Interstate 8 in California

 

I-8
Get started San Diego
End Winterhaven
Length 172 mi
Length 277 km
Route
1 Mission Bay Drive2 → San Diego / Los Angeles

3 Taylor Street

4 → San Diego / Poway

5 Mission Center Road

6 → San Diego Bypass

7 → Las Vegas

8 Mission Gorge Road

9 Waring Road

10 College Avenue

11 Lake Murray Boulevard

12 Fletcher Parkway

13 Downtown La Mesa

14 → Chula Vista / El Cajon

15 El Cajon Boulevard

16 Main Street

17 → hello

18 Mollison Avenue

19 2nd Street

20 Main Street

22 Los Coches Road

23 Lake Jennings Park Road

27 Dunbar Lane

30 Tavern Road

33 Alpine

36 East Willows Road

40 Julian

45 Pine Valley

47 Sunrise Highway

51 Buckman Springs Road

54 Cameron Station

61 Live Oak Springs

65 Campo

73 Jacumba

77 In-Ko-Pah Road

80 Mountain Springs Road

87 Calexico

89 Ocotillo

101 Dunaway Road

107 Seeley

111 Forrester Road

114 El Centro

115 El Centro

116 Dogwood Road

118 Brawley

120 Bowker Road

125 Orchard Road

128 Bonds Corner Road

131 Holtville

143 Calexico

146 Brock Research Center Road

151 Gordon’s Well

156 Grays Well Road

159 Ogilby Road

164 Sidewinder Road

166 Andrade

170 Winterhaven

172 Winterhaven

Arizona state line → Yuma / Tucson

Interstate 8 or I -8 is an Interstate Highway in the US state of California. The highway is the southernmost east-west route in the state, running parallel and close to the Mexican border. At Seeley a height of 16 meters below sea level is reached. The highway runs through the sandy desert to Winterhaven, near the Arizona border. The route in California is 277 kilometers long.

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Travel directions

I-8 at San Diego.

I-8 at Descanso.

I-8 through the In-Ko-Pah Gorge east of San Diego. The lanes are more than 2 kilometers apart here.

I-8 in far eastern California.

The highway begins in San Diego, near the Sea World tourist attraction. Shortly after this you cross the Interstate 5, after which the highway has 2×4 lanes. San Diego has a special topography, due to the presence of small canyons and ravines in the city, some streets can be 100 meters higher than the adjacent streets. I-8 runs along such a precipice, with the adjacent residential area 70 meters higher as the crow flies just 100 meters. A little further one crosses the SR-163, the Cabrillo Freeway, which comes from the center. Traffic can also drive towards Las Vegas with this. The highway again runs along the canyons, crossing Interstate 805, which forms an eastern bypass. One passes by the Qualcomm Stadium, with a square kilometer parking lot surrounding it. Immediately after this one crosses Interstate 15, which runs from San Diego to Las Vegas and beyond. The highway then ascends to the eastern suburbs, entering the suburb of La Mesa. Here one crosses the SR-125, the South Bay Expressway, also the easternmost bypass of the conurbation. In this area there are many expensive houses on hills. After this you arrive in El Cajon, where you can take the SR-67, the San Vicente Freeway. Although people are now more or less leaving the agglomeration, the hills are still dotted with houses.

After 50 kilometers you leave the urban area for good, which is exchanged for the Cleveland National Forest. However, there are not many forests here, it mainly consists of steep hills with shrubs. One can see wind turbines, like so many places in southern California. The landscape becomes more and more a desert, and at one point the median strip is more than 2 kilometers wide. Here the Mexican border is only 2 kilometers away. After about 40 kilometers the desert ends abruptly, giving way to irrigated farmland of water from the nearby Salton Sea. This basin is located below sea level. The regional town of El Centro is also located in this area. To the south is Calexico, situated opposite Mexicali. The entire irrigated area is about 45 kilometers wide, and the I-8 runs almost straight through this. After this, the landscape abruptly changes into a desert again. One now enters the Sand Hills, a dune area in the desert, where many quads can be raced. This area is also known as the Imperial Sand Dunes. The highway runs less than 500 meters from the Mexican border in some spots. Just before Yuma, one crosses the Colorado River, passing Winterhaven, where theInterstate 8 in Arizona continues.

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History

I-8 was originally intended as US 80, a US Highway, from 1929 to 1964. The highway was signposted Interstate 8 from 1964. The first section of the highway opened in 1958 east of I-15. By 1961, the section through San Diego was largely completed, except for the westernmost section which opened in 1969. By 1970, the highway through what are now the eastern suburbs was completed. The section through the flat irrigated agricultural fields south of the Salton Sea was completed in 1967 and 1971. The highway to the Arizona border was completed in 1973. The last section to open was the mountainous section through the Cleveland National Forest, which opened in 1975.

Opening history

From Unpleasant Length Date
Exit 7 exit 8 2 km 00-00-1958
Exit 2B Exit 4 3 km 00-00-1959
Exit 4 Exit 7 5 km 00-00-1960
exit 8 Exit 10 3 km 00-00-1960
Exit 10 exit 13A 5 km 00-00-1961
Exit 13B Exit 20A 12 km 00-00-1961
exit 13A Exit 13B 1 km 00-00-1962
exit 80 Exit 87 12 km 04-05-1965
Exit 20A Exit 22 3 km 28-07-1965
Exit 22 Exit 27 8 km 20-06-1966
Exit 107 Exit 114 12 km 09-06-1967
Exit 114 Exit 118 6 km 31-07-1967
exit 61 exit 80 31 km 08-08-1967
Exit 87 Exit 107 32 km 05-12-1968
Exit 27 exit 33 10 km 22-05-1969
Exit 125 Exit 131 10 km 05-06-1969
Exit 1 Exit 2B 2 km 21-07-1969
exit 0 Exit 1 1 km 01-12-1969
Exit 131 Exit 166 56 km 17-08-1970
exit 33 Exit 40 12 km 07-10-1970
Exit 118 Exit 125 12 km 01-07-1971
Exit 166 Exit 172 10 km 18-05-1973
Exit 54 exit 61 12 km 23-01-1974
Exit 40 exit 47 12 km 25-11-1974
exit 47 Exit 54 13 km 07-07-1975

Traffic intensities

Exit Location 2007 2016
Exit 1 San Diego 44,000 48,000
Exit 2 San Diego ( I-5 ) 140,000 134,000
Exit 4 San Diego ( SR-163 ) 212,000 237,000
exit 6 San Diego ( I-805 ) 230,000 246,000
Exit 7 San Diego ( I-15 ) 248,000 247,000
Exit 14 LaMesa ( SR-125 ) 188,000 183,000
Exit 15 El Cajon 252,000 247,000
Exit 17 El Cajon ( SR-67 ) 183,000 148,000
Exit 19 El Cajon 121,000 116,000
Exit 40 descanso 26,000 22,000
Exit 89 ocotillo 13,000 13,000
Exit 116 El Centro 37,000 34,000
Exit 172 border with Arizona 17,000 18,000

Lane Configuration

I-8 through the In-Ko-Pah Grade.

From Unpleasant Lanes
exit 0 Exit 1 2×2
Exit 1 Exit 2 (I-5) 2×3
Exit 2 (I-5) Exit 14 2×4
Exit 14 Exit 15 2×5
Exit 15 Exit 17 2×4
Exit 17 Exit 20 2×3
Exit 20 Exit 170 2×2

Interstate 8 in California