highways that are laid and maintained by state governments . Mexico 's State Highway System

1482-633: A scenic route to numerous attractions along the coast, the route also serves as a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area , the San Francisco Bay Area , and several other coastal urban areas. SR 1 was built piecemeal in various stages, with the first section opening in the Big Sur region in the 1930s. However, portions of the route had several names and numbers over the years as more segments opened. It

1596-523: A state or province include both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on the state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other. In some countries such as New Zealand , the word "state" is used in its sense of a sovereign state or country. By this meaning a state highway is a road maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities. Australia 's important urban and inter-regional routes not covered by

1710-558: A three-digit number designation, preceded by D . Provincial roads ( Turkish : İl yolu ) are secondary roads, maintained by respective local governments with the support of the KGM. The roads have a four-digit numbering grouped as two pairs, pairs are separated by a dash. First pair represents the license number of that province . State highways are generally a mixture of primary and secondary roads, although some are freeways (for example, State Route 99 in California, which links many of

1824-650: A winding, two lane road as it passes over the Marin Hills to rejoin the coast at Muir Beach . After passing Stinson Beach and the Bolinas Lagoon , SR 1 avoids the immediate coastline of Point Reyes National Seashore and the rest of the Point Reyes Peninsula , and instead heads towards, and then along, the eastern shore of Tomales Bay . Leaving Tomales Bay, SR 1 heads further inland to intersect with Valley Ford Road just north of

1938-477: Is hella good". The word can be casually used multiple times in multiple ways within a single sentence. Pop culture references to "hella" are common, as in the song " Hella Good " by the band No Doubt , which hails from southern California, and "Hella" by the band Skull Stomp, who come from northern California. California, like other Southwestern states, has borrowed many words from Spanish , especially for place names , food, and other cultural items, reflecting

2052-750: Is 100 km/h, with reductions when one passes through a densely populated area. The highways in New Zealand are all state highways, and the network consists of SH 1 running the length of both main islands, SH 2–5 and 10–58 in the North Island, and SH 6–8 and 60–99 in the South Island. National and provincial highways are numbered approximately north to south. State Highway 1 runs the length of both islands. Local highways ( Korean :  지방도 ; Hanja :  地方道 ; RR :  Jibangdo ; MR :  Chipangdo ) are

2166-490: Is a system of urban and state routes constructed and maintained by each Mexican state. The main purpose of the state networks is to serve as a feeder system to the federal highway system. All states except the Federal District operate a road network. Each state marks these routes with a white shield containing the abbreviated name of the state plus the route number. New Zealand state highways are national highways –

2280-505: Is an official National Scenic Byway . SR 1 is eligible to be included in the State Scenic Highway System ; however, only a few stretches between Los Angeles and San Francisco have officially been designated as a scenic highway, meaning that there are substantial sections of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the potential designation has gained popular favor with

2394-627: Is at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Dana Point in Orange County and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 101 (US 101) near Leggett in Mendocino County . SR 1 also at times runs concurrently with US 101, most notably through a 54-mile (87 km) stretch in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and across the Golden Gate Bridge . The highway is designated as an All-American Road . In addition to providing

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2508-521: Is divided into states and has state highways. For example, the longest highway in the state of São Paulo , the Rodovia Raposo Tavares , is designated as SP-270 and SP-295 . Canada is divided into provinces and territories, each of which maintains its own system of provincial or territorial highways, which form the majority of the country's highway network. There is also the national transcontinental Trans-Canada Highway system, which

2622-439: Is free to choose a different marker, and most states have. States may choose a design theme relevant to its state (such as an outline of the state itself) to distinguish state route markers from interstate, county, or municipal route markers. California English#Freeways California English (or Californian English ) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California . As California became one of

2736-473: Is locally known as The Fishhook due to its tight loop ramps that resemble a fishhook when viewed from above). After a short expressway section, it skirts downtown Santa Cruz as four-lane Mission Street, regaining the Cabrillo Highway designation (local/historic name is "Coast Road") after it leaves the city and continues north-west as a two-lane road (with occasional four-lane sections) up the coast through Davenport . Entering San Mateo County , SR 1 follows

2850-605: Is marked by distinct signs, but has no uniform numeric designation across the country. In the eastern provinces, for instance, an unnumbered (though sometimes with a named route branch) Trans-Canada route marker is co-signed with a numbered provincial sign, with the provincial route often continuing alone outside the Trans-Canada Highway section. However, in the western provinces, the two parallel Trans-Canada routes are consistently numbered with Trans-Canada route markers; as Highways 1 and 16 respectively. Canada also has

