California State Route 1

For other uses, see CA1 (disambiguation).

State Route 1
Route information
Defined by S&HC § 301
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:	655.843 mi[1] (1,055.477 km) (broken into 5 pieces by U.S. Route 101)
Existed:	1934 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-5 in Dana Point
	I-10 in Santa Monica SR 34 in Oxnard SR 46 near Cambria SR 68 in Monterey SR 17 in Santa Cruz I-280 in Daly City SR 20 near Fort Bragg
North end:	US 101 near Leggett
Highway system
State highways in California(list • pre-1964) History • Unconstructed • Deleted • Freeway • Scenic ← I-980 SR 2 →

State Route 1 (SR 1), more often called Highway 1, is a state highway that runs along much of the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. It is famous for running along some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, leading to its designation as an All-American Road.

Highway 1 does not run over the entire Pacific coastline of California. It starts at Interstate 5 (I-5) near Dana Point in Orange County and runs north to U.S. Highway 101 (US 101) near Leggett in Mendocino County. Highway 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. It also serves as a scenic alternative in several locations; and a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and other coastal urban areas along its route.

Highway 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), the Cabrillo Highway, the Shoreline Highway, or the Coast Highway.

Route description

A BMW R1200GS along Highway 1 north of San Francisco. The highway is a popular travel route for motorcyclists.

Highway 1 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System^[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System.^[3] However, only a few stretches between Los Angeles and San Francisco have officially been designated as a scenic highway.^[4] The Big Sur section from San Luis Obispo to Carmel is an official National Scenic Byway.^[5]

The entire route is also designated as a Blue Star Memorial Highway to recognize those in the United States armed forces. In Southern California, the California Legislature has designated the segment between Interstate 5 (I-5) in Dana Point and US 101 near Oxnard as the Pacific Coast Highway (commonly referred to as "PCH"). Between U.S. 101 at the Las Cruces junction (8 miles south of Buellton) and U.S. 101 in Pismo Beach, and between U.S. 101 in San Luis Obispo and Interstate 280 in San Francisco, the legislature has designated State Highway 1 as the Cabrillo Highway, after Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. The legislature has also designated the route as the Shoreline Highway 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.^[6]

In addition to connecting the coastal cities and communities along its path, Highway 1 also provides access to numerous beaches, parks, and other attractions along the coast, making it a popular route for tourists. The route runs right besides the coastline, or close to it, for the most part, but it also turns several miles inland to avoid several federally-controlled or protected areas such as Vandenberg Air Force Base, Diablo Canyon Power Plant and Point Reyes National Seashore.

Orange County

Southbound PCH in Crystal Cove State Park near Laguna Beach

At its southernmost end in Orange County, Highway 1 terminates at I-5 in Capistrano Beach in Dana Point. It then travels north into the city center, where, for about 1 mile (1.6 km), northbound traffic continues along the original PCH alignment and southbound traffic is diverted onto the parallel Del Prado. After the two roads merge back, Highway 1 continues north along the coast through Laguna Beach and Crystal Cove State Park.

Highway 1 then enters Newport Beach, where it is known as simply Coast Highway. It passes through several affluent neighborhoods, including Newport Coast and Corona Del Mar, and spans the entrance to the Upper Newport Bay. Upon entering Huntington Beach, Highway 1 regains the Pacific Coast Highway designation. It passes Huntington State Beach before reaching Bolsa Chica State Beach and the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. PCH then continues along the coast into Seal Beach, the final city on its journey in Orange County.

Los Angeles and Ventura counties

PCH enters Los Angeles County and the city of Long Beach after crossing the San Gabriel River. Highway 1 then continues northwest through the city to its junction with Lakewood Boulevard (State Route 19) and Los Coyotes Diagonal at the Long Beach Traffic Circle, more than 2 miles (3.2 km) from 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 then passes through the Los Angeles districts of Wilmington and Harbor City. While bypassing the immediate coastline of Palos Verdes, Highway 1 continues to head west into the cities of Lomita and Torrance.

PCH then turns north through Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. Upon entering Manhattan Beach, it becomes Sepulveda Boulevard and continues through El Segundo and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), passing under two runways via the Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel.

Southbound SR 1 between Santa Monica and LAX.

After leaving LAX, State Highway 1 turns northwest, becoming Lincoln Boulevard and passing through the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Westchester, Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey, and Venice. It then enters the city of Santa Monica, where Highway 1 turns southwest, merging onto the final segment of the Santa Monica Freeway. Passing through the McClure Tunnel, Highway 1 emerges along the beachfront in Santa Monica and continues along the coast; it is known locally also as Palisades Beach Road and formerly as Roosevelt Highway. Upon leaving Santa Monica, it once again regains the name PCH as it follows the coast, curving west through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood before becoming Malibu's main thoroughfare, spanning the entire 21 miles (34 km) of that city.

PCH passes Mugu Rock at Point Mugu.

After leaving Malibu, Highway 1 crosses into Ventura County and continues along the coast through Point Mugu State Park to just beyond the park's western boundary. Approaching the Oxnard Plain, it passes through a notch in the mountain that forms Point Mugu. The road cut left a very large rock formation at 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. From there, Highway 1 continues northwest onto Oxnard Boulevard to Wooley Road, then heads due north further inland to US 101, where it begins its first concurrency with that U.S. Route.

