U.S. Route 50 in California

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U.S. Route 50 marker

U.S. Route 50

Map
US 50 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Caltrans
Length108.624 mi[1] (174.813 km)
Existed1926–present
Tourist
routes
US 50 between SR 49 in Placerville and SR 89 near South Lake Tahoe[2]
Major junctions
West end I-80 in West Sacramento
Major intersections
East end US 50 at Nevada state line in Stateline, NV
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountiesYolo, Sacramento, El Dorado
Highway system
SR 51

U.S. Route 50 (US 50) is a transcontinental

Lake Tahoe Basin
, is primarily a two-lane road.

The US 50 corridor is a historic one, used by many

Gold Rush as well as the Pony Express. In 1895, part of the present-day route was designated as California's first state highway, and it was later designated as one of two routes of the Lincoln Highway across the Sierra Nevada. Much of US 50 was constructed during the initial construction of the California state highway system
.

Route description

US 50 winds down Echo Summit
Lake Tahoe Boulevard, where the route leaves California and enters Nevada (Nevada territory would be at the bottom). A tiny portion of Lake Tahoe
is visible in the upper right corner

US 50 begins in

overlaps US 50 on the West Sacramento Freeway to the split with SR 275, then over the Sacramento River on the Pioneer Memorial Bridge and across I-5 to SR 99. Beginning in 2016, signs on this section are being updated to remove references to Business 80 and instead sign the route only as US Highway 50.[4] Approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) of US 50 from I-80 to SR 99 south is part Interstate Highway as well, carrying the unsigned designation of Interstate 305.[5][6]

At the US 50/Business 80/SR 99 interchange, Business 80 splits to the north, SR 99 heads south, and US 50 continues east as the El Dorado Freeway

at-grade intersections in Placerville, including SR 49.[8]

Leaving Placerville, the expressway through town starts, only to end several miles later. The final section of freeway begins near Camino, where the Lincoln Highway splits from US 50, and ends at the east end of Pollock Pines. Just east of Pollock Pines, US 50 continues as an undivided conventional highway with one eastbound lane and two westbound lanes, entering the river canyon of the South Fork American River near Riverton and crossing to the north side of the river near Ice House Road.

As the highway continues ascending the Sierras, US 50 regularly gets snow at higher elevations from fall to spring. The

snowstorms. Checkpoints are often set up to enforce chain restrictions on vehicles bound for icy or snowy areas. When chain restrictions are in effect, vehicles must have chains on the driving wheels, except 4WD vehicles with snow tires. Additionally, during the winter season, trucks are required to carry chains whether or not controls are in force.[9][10]

From Ice House Road to the crest of the Sierras, US 50 is a steadily rising mostly two-lane road, staying just north of the river except for a 1995 cutoff that crosses the river twice in quick succession west of

U.S. Olympic trials for men's track and field, held at a temporary facility in the parking lot of the Nebelhorn ski area.[11][12][13][14]

From Echo Summit down to the

Lake Tahoe Basin, the roadway slowly descends the side of a steep hill; it then curves northeast to its south junction with SR 89 (which heads south to Luther Pass) beginning co-signing of SR 89, and then turns northward near the city of South Lake Tahoe. Where US 50 and SR 89 split, at an intersection known as "The Y", the former turns east on the four-lane Lake Tahoe Boulevard, which it follows to and along the south shore of Lake Tahoe, then it enters the state of Nevada
.

US 50 has been added to the California Freeway and Expressway System by the state legislature,[15] and is part of the National Highway System,[16] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.[17] The highway east of SR 49 is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System,[18] and has been recognized as such except within the South Lake Tahoe city limits,[19] meaning that it is a substantial section of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the potential designation has gained popular favor with the community.[20]

History

Emigrant trails and wagon roads

The earliest roads used by Europeans to cross the

State Route 88 over Carson Pass and Mormon Emigrant Trail and Sly Park Road to Pleasant Valley.[21]