2964-741: Is nonexistent) from the Mobil Pier Undercrossing runs for 54 miles (87 km), passing through the City of Santa Barbara and its neighboring communities along the coast of Santa Barbara County. The route then turns away from the Gaviota Coast at Gaviota State Beach , avoiding Point Conception , and heads due north through Gaviota State Park and the Gaviota Tunnel . In Las Cruces , SR 1, now named Cabrillo Highway, splits again from US 101 and heads northwest to

3078-568: Is not a road class. The Strade Statali , abbreviated SS, is the Italian national network of state highways. The total length for the network is about 25.000 km (15.534 mi). The Italian state highway network are maintained by ANAS . From 1928 until 1946 state highways were maintained by Azienda Autonoma Statale della Strada (AASS). The next level of roads below Strada Statali is Strada Regionale ("regional roads"). The routes of some state highways derive from ancient Roman roads , such as

3192-530: Is one hypothesis; however, certain features of this accent are intensifying and spreading geographically. Other documented California English includes a "country" accent associated with rural and inland white Californians, which is also (to a lesser extent) affected by the California Vowel Shift; an older accent once spoken by Irish Americans in San Francisco ; and distinctly Californian varieties of Chicano English mainly associated with Mexican Americans . Research has shown that Californians themselves perceive

3306-411: Is the front of the mouth closer to the teeth, the right side of the chart being the back of the mouth). As with other vowel shifts, several vowels may be seen moving in a chain shift around the mouth. As one vowel encroaches upon the space of another, the adjacent vowel in turn experiences a movement in order to maximize phonemic differentiation . For convenience, California English will be compared with

3420-406: Is vested in the federal states of Germany. Most federal states use the term Landesstraße (marked with 'L'), while for historical reasons Saxony and Bavaria use the term Staatsstraße (marked with 'S'). The appearance of the shields differs from state to state. The term Land-es-straße should not be confused with Landstraße , which describes every road outside built-up areas and

3534-473: The GOOSE and GOAT vowels. Certain varieties of Chicano English are also native to California, sometimes even being spoken by non-Latino Californians. One example is East Los Angeles Chicano English, which has been influenced by both Californian and African American Vernacular English . The coastal urban accent of California traces many of its features back to Valleyspeak : a social dialect arising in

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3648-729: The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve . PCH then continues along the coast into Seal Beach , the final city on its journey in Orange County. PCH enters Los Angeles County and the city of Long Beach after crossing the San Gabriel River . SR 1 then continues northwest through the city to its junction with Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19) and Los Coyotes Diagonal at the Los Alamitos Circle , more than 2 miles (3.2 km) from

3762-492: The California Vowel Shift , was first noted by linguists in the 1980s in southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California . This helped to define an accent emerging primarily among youthful, white, urban, coastal speakers, and popularly associated with the valley girl and surfer dude youth subcultures . The possibility that this is, in fact, an age-specific variety of English

3876-825: The California Western Railroad . North of Fort Bragg as a two-lane highway again, SR 1 passes MacKerricher State Park and the towns of Cleone and Inglenook before crossing Ten Mile River . After passing Westport-Union Landing State Beach , the road goes through a series of redwood-forested switchbacks before reaching Rockport . North of Rockport, the highway turns away from the Lost Coast to avoid steep and unstable highlands created by Mendocino triple junction uplift. The highway follows Cottaneva Creek inland through redwood-forested mountainous terrain before terminating at US 101 just outside Leggett . SR 1 has become famous worldwide, but

3990-614: The Great Depression , the paved two-lane road was completed and opened on June 17, 1937. The road was initially called the Carmel-San Simeon Highway (Route 56), but was better known as the Roosevelt Highway, honoring the current President Franklin D. Roosevelt . A 1921 law extended Route 56 south over the county road to Cambria . Route 60, from Oxnard via the coast to San Juan Capistrano ,

4104-750: The Sonoma County border. It then rejoins the coast in Bodega Bay , where its name changes to Coast Highway past the Sonoma Coast State Beaches . After bridging the Russian River at Jenner , SR 1 continues to wind along the rugged coast to Fort Ross , Salt Point State Parks , and the planned community of Sea Ranch . SR 1 then crosses the Gualala River and enters Mendocino County . The highway enters

4218-626: The Strada statale 7 Via Appia , which broadly follows the route of the Roman road of the same name . Other examples are the Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia ( Via Aurelia ) and the Strada statale 4 Via Salaria ( Via Salaria ). Since the reforms following the birth of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, the State took charge of the construction and maintenance of a primary network of roads for connections between

4332-542: The Ventura River and Carpinteria had been an unimproved route along small alluvial fan beaches that skirted coastal bluff rock outcroppings at low tide. Construction of the Southern Pacific Coast Line railroad had created a road flanked by riprap along this area. In order to make this part of the first coastal route for motorists driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles , they paved