After traveling through Ventura, Highway 1 separates from US 101 to travel along the beach from Emma Wood State Beach to the Mobil Pier Undercrossing, where it rejoins US 101 about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Santa Barbara County line near La Conchita.

Central Coast and Big Sur

Big Sur coastline. Bixby Creek Bridge near the outcropping of rocks which resembles a dinosaur, June, 1965

Looking south showing the McWay Rocks island group, about 16 miles south of Big Sur

The US 101/Highway 1 concurrency (although actual signage mentioning Highway 1 through this segment 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. Afterwards, Highway 1, now named Cabrillo Highway, splits again from US 101 north of the Gaviota Tunnel, and heads to the coastal city of Lompoc. It is briefly joined with Highway 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 Vandenberg Air Force Base, Highway 1 turns inland, northeast, to join Highway 135. Route 135 then splits from Route 1 south of Orcutt, and the Cabrillo Highway turns northwest back towards the coast to Guadalupe. It then enters San Luis Obispo County, passing through Grover Beach before joining US 101 for the third time at Pismo Beach.

View of the Pacific Ocean from the Bixby Creek Bridge

Highway 1 then splits from US 101 at San Luis Obispo and resumes as the Cabrillo Highway. It runs through Morro Bay as a freeway, where it crosses Morro Creek at the site of a prehistoric Chumash settlement dating to the Millingstone Horizon.^[7] From there, Highway 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 San Simeon and past the elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Light.

Highway 1 then enters the Big Sur region, crossing the San Carpoforo Creek just south of the Monterey County line. For about 90 miles (140 km) from the San Carpoforo Creek to the Carmel River, the road winds and hugs the cliffs of Big Sur, passing various coastal parks in the area. This segment of the highway, built between 1919 and 1937, also crosses several historic bridges, including the scenic Bixby Creek Bridge, a reinforced concrete arch with a 320-foot (98 m) span that passes over the Bixby Creek gorge, and the Rocky Creek Bridge.

Monterey Bay area

After crossing the Carmel River, Highway 1 runs along just outside the eastern boundary of Carmel before becoming a freeway in Monterey. The freeway then heads north along the coast of Monterey Bay through Sand City, Seaside, and Marina. At the interchange with Highway 156 near Castroville, Highway 1 continues north as a two-lane rural road to Moss Landing.

Highway 1 becomes a freeway once again just before entering into Santa Cruz County. This four-lane freeway continues up the Monterey Bay through Watsonville to its interchange with Highway 17 in Santa Cruz (the Highway 1/17 interchange is locally known as The Fishhook due to its tight loop ramps that resemble a fishhook when viewed from above). Upon reaching downtown Santa Cruz, it continues as Mission Street and Coast Road, before regaining the Cabrillo Highway name after it leaves the city and continues north as a two lane road up the coast.

San Francisco Bay area

Scene from SR 1 near Half Moon Bay

Entering San Mateo County, Highway 1 follows the west coast of the San Francisco Peninsula, passing by the marine mammal colonies at the Año Nuevo State Reserve, and the historic Pigeon Point Lighthouse, before reaching Half Moon Bay. Between Half Moon Bay and Pacifica, the highway travels through a treacherous stretch known as Devil's Slide, known for periodic landslides and closures.

The Golden Gate Bridge, which Route 1 shares with US 101

Highway 1 winds along the Marin County coast

Highway 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 the City and County of San Francisco, Highway 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. Highway 1 then turns into Park Presidio Boulevard after it passes through 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, Highway 1 then splits from US 101 again near Marin City, where it leaves the city and, as the Shoreline Highway, returns to a winding, two lane road as it passes over the Marin Hills to rejoin the coast at Muir Beach. Leaving the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the highway passes the Point Reyes National Seashore and Tomales Bay, eventually entering Sonoma County just south of Bodega Bay, where its name changes to Coast Highway past the Sonoma Coast State Beaches. After bridging the Russian River at Jenner, Highway 1 winds along the rugged coast to Fort Ross and Salt Point State Parks.

Mendocino County

Highway 1 crosses Russian Gulch State Park on the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge

Highway 1 then crosses the Gualala River and enters Mendocino County. The highway enters 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 Highway 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. Highway 1 then passes through Little River and Van Damme State Park, crosses Big River and passes through Mendocino Headlands State Park and the Victorian community of Mendocino. Continuing north, Highway 1 crosses Russian Gulch State Park on the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge, and passes through the town of Caspar. Just south of the intersection with State Highway 20, a roundabout is under construction at Simpson Lane.^[8][9] Highway 1 widens to two lanes at the western terminus of Highway 20, bridges the Noyo River at Noyo, and becomes Main Street of Fort Bragg, where it crosses the California Western Railroad.

North of Fort Bragg as a single-lane highway again, the highway passes MacKerricher State Park and the towns of Cleone and Inglenook before crossing Ten Mile River. At 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.

