State Route 57 in California

 

SR-57
Get started orange
End San Dimas
Length 24 mi
Length 39 km
Route
Orange city limits

1A Santa Ana Fwy

1 Garden Grove Fwy

1C La Veta Avenue

1D Chapman Avenue

1st Orangewood Avenue

Anaheim city limits

2 Katella Avenue

3 Ball Road

4 Lincoln Avenue

5 Riverside Fwy

6A Orangethorpe Avenue

Fullerton city limits

6B Chapman Avenue

7 Nutwood Avenue

8 Yorba Linda Boulevard

9 Imperial Highway

10 Lambert Road

11 Tonner Canyon Road

Diamond Bar city limits

13 Brea Canyon Road

14 Diamond Bar Boulevard

15 Pathfinder Road

16 Pomona Fwy

24B Grand Avenue

25 Pomona Fwy

18 Sunset Crossing Road

20 Temple Avenue

San Dimas city limits

21 San Bernardino Fwy

22C Chino Hills Fwy

22D Via Verde

24A Covina Boulevard

24B Arrow Highway

Glendora city limits

25A Auto Center Drive

25B Foothill Fwy

According to CITYPOPULATIONREVIEW.COM, State Route 57 or SR-57 is a state route in the U.S. state of California. SR-57 forms a north-south route in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, in Orange and Los Angeles County. The highway begins in Orange at the Orange Crush Interchange, and runs through several major suburbs to I-210 in San Dimas. The highway is also called Orange Freeway. The route is 39 kilometers long.

Travel directions

The highway begins at the Orange Crush Interchange, one of the largest interchanges around Los Angeles. Here one crosses Interstate 5, the Santa Ana Freeway, which runs from Los Angeles to San Diego, and SR-22, the Garden Grove Freeway, which runs from Garden Grove to Orange. Six connecting roads from these highways make up SR-57. The Orange Freeway forms the boundary between the city of Orange and the city of Anaheim here. Anaheim has 346,000 inhabitants, and Orange has 129,000 inhabitants. Parallel to the highway runs the Santa Ana River, which is canalised. The highway has 2×5 lanes, and passes by the Angel Stadium, a large stadium with a huge parking lot around it. This corridor has a large industrial estate on both sides. This section of SR-57 is very busy, with residents of the Inland Empire commuting daily to Orange and Anaheim.

On the north side of Anaheim, SR-91 intersects the Riverside Freeway, an important interchange because of the high traffic to and from the east. The highway connects Riverside to Long Beach. This leads to the town of Fullerton, which has a population of 126,000. The city is part of a 12-mile industrial estate that extends into Anaheim along SR-91. On the east side of the highway is the suburb of Placentia. The last town in Orange County is Brea, after which one crosses the uninhabited Puente Hills. One comes here in Los Angeles County, in the town of Diamond Bar. Here one crosses the SR-60, the Pomona Freeway, which are temporally double-numbered. After Diamond Bar you arrive in Pomona, a larger suburb with 161,000 inhabitants. A 4-tier interchange crosses Interstate 10, the San Bernardino Freeway, which runs from Los Angeles to Phoenix, and is one of the major east-west routes in the eastern suburbs. One eventually arrives at San Dimas, where SR-57 ends at I-210, the Foothill Freeway, which runs from Pasadena to San Bernardino.

History

According to ASK4BEAUTY, construction of the highway started in 1967 in Placentia. In 1969 the first section opened between Anaheim and Placentia, and then the highway was extended northward, closing the highway to San Dimas in 1972. In the 1970s, the highway was also extended southwards to I-5. The highway was completed in 1976.

There are plans to extend SR-57 to Huntington Beach over the Santa Ana River, an elevated highway to avoid massive demolitions of homes. The 18-kilometer viaducts would cost $950 million.

Widenings

Between January 2011 and May 2014, a 6-kilometer northbound lane was constructed between Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia and Lambert Avenue in Brea. Construction costs were $102 million. A 6th lane northbound between Katella Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim was constructed between January 2012 and November 2014, 5 kilometers away. The cost was $45 million.

Opening history

From Unpleasant Length Opening
Riverside Fwy Nutwood Avenue 3 km 02-06-1969
Pomona Fwy W Pomona Fwy E 3 km 05-05-1970
Nutwood Avenue Imperial Highway 4 km 03-06-1970
Pomona Fwy E Temple Avenue 3 km 09-12-1970
Via Verde I-210 5 km 21-06-1971
Imperial Highway Brea Canyon Road 4 km 20-09-1971
Brea Canyon Road Pomona Fwy 7 km 13-03-1972
Temple Avenue Via Verde 4 km 01-05-1972
Katella Avenue Riverside Fwy 5 km 14-01-1974
I-5 / Garden Grove Fwy Chapman Avenue 1 km 24-03-1976
Chapman Avenue Katella Avenue 2 km 24-03-1976

HOV

A large part of the Orange Freeway has HOV lanes, from the I-5 in Santa Ana to the SR-60 in Pomona over a length of almost 30 kilometers. Only the northernmost part of the highway has no HOV lanes.

History

The oldest portion of HOV lane is located in Orange County and opened in June 1992 between the Orange Crush Interchange from I-5 to Lambert Road in Brea, virtually the entire route through Orange County. On August 22, 1997, the rest of the HOV lanes opened from Brea to the Pomona Freeway (SR-60).

Traffic intensities

Exit Location 2008 2012 2016
Exit 1 Anaheim ( I-5 ) 220,000 246,000 244,000
Exit 5 Anaheim ( SR-91 ) 273,000 278,000 279,000
Exit 16 Diamond Bar ( SR-60 ) 202,000 198,000 208,000
Exit 18 Diamond Bar ( SR-60 ) 129,000 129,000 145,000
Exit 21 Pomona ( I-10 ) 169,000 167,000 171,000
Exit 25 San Dimas ( I-210 ) 152,000 148,000 151,000

State Route 57 in California