4446-547: The close central rounded vowel [ʉ] or close front rounded vowel [y] for /u/ are widespread in Californian speech, the same high degree of fronting for /oʊ/ is found predominantly among young speakers. The effects of the California vowel shift have been noted in varieties of Californian Spanish , particularly in the Bay Area . One dialect of English, mostly reported in California's rural interior, inland from

4560-401: The cot-caught merger . Other vowel changes, whose relation with the shift is uncertain, are also emerging: except before /l/ , /u/ is moving through [ ʉ ] towards [ y ] ( rude and true are almost approaching reed and tree , but with rounded lips), and /oʊ/ is moving beyond [əʊ] . /ʊ/ is moving towards [ ʌ ] (so that, for example, book and could in

4674-633: The historic beach route along the Rincon coast that was originally opened up by the construction of the Railroad Coastal Route from Emma Wood State Beach to the Mobil Pier Undercrossing near Sea Cliff , where it rejoins US 101 about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Santa Barbara County line near La Conchita . The US 101/SR 1 concurrency (although actual signage mentioning SR 1 through this segment

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4788-532: The nonstandard accents of the South Midland and Southern United States, speakers of such towns as Redding and Merced have been found to use the word anymore in a positive sense and the verb was in place of the standard English plural verb were . Related other features of note include the pin–pen merger , fill–feel merger , and full–fool merger . The Great Depression 's westward Dust Bowl migrations of settlers into California from

4902-697: The 1980s among a particular white youthful demographic in the San Fernando Valley , including Los Angeles . Boontling is a jargon or argot spoken in Boonville, California , with only about 100 speakers today. The popular image of a typical southern California speaker often conjures up images of the so-called Valley girls popularized by the 1982 hit song by Frank and Moon Zappa , or " surfer-dude " speech made famous by movies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High . While many phrases found in these extreme versions of California English from

5016-560: The 1980s may now be considered passé, certain words such as awesome , totally , for sure , harsh , gnarly , and dude have remained popular in California and have spread to a national, even international, level. A common example of a northern Californian colloquialism is hella (from "(a) hell of a (lot of)", and the euphemistic alternative hecka ) to mean "many", "much", "so" or "very". It can be used with both count and mass nouns. For example: "I haven't seen you in hella long"; "There were hella people there"; or "This guacamole

5130-542: The Cabrillo Highway in 1959, after the explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo who sailed along the coast line. The legislature also designated the route as the Shoreline Highway in 1957 between the Manzanita Junction near Marin City and Leggett . Smaller segments of the highway have been assigned several other names by the state and municipal governments. For the most part, SR 1 runs parallel to

5244-640: The Cabrillo Highway turns northwest back towards the coast to Guadalupe . It enters San Luis Obispo County , avoiding the immediate coastline of the protected Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes , before passing through Grover Beach and subsequently joining US 101 for the third time at Pismo Beach . The US 101/SR 1 concurrency then avoids the immediate coastline of Avila Beach and Diablo Canyon Power Plant , and instead heads straight inland to San Luis Obispo . SR 1 splits from US 101 at Santa Rosa Street in San Luis Obispo and then resumes as

5358-464: The California dialect start to sound, to a GA speaker, more like buck and cud ), /ʌ/ is moving through [ ɜ ] , sometimes approaching [ ɛ ] ( duck, crust, what, etc. are sounding like how U.S. Southerners pronounce them, or like how other Americans might pronounce deck, crest, wet, etc.). New vowel characteristics of the California shift are increasingly found among younger speakers. For example, while some characteristics such as

5472-558: The City and County of San Francisco , SR 1 splits from Interstate 280, where the road becomes Junipero Serra Boulevard . Shortly thereafter, the highway makes a slight left, becoming the six-lane wide 19th Avenue ; the San Francisco Municipal Railway 's M Ocean View streetcar line runs in the median from this point until a junction to a rail only right-of-way near Rossmoor Drive. SR 1 then turns into Park Presidio Boulevard after it passes through

5586-1099: The Legislature by state law named SR 1 "Pacific Coast Highway" in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, "Cabrillo Highway" from Santa Barbara north to San Francisco, and "Shoreline Highway" from Marin County to its northern terminus. Many cities, however, did not change the name of city streets that are part of SR 1, such as Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and El Segundo; and Junipero Serra and Park Presidio boulevards in San Francisco. Several other cities and communities like Newport Beach and Bodega Bay merely named their respective city streets as "Coast Highway". The freeway portion of SR 1 from Highway 68 in Monterey to Munras Avenue opened in 1956–1960. The segment from Munras Avenue to

5700-697: The Los Angeles metro area, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco metro area is part of the National Highway System , a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration . The California State Legislature has also relinquished state control of segments within Dana Point , Newport Beach , Santa Monica , and Oxnard ; those segments are now maintained by those respective municipalities. The Big Sur section from San Luis Obispo to Carmel