History

State construction of what is now Highway 1 started after the state's third highway bond issue passed in the 1900s – 1910s. At that time, California highways were not publicly referred to by any route numbers, and the Highway 1 name came about several years later. The legislature and Highway Department referred to roads either by a name or as "Legislative Route Numbers." The first two approved sections of what is now Highway 1 were Legislative Route 56 from San Simeon to Carmel (connecting with existing county highways at each end) and Legislative Route 60 from Oxnard via the coast to San Juan Capistrano, intended as links in a continuous coastal roadway from Oregon to Mexico.^[10][11] A 1921 law extended Legislative Route 56 south over the county road to Cambria,^[12] and Legislative Route 60 was extended from Oxnard to El Rio (midway to Ventura, now the site of the Oxnard Boulevard interchange with US 101) in 1925. The latter law, in theory, made Legislative Route 60 a continuous coastal loop, with both ends at what became US 101 in Oxnard and at Capistrano Beach (since 1964 the southern terminus of Highway 1 at Interstate 5 in Orange County).^[13] Legislative Route 56 was extended further south from Cambria to connect to present-day US 101 in San Luis Obispo in 1931.^[14]

A large expansion of the state highway system in 1933 resulted in Legislative Route Number 56 being extended in both directions. To the south, a second section was added, beginning at Pismo Beach on US 101 (Legislative 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 Legislative Route Number 2, which originally followed present Highway 135 from Los Alamos to Santa Maria.) To the north, Legislative Route Number 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 Legislative Route Number 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 the gaps in Legislative Route Number 56 north of San Francisco, these additions completed the coastal highway, with other sections formed by Legislative Route Numbers 1, 2, and 71.^[15][16]

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 was completed in 1914 and provided competition to the Ocean Shore Railroad, which operated between San Francisco and Tunitas Creek from 1907 to 1920. Highway 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.

California Highway 1 is a famous brand name around the world now, but California 1 was called several other names and numbers prior to 1964. When the road was first envisioned in the World War I era, it was referred to either by a highway name or by a "Legislative Route Number" or LRN. LRNs 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. Various portions of State Highway 1 have been posted and referred to by various names and numbers over the years. The section of Highway 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.

California Highway 1 signs first went up after California decided to number its highways, in 1934. But only the section from Santa Barbara County north was posted as Highway 1, that section of the road known Legislative Route Number 56 (Las Cruces to Fernbridge, including the gaps). In Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties, Legislative Route Number 60 (San Juan Capistrano to the Oxnard area) became California Highway 3, and a few Route 3 signs were actually posted.^[17] But the Route 3 signs were replaced by "U.S. Route 101 Alternate" shields and strips 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.^[18]

The gaps of non-state highway along 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 short connection from near Rockport to Highway 1 at Leggett was also included,^[19] as the existing county road north from Rockport to Ferndale had not yet been paved.^[20] The Leggett connection became State Route 208.^[21]

The state Legislature in 1963 tossed out the old conflicting Legislative Route Numbers (1964 renumbering), got rid of some famous old U.S. routes (like U.S. 66), and renumbered many state highways. It abolished US 101A in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and renumbered it as state Highway 1. The cover of "California Highways" magazine in fall 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu.^[22] The same year, the Legislature by state law named Highway 1 "Pacific Coast Highway" in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, and "Cabrillo Highway" from San Luis Obispo north to San Francisco. Many cities, however, did not change the name of city streets that are part of Highway 1, such as Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and El Segundo; Oxnard Boulevard in Oxnard; and Junipero Serra and Park Presidio boulevards in San Francisco.

The freeway portion of Highway 1 from Highway 68 in Monterey to Munras Avenue opened in 1960. The segment from Munras Avenue to 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 Highway 1 alignment through Fort Ord in 1973. North of Fort Ord, Highway 1 now veers to the left of the original alignment and bypasses Marina to the west. This segment including the interchange with Highway 156 and the short, 2-lane Castroville Bypass opened in 1976. Originally Highway 1 followed the Highway 156 alignment to the Highway 183 intersection in Castroville, then turned northwest, following the present-day Highway 183 through Castroville before rejoining its existing alignment at the northern terminus of the Castroville Bypass.

In 1980, another section was added northwest of Ventura, when several miles of the old two-lane alignment of US 101 were posted as Highway 1 where the freeway had bypassed it in about 1960. At its northern terminus, in 1984 State Highway 1 replaced State Highway 208, with the old alignment to Fernbridge, never constructed south of Ferndale, becoming State Highway 211.^[23] This part of the Pacific coast, the only long section in California not served by a state highway, has been termed California's "Lost Coast".

For the 1932 Summer Olympics, the segment of the Highway 1 between Oxnard and Santa Monica (then known as the Theodore Roosevelt Highway) hosted part of the road cycling events.^[24]

Maintenance

Frequent California landslides and erosion along the coast have caused portions of Highway 1 to either be closed for long periods of time, or be re-routed entirely. Some of these examples include:

• A segment right along the coast between Pacifica and Daly City in what is now Thornton Beach was damaged and rendered unusable after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake on March 22, 1957. Highway 1 was then eventually re-routed to turn inland to join Interstate 280.
• The Piedras Blancas Realignment Project plans to re-route the road up to 475 feet further inland to avoid the expected coastal erosion from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse to the Arroyo de la Cruz Bridge in San Luis Obispo County.^[25]
• The Devil's Slide area has also been prone to major landslides. One in 1995 caused the road to be closed for five months, while another in 2006 led to a four-month closure.^[26] A tunnel to bypass the area is scheduled to open by the end of 2011.^[27]
• Major reconstruction is also planned between Muir Beach and Stinson Beach, including the addition of a 523-foot-long, 20-foot-high, but mostly buried, retaining wall. This follows a four-month, $25 million reconstruction that repaired damage from a 2007 landslide.^[28]
• A March 2011 landslide in the Big Sur region forced the highway to be closed for several months.^[29][30]

Other future projects

There is a future plan to re-route Highway 1 in Oxnard. Once a new Rice Avenue-US 101 interchange is completed, PCH between Pleasant Valley Road and US 101 will be moved from Oxnard Blvd onto Rice.