5814-498: The Mission District in the late 19th century. It is today spoken only by some of the oldest Irish American and possibly Jewish residents of the city. From before the 1870s to the 1890s, Irish Americans were the largest share of migrants coming to San Francisco, the majority arriving by way of Northeastern U.S. cities like New York and Boston , thus bringing those cities' ways of speaking with them. In San Francisco,

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5928-452: The Mission District quickly became a predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood, and its local dialect became associated with all of San Francisco as a way to contrast it with the rest of California. Sounding like a "real San Franciscan" therefore once meant sounding "like a New Yorker", the speakers said to "talk like Brooklynites". Other names included the "south of the Slot" (referring to

6042-576: The National Highway or National Route systems are marked under the State Route system. They can be recognised by blue shield markers. They were practically adopted in all states by the end of the 1980s, and in some states, some less important National Routes were downgraded to State Routes. Each state has or had its own numbering scheme, but do not duplicate National Route numbers in the same state, or nearby routes in another state. As with

6156-475: The National Routes and National Highways, State Routes are being phased out in most states and territories in favour of alphanumeric routes. However, despite the fact that Victoria has fully adopted alphanumeric routes in regional areas, state route numbers are still used extensively within the city of Melbourne as a part of its Metropolitan Route Numbering Scheme . Brazil is another country that

6270-658: The Pacific Coast Highway (commonly referred to as "PCH", without the definite article "the", unlike other freeway numbers in the Los Angeles area ). Between US 101 at the Las Cruces junction (8 miles [13 km] south of Buellton ) and US 101 in Pismo Beach , and between US 101 in San Luis Obispo and Interstate 280 in San Francisco, the legislature also designated SR 1 as

6384-507: The Southern California, freeways are often referred to either by name or by route number but with the addition of the definite article "the", such as " the 405 North", " the 99 " or " the 605 (Freeway) ". This usage has been parodied in the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch " The Californians ". In contrast, typical Northern California usage omits the definite article. When Southern California freeways were built in

6498-565: The Southern United States, namely from Oklahoma , Texas , Missouri , and Arkansas , is the presumable cause of this rural white accent's presence in California's Central Valley . Rural northern California was also settled by Oklahomans and Arkansans, though perhaps more recently in the 1970s and 1980s, due to the region's timber industry boom . However, even in a single town, any given individual's identification with working and playing outdoors versus indoors appears to be

6612-668: The Theodore Roosevelt Highway) hosted part of the road cycling events . Portions of SR 1 have also hosted stages of the Tour of California . California's coastline is constantly changing and continually presents us with challenges. Through hard work and determination, we continue to keep this scenic highway open. Frequent landslides and erosion along the coast have caused portions of SR 1 to either be closed for long periods of time, or be re-routed entirely. Some of these include: In 2014, Caltrans relinquished

6726-409: The Victorian community of Mendocino . Continuing north, SR 1 crosses Russian Gulch State Park on the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge , and passes through the town of Caspar . It passes through a roundabout just south of the intersection with the western terminus of SR 20 , where it widens to two lanes, then bridges the Noyo River at Noyo , becomes Main Street of Fort Bragg , and crosses

6840-507: The Western United States. A few phonological processes have been identified as being particular to urban and coastal California English. However, these vowel changes are by no means universal in Californian speech, and any single Californian's speech may only have some or none of the changes identified below. These sounds might also be found in the speech of some people from areas outside of California. One topic that has begun to receive much attention from scholars in recent decades has been

6954-420: The adoption of the word hapa (itself originally a Hawaiian borrowing of English "half" ) to mean someone of mixed European/Islander or Asian/Islander heritage. In 1958, essayist Clifton Fadiman pointed out that northern California is the only place (besides England and the area surrounding Ontario and the Canadian Prairies ) where the word chesterfield is used as a synonym for sofa or couch . In

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7068-407: The area, with no connection to the other side of the Santa Lucia Mountains except for Nacimiento-Fergusson Road . The road briefly leaves the coast for a few miles, passing through a redwood forest in the Big Sur River valley. The Big Sur segment of the highway, built between 1919 and 1937, also crosses a number of historic bridges, including the scenic Bixby Bridge , a reinforced concrete arch with

7182-445: The cable car track running down Market Street) or "south of Market" accent. Pronunciation features of this accent included: Overall, starting in the later half of the 20th century, San Francisco has been undergoing dialect levelling towards the broader regional Western American English , for example: younger Mission District speakers now exhibit a full cot–caught merger, show the vowel shift of urban coastal Californians, and front

7296-404: The cities of the Central Valley , Route 128 in Massachusetts, or parts of Route 101 in New Hampshire). Each state has its own system for numbering and its own marker. The default marker is a white circle containing a black sans serif number (often inscribed in a black square or slightly rounded square), according to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). However each state

7410-416: The city center. After leaving Dana Point, Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) becomes simply "Coast Highway" while at the same time continuing northwest along the coast through Laguna Beach (where it meets the southern terminus of SR 133 ) and Crystal Cove State Park . SR 1 then enters Newport Beach and passes through several affluent neighborhoods, including Newport Coast and Corona Del Mar , spans

7524-428: The city of Lompoc . It is briefly joined with SR 246 along Lompoc's east-west Ocean Avenue, before turning north as H Street to Harris Grade Road, where it then regains the Cabrillo Highway name. After reaching the main entrance to Vandenberg Space Force Base , SR 1 turns northeast, away from the immediate coastline of the base, to join SR 135 . Route 135 then splits from Route 1 south of Orcutt , and

7638-551: The city of Point Arena , in which it becomes Main Street, before following School Street to the northwest and then becoming Shoreline Highway once again. It bridges the Garcia River and then, near Elk , the Navarro River , where it meets SR 128 . At the town of Albion , the Albion River is spanned by the Albion River Bridge , the only remaining wooden trestle bridge on the highway. SR 1 then passes through Little River and Van Damme State Park , crosses Big River and passes through Mendocino Headlands State Park and

7752-421: The city's Golden Gate Park . Then after entering the Presidio of San Francisco , it goes through the MacArthur Tunnel before joining US 101 for a fourth time on the approach to the Golden Gate Bridge known as Doyle Drive. After crossing the bridge and entering Marin County , SR 1 then splits from US 101 again near Marin City , where it leaves the city and, as the Shoreline Highway, returns to

7866-402: The coast, separated from Downtown Santa Monica by the palisades north of Santa Monica Pier ; this portion is also known locally as Palisades Beach Road and formerly as Roosevelt Highway. Upon leaving Santa Monica, PCH continues to follow the coast, curving west through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles before becoming the main thoroughfare of the city of Malibu while traversing

7980-412: The coast. From the traffic circle, it continues inland west through Long Beach, including approximately one mile adjacent to the southern boundary of Signal Hill . PCH is marked as such in Long Beach, but originally bore the name of Hathaway Avenue east of the traffic circle and State Street west of there. PCH then passes through the Los Angeles districts of Wilmington and Harbor City . While bypassing

8094-508: The coastal mountains made this stretch of coastline too costly for highway builders to establish routes through the area. In 1984, SR 1 was then re-routed to replace State Highway 208, connecting Rockport and Leggett, while the segment between Ferndale and Fernbridge was renumbered as State Highway 211 . Most of the coastline in the area is now part of Sinkyone Wilderness State Park and the King Range National Conservation Area . The roadway along Devil's Slide , south of Pacifica , became

8208-418: The coastline, or close to it, but does turn several miles inland at various locations to avoid several federally controlled or protected areas such as Vandenberg Space Force Base , Diablo Canyon Power Plant and Point Reyes National Seashore . In addition to connecting the coastal cities and communities along its path, the route provides access to beaches, parks, and other attractions along the coast, making it

8322-569: The community. The entire route is designated as a Blue Star Memorial Highway to recognize those in the United States armed forces; this designation is sponsored by the California Garden Clubs, but the organization has not erected such markers along SR 1 yet. In 1959, the legislature officially designated the segment in Southern California between Interstate 5 (I-5) in Dana Point and US 101 near Oxnard as

8436-618: The crossing in ten years. An overpass has been planned at that site for almost two decades, but funding has not been available in Ventura County for the estimated $ 35 million grade separation project. On July 12, 2023, the Ventura County Transportation Commission and the City of Oxnard received $ 15 million in state funding to build an overpass. The project is estimated to be completed by the fall of 2027. State highway Roads maintained by

8550-642: The elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Light Station . SR 1 provides access to Hearst Castle in San Simeon in Northern San Luis Obispo County. SR 1 then enters the Big Sur region, crossing San Carpóforo Creek just south of the Monterey County line. For about 72 miles (116 km) from San Carpóforo Creek to Malpaso Creek , the road winds and hugs the cliffs of Big Sur, passing various coastal parks in

8664-403: The emergence of a vowel-based chain shift in California. The image in this section illustrates the California vowel shift on a vowel chart . The vowel space of the image is a cross-section (as if looking at the interior of a mouth from a side profile perspective); it is a rough approximation of the space in a human mouth where the tongue is located in articulating certain vowel sounds (the left

8778-678: The entire 21 miles (34 km) of that city. SR 1 crosses the county line and continues through the Ventura County portion of the Malibu coast through Leo Carrillo State Park and Point Mugu State Park . After passing through a notch in the promontory that marks Point Mugu , the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains , and the beginning of the Oxnard Plain . The road cut left a very large rock formation at