Major intersections

Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

County	Location	Postmile [1][31][32]	Exit [33][34]	Destinations	Notes
Orange ORA R0.13-33.72	Dana Point	R0.13		Camino Las Ramblas	Continuation beyond I-5
		R0.13		I-5 (San Diego Freeway) – Los Angeles, San Diego	Interchange
		South end of freeway
		R0.78		Coast Highway south, Doheny Park Road – Capistrano Beach
		North end of freeway
		4.32		Crown Valley Parkway, Monarch Bay Drive
	Laguna Beach	9.42		SR 133 (Broadway Street) to Laguna Canyon Road
	Newport Beach			Newport Coast Drive to SR 73
		16.25		MacArthur Boulevard to I-405 – Long Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Ana	Former SR 73 north; serves John Wayne Airport
		17.43		Jamboree Road – Balboa Island
		19.80		SR 55 (Newport Boulevard) – Costa Mesa, Balboa Peninsula	Interchange
	Huntington Beach	22.09		Brookhurst Street – Fountain Valley
		23.74		SR 39 north (Beach Boulevard)
		25.89		Goldenwest Street	Interchangeably spelled Golden West Street
	Sunset Beach	29.89		Warner Avenue
	Seal Beach	32.72		Seal Beach Boulevard – Los Alamitos
Los Angeles LA 0.00-62.69	Long Beach			2nd Street
		1.97		SR 22 (7th Street)
		2.75		Anaheim Street, Los Altos Plaza
		3.56		Lakewood Boulevard, Los Coyotes Diagonal – Downey, Bellflower	Lakewood Boulevard was former SR 19 north
		6.26		Long Beach Boulevard
		7.29		I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) – Long Beach, Pasadena	Interchange
		8.27		SR 103 (Terminal Island Freeway) / Willow Street – Terminal Island	Interchange
	Los Angeles	8.43		2200-2400 East Pacific Coast Highway – Port of Los Angeles	Interchange
		9.25		Alameda Street (SR 47) via O Street	Interchange
		10.53		Avalon Boulevard
		11.61		I-110 (Harbor Freeway) – Los Angeles, San Pedro	Interchange
		12.17		Vermont Avenue
		12.52		Normandie Avenue
		13.10		SR 213 (Western Avenue)
	Torrance	14.63		Crenshaw Boulevard – Rolling Hills
		16.01		SR 107 north / CR N7 (Hawthorne Boulevard) – Inglewood, Palos Verdes Estates
	Redondo Beach	19.52		Torrance Boulevard
	Manhattan Beach	21.92		Artesia Boulevard, Gould Avenue	Artesia Boulevard was former SR 91 east
		22.90		Manhattan Beach Boulevard
		23.92		Rosecrans Avenue
	El Segundo
		24.91		El Segundo Boulevard
	Los Angeles	25.92		I-105 east (Century Freeway) / Imperial Highway – Norwalk	Interchange
		26.90		Century Boulevard – LAX Airport	Interchange
		27.36		LAX Airport (96th Street)	Interchange
				Sepulveda Boulevard	No left turn from SR 1 south
		28.50		Westchester Parkway	Interchange
		29.08		Manchester Avenue – Playa del Rey	Former SR 42 east
		31.29		SR 90 east (Marina Freeway)
		31.78		Washington Boulevard
		32.17		Venice Boulevard (SR 187 east) – Culver City, Venice
	Santa Monica	R34.58		I-10 east (Santa Monica Freeway) / SR 2 east (Lincoln Boulevard) – Los Angeles	Interchange
		South end of freeway
		North end of freeway
		35.18		Ocean Avenue	Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance; former SR 187 east
	Los Angeles	39.33		Sunset Boulevard
		40.77		SR 27 north (Topanga Canyon Boulevard)
	Malibu	48.17		CR N1 (Malibu Canyon Road)
		54.02		CR N9 north (Kanan Dume Road) to Ventura Freeway
		59.90		SR 23 north (Decker Canyon Road) – Thousand Oaks
		62.30		Mulholland Highway
Ventura VEN 0.00-43.62[N 1]	South end of freeway
		10.23	107	Las Posas Road – USN Point Mugu
		11.59	108	Wood Road – USN Point Mugu
		12.79	109	Hueneme Road
	Oxnard	13.59	110	Nauman Road	No entrance ramps to SR 1; no access across SR 1
		R14.67		Hueneme Road	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		North end of freeway
		15.06		Rice Avenue, Pleasant Valley Road
		South end of freeway
		15.93	113	Channel Islands Boulevard	Southbound exit is via Rose Avenue
		North end of freeway
		16.21		Rose Avenue	No left turns from SR 1
		17.63		Saviers Road, Wooley Road	Saviers Road was former SR 34 west
		18.15		SR 34 east (Fifth Street)
		20.14		SR 232 north (Vineyard Avenue) to US 101 south – Los Angeles
		21.08 22.73[N 1]		US 101 south (Ventura Freeway) / Oxnard Boulevard – Los Angeles	Interchange; south end of US 101 overlap
		South end of freeway on US 101
			63A	Ventura Road	Southbound exit only
	Ventura	R23.45[N 1]	63B	Johnson Drive – Montalvo	Signed as exit 63 northbound
		R24.65[N 1]	64	Victoria Avenue – Channel Island Harbor
		25.97[N 1]	65	Telephone Road
		26.39[N 1]	66A	SR 126 east (Santa Paula Freeway) – Santa Clarita	Signed as exit 66 southbound; no southbound entrance
		26.72[N 1]	66B	Main Street (US 101 Bus. north) – Ventura	No southbound exit
		28.45[N 1]	68	Seaward Avenue
		29.45[N 1]	69	Vista del Mar Drive, Sanjon Road	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		30.15[N 1]	70A	California Street, Ventura Avenue
		30.91[N 1]	70B	SR 33 north (Ojai Freeway) – Ojai	Former US 399
		31.50[N 1]	71	Main Street (US 101 Bus. south) – Ventura	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
	North end of freeway on US 101
	Solimar Beach	R32.70[N 1] 21.25		US 101 north (Ventura Freeway)	Interchange; northbound exit and southbound entrance; north end of US 101 overlap
	Seacliff	27.68 R38.98[N 1]		US 101 south (Ventura Freeway) – Los Angeles	Interchange; south end of US 101 overlap
	South end of freeway on US 101
		R43.57[N 1]	83	Bates Road
Santa Barbara SB R0.00[N 1]-50.61	Carpinteria	R0.63[N 1]	84	SR 150 east – Ojai, Lake Casitas
		1.61[N 1]	85	Bailard Avenue
		2.64[N 1]	86A	Casitas Pass Road	Signed as exit 86 northbound
		3.06[N 1]	86B	Linden Avenue	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		3.77[N 1]	87A	Santa Monica Road	Signed as exit 87 northbound
			87B	Carpinteria Avenue	Southbound exit only
		R5.28[N 1]	88	Padaro Lane, Santa Claus Lane
		R7.14[N 1]	90	Padaro Lane – Summerland
		R8.26[N 1]	91	Evans Avenue – Summerland
	Montecito	9.00[N 1]	92	Sheffield Drive
		10.02[N 1]	93	San Ysidro Road
	Santa Barbara	10.54[N 1]	94A	Olive Mill Road, Coast Village Road	No northbound entrance
			94B	Hermosillo Drive	Northbound exit only
		11.41[N 1]	94C	Hot Springs Road, Cabrillo Boulevard, Coast Village Road	Signed as exit 94B southbound
			95	Los Patos Way	Southbound exit only; unsigned
			95	Salinas Street	Northbound exit and entrance
		12.75[N 1]	96A	Milpas Street	Former SR 144
		13.49[N 1]	96B	Laguna Street, Garden Street
		R14.19[N 1]	97	Bath Street, Castillo Street – Santa Barbara Harbor
		R14.76[N 1]	98A	Carrillo Street – Downtown Santa Barbara	Signed as exit 98 southbound
		R15.26[N 1]	98B	Arrellaga Street	Northbound exit and entrance
		R15.73[N 1]	99A	Mission Street	Signed as exit 99 southbound
			99B	Pueblo Street	Northbound exit only
		16.55[N 1]	100	SR 225 east (Las Positas Road)
		17.78[N 1]	101A	La Cumbre Road, Hope Avenue
		18.38[N 1]	101B	SR 154 west / State Street – Cachuma Lake
			102	El Sueno Road	Northbound exit and entrance
		20.06[N 1]	103	Turnpike Road
	Goleta	21.15[N 1]	104A	Patterson Avenue	Signed as exit 104 southbound
		21.41[N 1]	104B	SR 217 west – Airport, UCSB	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		22.53[N 1]	105	Fairview Avenue
		23.72[N 1]	107	Los Carneros Road
		24.77[N 1]	108	Glen Annie Road, Storke Road
		26.91[N 1]	110	Winchester Canyon Road, Hollister Avenue
	Short gap in freeway on US 101
		30.06[N 1]	113	Dos Pueblos Canyon Road
	Short gap in freeway on US 101
		32.84[N 1]	116	El Capitan Ranch Road
		33.85[N 1]	117	El Capitan State Beach
		36.62[N 1]	120	Refugio Road – Refugio State Beach
	North end of freeway on US 101
		44.82[N 1]	128	Mariposa Reina	Interchange
				Gaviota State Beach
		47.19[N 1]	Gaviota Gorge Tunnel (northbound only)
	South end of freeway on US 101
	North end of freeway on US 101
	Las Cruces	R48.85[N 1] R0.00		US 101 north – San Luis Obispo, San Francisco	Interchange; north end of US 101 overlap
				Santa Rosa Road
	Lompoc	19.25		SR 246 east / 12th Street – Buellton	South end of SR 246 overlap
		20.57		SR 246 west (Ocean Avenue) / H Street – NASA South Gate, Surf	North end of SR 246 overlap
		23.30		Harris Grade Road, Purisima Road – Buellton
	Vandenberg Village	R25.07	211	Constellation Road	Interchange
				Santa Lucia Canyon Road
		M29.89		California Boulevard, Lompoc Casmalia Road – Vandenberg AFB
				San Antonio Road West – Casmalia
				San Antonio Road East – Los Alamos
		M36.19 R31.04		SR 135 south – Los Alamos	Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance; south end of SR 135 overlap
	South end of freeway
		R34.78	226	SR 135 north – Orcutt, Santa Maria	Northbound exit and southbound entrance; north end of SR 135 overlap
	North end of freeway
		R35.53		Clark Avenue to SR 135 north – Orcutt
				Black Road – Casmalia, Vandenberg, Betteravia
	Guadalupe	49.20		SR 166 east (Main Street) – Santa Maria
San Luis Obispo SLO 0.00-74.32				Division Street – Nipomo
	Pismo Beach	L16.54 17.75[N 1]		US 101 south	Interchange; south end of US 101 overlap
		South end of freeway on US 101
		R19.81[N 1]	193	Spyglass Drive, Shell Beach Road
		R21.11[N 1]	195	Avilla Beach Drive
		R22.29[N 1]	196	San Luis Bay Drive – See Canyon, Avila Beach
		R24.30[N 1]	198	Higuera Street
	San Luis Obispo	25.91[N 1]	200A	Los Osos Valley Road	Signed as exit 200 southbound
			200B	Prado Road, Elks Lane	Northbound exit and entrance
		27.50[N 1]	201	SR 227 south (Madonna Road)
		28.07[N 1]	202A	Marsh Street
		28.81[N 1]	202B	Broad Street
		29.08[N 1]	203A	Osos Street, Santa Rosa Street
		North end of freeway on US 101
		29.08[N 1] 16.77		US 101 / Santa Rosa Street	Interchange; north end of US 101 overlap
	South end of freeway
	Morro Bay	27.88	277	Los Osos/Baywood Park (South Bay Boulevard)
		28.82	278	Morro Bay Boulevard
		29.62	279A	Main Street
		30.14	279B	SR 41 north – Atascadero
	Short gap in freeway
		R34.91	284	Cayucos (13th Street)	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		R35.96	285	Cayucos Drive
	North end of freeway
		45.99		SR 46 east (Green Valley Road) – Paso Robles
	Cambria	48.26		SR 1 Bus. north (Main Street) / Ardath Drive – Cambria
				SR 1 Bus. south (Windsor Boulevard) to Moonstone Beach Drive – Cambria
		56.39		Hearst Castle
Monterey MON 0.00-R102.03		72.92		CR G16 (Carmel Valley Road)
	South end of freeway
	Monterey	75.14	399A	SR 68 west – Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach	South end of SR 68 overlap
		R75.75	399B	Munras Avenue – Monterey	No northbound entrance
		R76.00	399C	Soledad Drive, Munras Avenue	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		R77.38	401A	Aguajito Road – Monterey
		R78.12	401B	SR 68 east – Salinas	North end of SR 68 overlap