8892-585: The entrance to the Upper Newport Bay , which marks the boundary between East Coast Highway and West Coast Highway, and crosses California State Route 55 near its southern terminus. Upon crossing the Santa Ana River mouth and entering Huntington Beach , SR 1 regains the Pacific Coast Highway designation. It passes Huntington State Beach and the southern terminus of California State Route 39 before reaching Bolsa Chica State Beach and

9006-458: The freeway had bypassed it in about 1960. Then in 1988, the segment from Purisima Road in Lompoc to SR 135 was re-routed from Harris Grade Road to the former County Route S20 so it could directly serve Vandenberg Air Force Base . Construction to bridge the gap in the Lost Coast region between Rockport and Ferndale was eventually abandoned. The steepness and related geotechnical challenges of

9120-600: The freeway heads north along the coast of Monterey Bay through Sand City , Seaside , and Marina . At the interchange with SR 156 near Castroville , SR 1 continues north as a two-lane rural road to Moss Landing . SR 1 becomes a freeway once again just before entering into Santa Cruz County . This four-lane freeway continues up the Monterey Bay coast through Watsonville to its interchange with SR 17 in Santa Cruz . (This trumpet interchange

9234-610: The gaps in Route 56 north of San Francisco, these additions completed the coastal highway, with other sections formed by Routes 1, 2, and 71 . The section of SR 1 from Santa Monica to Oxnard, via Malibu, went out to contract in 1925 as "Coast Boulevard", but was designated "Theodore Roosevelt Highway" when it was dedicated in 1929. Before the completion of its present alignment in 1937, a narrow, winding, steep road known as Pedro Mountain Road connected Montara with Pacifica. That highway

9348-474: The highway was signed as several other routes prior to 1964. When the road was first envisioned in the World War I era, California highways were referred to by either a highway name or a route number. The route numbers were used by state highway planners and the Legislature from 1915 until 1964, but were never posted on highways, referred to by the auto clubs or public, nor used on maps. The SR 1 designation

9462-402: The immediate coastline of Palos Verdes , SR 1 continues to head west into the cities of Lomita and Torrance along the route of the former Redondo-Wilmington Boulevard. PCH then turns north through Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach . Upon entering Manhattan Beach , it becomes Sepulveda Boulevard and turns back into PCH designation through El Segundo . At Imperial Highway, it regains

9576-640: The interchange with SR 156 and the short, 2-lane Castroville Bypass opened in 1976. Originally SR 1 followed the SR ;156 alignment to the SR ;183 intersection in Castroville, then turned northwest, following the present-day SR 183 through Castroville before rejoining its existing alignment at the northern terminus of the Castroville Bypass. Plans to upgrade SR 1 to

9690-574: The linguistic heritage of the Californios as well as more recent immigration from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. High concentrations of various ethnic groups throughout the state have contributed to general familiarity with words describing (especially cultural) phenomena. For example, a high concentration of Asian Americans from various cultural backgrounds, especially in urban and suburban metropolitan areas in California, has led to

9804-541: The main cities; in 1865 the Lanza law introduced the classification of roads between national, provincial and municipal (see Annex F, art.10) and the Royal Decree of 17 November 1865, n. 2633 listed the first 38 national roads. Italian state highways are identified by a number and a name. In road signs and maps the number is preceded by the acronym SS, an acronym for strada statale ("state road"). The nomenclature of

9918-536: The major coastal cities, has been popularly described as a "country," "hillbilly," or "twang" variety. This California English variety is reminiscent of and presumably related to Southern or South Midland U.S. accents , mostly correlated with white, outdoors-oriented speakers of the Central Valley . It has been studied even as far north as Trinity County but could possibly extend farther, and as far south as Kern County (metropolitan Bakersfield). Similar to

10032-547: The most ethnically diverse U.S. states , English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds began to pick up different linguistic elements from one another and also developed new ones; the result is both divergence and convergence within California English. Overall, linguists who studied English before and immediately after World War II tended to find few, if any, patterns unique to California. While California English continues to evolve, today it still falls within

10146-562: The name Sepulveda Boulevard as it descends and passes under two runways of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) via the Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel . After leaving LAX, SR 1 splits from Sepulveda and turns northwest, becoming Lincoln Boulevard and passing through the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Westchester , Playa Vista , and Venice , as well as the unincorporated community of Marina Del Rey . This portion of SR 1 suffers heavy congestion at most times due to

10260-482: The next important roads under the National highways . The number has two, three, or four digits. Highways with two-digit numbers routes are called State-funded local highways. State roads ( Turkish : Devlet yolu ) are primary roads, mostly under the responsibility of General Directorate of Highways (KGM) except in metropolitan city centers where the responsibility falls into the local government. The roads have

10374-487: The north, Route 56 was continued along the coast from Carmel through Santa Cruz to San Francisco . Several discontinuous pieces were added north of San Francisco, one from Route 1 (US 101) north of the Golden Gate to the county line near Valley Ford , another from the Russian River near Jenner (where the new Route 104 ended) to Westport , and a third from Ferndale to Route 1 near Fernbridge . Except for

10488-431: The northern border of Sand City and Seaside opened in 1968, and bypasses the original highway alignment of Munras Avenue and Fremont Street in Monterey, and Fremont Boulevard through Seaside. North of Seaside, the freeway was built over the original SR 1 alignment through Fort Ord in 1973. North of Fort Ord, SR 1 now veers to the left of the original alignment and bypasses Marina to the west. This segment including

10602-594: The northern coast were finally filled in by the Legislature in 1951, though the State Department of Public Works was not required to maintain the newly added portions immediately. A connection from near Rockport to Legislative Route 1 (signed US 101) at Leggett was also added to the Legislative Route 56 definition, as the existing county road north from Rockport to Ferndale had not yet been paved . The state Legislature in 1963 tossed out

10716-441: The old conflicting Legislative Route Numbers ( 1964 renumbering ), got rid of some famous old U.S. routes, and renumbered many state highways. It abolished US 101A in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and renumbered it as SR 1. The Rockport to Leggett connection then became State Route 208. The cover of "California Highways" magazine in fall 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu. The same year,

10830-472: The parallel Del Prado Avenue. SR 1 has never been planned to extend south into San Diego , or north into Crescent City , where I-5 (which replaced the US ;101 designation and signage between Los Angeles and San Diego) and US 101 serve as the coastal highways in those areas, respectively. For the 1932 Summer Olympics , the segment of the SR 1 between Oxnard and Santa Monica (then known as

10944-519: The portion of SR 1 in Oxnard along Oxnard Boulevard. The plan is then for PCH between Pleasant Valley Road and US 101 to be re-routed from Oxnard Boulevard onto Rice Avenue. That segment of Rice Avenue includes a railroad grade crossing at 5th Avenue that was the site of the February 2015 Oxnard train derailment , which eventually led to one death and 29 injuries. This was the twelfth accident at

11058-737: The proposed tunnel. Then on November 5, 1996, San Mateo County voters approved Measure T to change the county's official preference from the bypass to the tunnel. Ground eventually broke in 2005, and the Tom Lantos Tunnels opened in April 2013. In 2014, two-way traffic was restored along the original PCH segment from Copper Lantern to Blue Lantern streets in the Dana Point city center after 25 years of one-way operation. During that period, only northbound traffic had flowed along this section of PCH while southbound traffic had been diverted onto

11172-680: The road and built wooden causeways where the route flooded from the ocean waves. Local funding ran out, but the newly formed State Highway Commission took over and completed the road in 1913. One of the most difficult routes to build was along the Big Sur coast. The state first approved building Route 56, or the Carmel-San Simeon Highway, to connect Big Sur to the rest of California in 1919. Federal funds were appropriated and in 1921 voters approved additional state funds. San Quentin State Prison set up three temporary prison camps to provide unskilled convict labor to help with road construction. One

11286-616: The shortage of alternate north-south arterial roads west of Interstate 405 . It then enters the city of Santa Monica , where SR 1 turns southwest, merging onto the westernmost segment of the Santa Monica Freeway . Passing through the McClure Tunnel (which also serves as the national western terminus of Interstate 10 ), SR 1 emerges along the beachfront in Santa Monica as PCH again and continues along

11400-400: The site of frequent deadly crashes and roadway-closing landslides . Beginning in 1958, Caltrans supported a plan to construct an inland bypass over Montara Mountain as an alternate route, but was eventually opposed by community and environmental groups who supported a tunnel instead. After decades of legal disputes, the Federal Highway Administration ordered Caltrans in 1995 to re-evaluate

11514-520: The southern terminus of SR 1 at Interstate 5 in Orange County). Route 56 was extended further south from Cambria to connect to present-day US 101 in San Luis Obispo in 1931. The route from San Simeon to Carmel (connecting with existing county highways at each end) was one of two sections designated as SR 1. It and Route 60 were intended as links in a continuous coastal roadway from Oregon to Mexico , A large expansion of

11628-476: The state highway system in 1933 resulted in Route 56 being extended in both directions. To the south, a second section was added, beginning at Pismo Beach on US 101 (Route 2) and heading south through Guadalupe and Lompoc to rejoin US 101 at a junction called Los Cruces (sic), just north of Gaviota Pass. (A short piece near Orcutt and Los Alamos had been part of Route 2, which originally followed present SR 135 from Los Alamos to Santa Maria.) To