		R78.18	401B	North Fremont Street	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		R78.45	402A	Casa Verde Way
		R78.88	402B	Del Monte Avenue – Pacific Grove
	Seaside	R79.36	403	SR 218 east (Canyon del Rey Boulevard) – Seaside, Del Rey Oaks
	Sand City	R80.27	404	Fremont Boulevard, Del Monte Boulevard – Seaside, Sand City
		R82.89	406	Lightfighter Drive
		R84.48	408	12th Street
		R85.14	409	Marina (Del Monte Boulevard)	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		R86.48	410	Reservation Road – Marina
		R88.64	412	Del Monte Boulevard – Marina
		R90.39	414A	Nashua Road, Molera Road	Signed as exit 414 southbound
		R90.98	414B	SR 156 east to US 101 – Castroville, San Jose	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
	North end of freeway
		T92.21		SR 183 south (Merritt Street) to SR 156 east – Castroville, Salinas
Santa Cruz SCR R0.00-37.45	South end of freeway
		R0.72	425	SR 129 east (Riverside Drive) to SR 152 east – Watsonville
	Watsonville	R2.27	426	Harkins Slough Road, Green Valley Road	Northbound exit and southbound entrance
		R2.68	426	SR 152 east (Main Street) – Watsonville, Gilroy	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		R3.18	427	Airport Boulevard – Freedom	Serves Watsonville Municipal Airport
		R4.07	428	Buena Vista Drive
		R6.69	431	Mar Monte Avenue – La Selva
		R7.66	432	San Andreas Road, Larkin Valley Road
		8.35	433A	Freedom Boulevard
		9.15	433B	Rio del Mar Boulevard – Rio del Mar, Aptos
		10.54	435	State Park Drive – Seacliff Beach, Aptos
	Capitola	12.09	436	Park Avenue – Capitola, New Brighton Beach
		13.19	437	Porter Street, Bay Avenue
		13.62	438	41st Avenue
		14.86	439	Soquel Drive, Soquel Avenue
	Santa Cruz	15.82	440	Morrissey Boulevard
		16.63	441A	Emeline Avenue	Northbound exit only
		16.82	441B	SR 17 north – San Jose, Oakland	Signed as exit 441 southbound
		17.24	442	Ocean Street – Beaches
		North end of freeway
		17.56		SR 9 north (River Street) – Boulder Creek, Big Basin, Downtown Santa Cruz
		19.00		Bay Street – UC Santa Cruz
San Mateo SM 0.00-R48.56		13.58		Pescadero Road, Pescadero State Beach
	San Gregorio	18.19		SR 84 north – San Gregorio, La Honda, Redwood City
	Half Moon Bay	29.04		SR 92 east – San Mateo
	South end of freeway
	Pacifica	R43.46	505A	Sharp Park Boulevard, Fairway Drive – San Bruno	Signed as exit 505 southbound
		R43.74	505B	Clarendon Road, Oceana Boulevard	Northbound exit only
		R44.21	506	Paloma Avenue, Francisco Boulevard	Southbound exit and northbound entrance
		R45.12	507	Manor Drive, Monterey Road, Palmetto Avenue
	Daly City	R46.72	508	SR 35 (Skyline Boulevard)	Signed as exit 508A (south) and 508B (north) southbound
		R47.27	509A	Serramonte Boulevard, Clarinada Avenue	Signed as exit 509 southbound
		R47.80 R25.28[N 2]	509B	I-280 south (Junipero Serra Freeway) – San Jose	South end of I-280 overlap; no exit number southbound
		R25.78[N 2]	510	Eastmoor Avenue, Mission Street	Signed as exit 48 southbound
		M27.17[N 2] R48.05		I-280 north – Downtown San Francisco, Bay Bridge	North end of I-280 overlap; southbound exit is exit 511
			511	John Daly Boulevard – Daly City, Westlake District	Signed as exit 49A northbound
San Francisco SF R0.00-11.18[N 1]		North end of freeway
		R0.11		Alemany Boulevard east – Cow Palace	Interchange
		R0.31		Brotherhood Way	Interchange
		R0.68		Junipero Serra Boulevard – San Francisco State University, San Francisco Zoo	No left turn from SR 1 south to Junipero Serra Boulevard north
		1.90		SR 35 south (Sloat Boulevard) – San Francisco Civic Center, Beach, San Francisco Zoo	No left turn from SR 1 north to Sloat Boulevard west (SR 35)
		4.05		Lincoln Way	No left turns from SR 1
				Geary Boulevard – University of San Francisco	No left turns from SR 1
		South end of freeway
		7.08 9.60[N 1]		US 101 south / Marina Boulevard – Downtown San Francisco	South end of US 101 overlap; US 101 south was former SR 480 east
		9.71[N 1]	439	25th Avenue – View Area, Presidio, Golden Gate NRA, Fort Point
		Golden Gate Bridge over Golden Gate
Marin MRN L0.00[N 1]-50.51	Sausalito
				Vista Point	Northbound exit and entrance
		0.32[N 1]	442	Alexander Avenue – Sausalito
		0.89[N 1]	Waldo Tunnel through Waldo Grade
		1.52[N 1]	443	Spencer Avenue, Monte Mar Drive
		2.48[N 1]	444	Rodeo Avenue	No access across US 101
		3.33[N 1]	445A	Sausalito, Marin City
		North end of freeway on US 101
		4.46[N 1] 0.00		US 101 north – Santa Rosa	Interchange; north end of US 101 overlap
		0.65		Almonte Boulevard – Mill Valley
	Olema	26.51		Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
	Point Reyes Station	29.33		Point Reyes Petaluma Road – Petaluma
Sonoma SON 0.00-58.58		0.19		Valley Ford Road – Petaluma
		2.42		Valley Ford Freestone Road – Occidental, Monte Rio
		5.38		Bodega Highway – Bodega, Sebastopol
		20.10		SR 116 east (River Road) – Guerneville
	Fort Ross	R33.04		Fort Ross Road – Cazadero, Fort Ross
Mendocino MEN 0.00-105.58	Point Arena	15.18		Riverside Drive
		40.27		SR 128 – Cloverdale
	Fort Bragg	59.80		SR 20 – Willits
		90.87		SR 211 (Usal Road)
		105.50		SR 271 – Leggett
		105.58		US 101 – Ukiah, Eureka, Crescent City
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi      Concurrency terminus •      Closed/Former •      Incomplete access •      Unopened