11742-640: The state highways managed by ANAS generally follows the SS n scheme, where n is a number ranging from 1 ( Aurelia ) up to 700 (of the Royal Palace of Caserta ) depending on the date of establishment of the state highway. Newly built ANAS roads, not yet classified, are identified by the acronym NSA, an acronym for nuova strada ANAS ("new ANAS road"). State highways can be technically defined as main extra-urban roads (type B road) or as secondary extra-urban roads (type C road). State highways that cross towns with

11856-609: The surface street, Rice Avenue, towards the interchange with US 101. The historic route along Oxnard Boulevard was relinquished in 2014. Truck traffic to and from the Port of Hueneme also uses this designated route at the Rice Avenue/Hueneme Road connector to connect with Route 101 at the Rice Avenue Interchange. After traveling through Ventura , SR 1 separates from US 101 to travel

11970-522: The tip of the point that is called the Mugu Rock. At that point, PCH leaves the coast and heads north, and then northwest as a freeway along the northeastern boundary of Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu for several miles to an interchange at Rice Avenue, Pleasant Valley Road, and Oxnard Boulevard in Oxnard . The reconstructed interchange at Rice Avenue and Pleasant Valley Road channels traffic north on

12084-729: The west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula , passing by the marine mammal colonies at Año Nuevo State Park , and the historic Pigeon Point Lighthouse , before reaching Half Moon Bay . Between Half Moon Bay and Pacifica , the highway bypasses a treacherous stretch known as Devil's Slide via the Tom Lantos Tunnels . SR 1 then becomes a freeway once again at Sharp Park in Pacifica before turning inland to join Interstate 280 in Daly City . Just short of reaching

12198-530: The word "state" in this sense means "government" or "public" (as in state housing and state schools ), not a division of a country. New Zealand's state highway system is a nationwide network of roads covering the North Island and the South Island . As of 2006, just under 100 roads have a "State Highway" designation. The NZ Transport Agency administers them. The speed limit for most state highways

12312-473: Was completed in 1914 and provided competition to the Ocean Shore Railroad , which operated between San Francisco and Tunitas Creek from 1907 to 1920. SR 1 also used to run along the coast between Pacifica and Daly City, but this segment was damaged and rendered unusable after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on March 22, 1957. A small stub remains near Thornton Beach . Route 56 along Big Sur

12426-499: Was extended from Oxnard to El Rio (midway to Ventura, now the site of the Oxnard Boulevard interchange with US 101 ), in 1925. At Point Mugu , a path for the highway was cut through the mountains using surplus World War I explosives, thus creating Mugu Rock. The 1921 legislation, in theory, made Route 60 a continuous coastal loop, with both ends at what became US 101 in Oxnard and at Capistrano Beach (since 1964

12540-512: Was first assigned in 1939. Various portions of SR 1 have been posted and referred to by various names and numbers over the years. State construction of what became SR 1 started after the state's third highway bond issue passed before 1910. Eager for a direct coastal route between Ventura and Santa Barbara , civic boosters used locally raised funds to begin building the Rincon Sea Level Road in 1911. The route between

12654-739: Was incorporated into the state highway system and re-designated as SR 1 in 1939. The section of road along the Big Sur Coast was declared the first State Scenic Highway in 1965, and in 1966 the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson , led the official designation ceremony at Bixby Bridge . The route was designated as an All American Road by the US Government. SR 1 signs first went up after California decided to number its highways, in 1934. The section for Humboldt , Mendocino , Sonoma , Marin , San Francisco , San Mateo , Santa Cruz , Monterey , San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties

12768-469: Was not until the 1964 state highway renumbering that the entire route was officially designated as SR 1. Although SR 1 is a popular route for its scenery, frequent landslides and erosion along the coast have caused several segments to be either closed for lengthy periods for repairs, or re-routed inland. SR 1 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System , and through

12882-498: Was posted as SR 1, that section of the road known Route 56 (Las Cruces to Fernbridge). For Ventura , Los Angeles and Orange counties, Route 60 (San Juan Capistrano to the Oxnard area) became SR 3, and a few SR 3 signs were actually posted. The SR 3 signs were replaced by US 101 Alt. shields by 1936, as the road was built out; this change also allowed the extension of US 66 to end at another U.S. Route, in Santa Monica. The gaps of non-state highway along

12996-499: Was set up by Little Sur River , one at Kirk Creek and a third was later established in the south at Anderson Creek . Inmates were paid 35 cents per day and had their prison sentences reduced in return. The route necessitated construction of 33 bridges, the largest of which was the Bixby Bridge . Six more concrete arch bridges were built between Point Sur and Carmel. After 18 years of construction, aided by New Deal funds during

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