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt} Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along US 101 rather than SR 1.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along I-280 rather than SR 1.

See also

• U.S. Route 101 in California
• List of highways numbered 1

References

1. ^ ^{a b} California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed December 2007
2. ^ CA Codes (shc:250-257)
3. ^ CA Codes (shc:260-284)
4. ^ California Department of Transportation, Officially Designated Scenic Highways, accessed 2009-09-14
5. ^ National Scenic Byways Program: Big Sur Coast Highway
6. ^ 2007 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California. Caltrans. pp. 115–116. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/products/Named_Freeways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-03-28. 
7. ^ Hogan, C.Michael (2008-02-25). "Morro Creek - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The West". The Megalithic Portal. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18502. Retrieved 2011-07-04. 
8. ^ "Fort Bragg’s $4.4 million roundabout". Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. May 18, 2011. http://roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/12572/fort-braggs-4-4-million-roundabout/. 
9. ^ Caltrans: Simpson Lane Intersection, retrieved 2011-07-07.
10. ^ Ben Blow, California Highways: A Descriptive Record of Road Development by the State and by Such Counties as Have Paved Highways, 1920 (Archive.org or Google Books), pp. 182, 232-233, 249
11. ^ Howe & Peters, Engineers' Report to California State Automobile Association Covering the Work of the California Highway Commission for the Period 1911-1920, pp. 11-16
12. ^ "An act declaring the county road extending from San Simeon to Cambria to be a state highway and providing for the maintenance thereof.", 1921 chapter 837, p. 1606
13. ^ "An act...to construct and maintain...a state highway, extending from the town of Oxnard to a point...at or near the town of El Rio, Ventura county.", 1925 chapter 309, p. 508
14. ^ "An act establishing certain additional state highways and classifying them as secondary highways.", 1931 chapter 82, p. 103
15. ^ "An act...relating to...the addition of certain highways to the State system.", 1933 chapter 767, p. 2034-2039: "Ferndale to State Highway Route 1 near Fernbridge." "Russian River near Jenner to Westport." "State Highway near southerly end of Marin Peninsula to the Marin-Sonoma County line via the Coast Route." "Santa Cruz to San Francisco via Coast." "State Highway Route 56 near Carmel to Santa Cruz." "State Highway Route 2 near Las Cruces via Lompoc and Guadalupe to State Highway Route 2 near Pismo."
16. ^ "An act to establish a Streets and Highways Code...", 1935 chapter 29, p. 279: "Route 56 is from: (a) Route 2 near Los [sic] Cruces via Lompoc and Guadalupe to Route 2 near Pismo. (b) San Luis Obispo to San Francisco along the coast via Cambria, San Simeon, Carmel, and Santa Cruz. (c) State Highway near southerly end of Marin Peninsula to the Marin-Sonoma County line via the Coast Route. (d) Russian River near Jenner to Westport. (e) Ferndale to Route 1 near Fernbridge." "Route 60 is from Route 2 near El Rio via Oxnard to Route 2 south of San Juan Capistrano."
17. ^ California Highways and Public Works, State Routes will be Numbered and Marked with Distinctive Bear Signs, August 1934
18. ^ Automobile Club of Southern California, Automobile route along the Pacific coast from Seal Beach to Santa Monica, 1936
19. ^ "An act to amend Section 356 of the Streets and Highways Code, relating to state highways.", 1951 chapter 1588, p. 3585
20. ^ H.M. Gousha Company, Highway Map of California, 1955
21. ^ "An act...relating to routes on the state highway system.", 1963 chapter 385, p. 1171, 1186
22. ^ California Highways magazine, Sept. 1964
23. ^ "An act...relating to state highways.", 1984 chapter 409, p. 1769, 1774
24. ^ 1932 Summer Olympics official report. p. 87.
25. ^ CalTrans5: Piedras Blancas Realignment Project
26. ^ Cabanatuan, Michael (2010-06-19). "Major progress on Devil's Slide tunnel". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/06/19/MNUM1E1069.DTL. Retrieved 2011-08-14. 
27. ^ CalTrans4: Devil's Slide Project
28. ^ Johnson, Nate (2010-05-31). "Highway 1 repair plan near Stinson outlined". Oakland Tribune. http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_15195448. Retrieved 2011-08-14. 
29. ^ "Highway 1 To Be Closed At Least 1 Month". KSBW. 2011-03-18. http://www.ksbw.com/news/27237744/detail.html. Retrieved 2011-08-14. 
30. ^ "Landslide shuts famed Californian Highway 1 as big chunk falls into the sea". Daily Mail. 2011-03-18. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367404/Landslide-shuts-Californian-Highway-1-big-chunk-falls-sea.html#ixzz1V2aC13XT. Retrieved 2011-08-14. 
31. ^ California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
32. ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
33. ^ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, State Route 1 Freeway Interchanges, Retrieved on 2009-02-05.
34. ^ California Department of Transportation, California Numbered Exit Uniform System, U.S. Route 101 Freeway Interchanges, Retrieved on 2009-02-05.

External links

• Pacific Coast Highway Travel
• California @ WestCoastRoads - State Route 1
• Caltrans: Route 1 road conditions
• California Highways: SR 1
• 1958 plans for the conversion of Junipero Serra Boulevard in San Francisco to freeway
• 1964 plans for the conversion of Park Presidio Boulevard in San Francisco to freeway