John Calhoun Johnson of Placerville surveyed and cleared a shorter, lower (and thus less snow-covered) trail east from that town in 1852, completing the work by the summer. Rather than following the ridge to the Sierra's crest as the Mormons had, Johnson headed eastward to the South Fork American River, crossing to its north side near the present Pacific Ranger Station in order to follow Peavine Ridge around a rocky stretch of the river. Returning to the river between Kyburz and Strawberry, he then continued alongside it to the crest at Johnson Pass, where a steep slope descended to Lake Tahoe. Within Nevada, his route generally followed the lake to Glenbrook, where it turned inland and crossed the Carson Range over Spooner Summit into the Carson Valley near Carson City. This trail, known as Johnson's Cut-off, generally followed the present US 50, with notable deviations only just east of Placerville (via Carson Road), over Peavine Ridge (roughly following Peavine Ridge Road, some trails, and Wrights Lake Road), just east of Strawberry (via Slippery Ford Road), over the crest of the Sierra (via Johnson Pass Road and Meyers Road), south of Lake Tahoe (via Pioneer Trail), east of Lake Tahoe (via Genoa Peak Road[22]), and from Spooner Summit into the Carson Valley (via Kings Canyon Road). By 1854, Bartlett's Bridge had been built at the trail's westernmost crossing of the American River, allowing wagons to follow the cutoff;[23] it was soon washed away by a freshet on March 7, 1855, and replaced by Brockliss Bridge, several miles to the east.[24] Due to an improvement of the road through Carson Canyon on the old Carson Route, most travelers ended up turning southeast from Johnson Pass over Luther Pass (present SR 89) to join the older route northeast of Carson Pass rather than following the cutoff along Lake Tahoe.[25][26]

Johnson's Cut-off was the only trail that could be used year-round, but it still had problems, as it had been built without use of earth-moving equipment, and thus did not always take the optimal route. The state adopted a survey by Sherman Day in September 1855, but failed to make use of it. Two years later, the counties of Yolo, Sacramento, and El Dorado, all of which would be benefited by further improvements, began planning and carrying out work. The state legislature created a "Board of Wagon Commissioners" on March 8, 1858, and it completed the improvements by the end of that year. This new route had better grades than the old cutoff, deviating from it in several places: it followed the present Smith Flat Road rather than Carson Road east of Placerville, traversed Peavine Ridge much further down the slope, returning to the river west of Kyburz (roughly via the present White Meadows Road, Ice House Road, and Weber Mill Road to US 50 at Granite Springs Road), and crossed into Carson Valley via Luther Pass. By 1860, the immense traffic over the road and lack of maintenance had worsened it to the point that it could no longer be used by stagecoaches.[26][27]

To provide for better maintenance, improvements funded by

SR 207) in Nevada, connecting Lake Tahoe to the Carson Valley via a shorter route than that over Luther Pass. Two other competing toll roads soon opened across the Carson Range: one built by Rufus Walton from Spooner Summit down Clear Creek to the valley (now part of US 50), and an 1863 improvement of the original Johnson's Cut-Off along the lake, across Spooner Summit, and through Kings Canyon to Carson City.[28] West of Johnson Pass, the Slippery Ford Grade down to Strawberry was rebuilt by George W. Swan. The first toll-supported bypass of Peavine Ridge was built by Oglesby and opened in 1861, leaving the old road from Placerville at Pollock Pines, following the ridgetops and slopes south of the South Fork American River, crossing the river east of White Hall, and then following US 50 along the north bank to the 1858 county road west of Kyburz. Johnson began work on a lower-grade replacement on the north side of the river in 1864, but stopped when Pearson and McDonald opened a road over the present alignment of US 50, leaving the pre-1861 main road southwest of Brockliss Bridge and following US 50, across the river at Riverton, to Oglesby's road east of White Hall. Toll collection ended in California in 1886, when El Dorado County bought the privately improved sections and made them public roads.[26][29]

West of Placerville, the wagon road headed south to

stage lines followed;[33] the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869 took most of the traffic off the Placerville wagon road.[26]

State maintenance and reconstruction

The 1901 bridge at Riverton
Westbound at the bottom of the 1947 grade to Echo Summit

At the dawn of the

Department of Engineering took over its maintenance in 1907, immediately completed a survey and posted granite milestones that marked the distance from Placerville, and in 1910 started sprinkling the dirt road with water in summer to keep down dust (as had been done in the 1860s). A 1915 law added the short distance from Smith Flat west to the east limits of Placerville to the state road.[26][36][37][38][39]

With the passage of the first state highway

Sportsman's Hall, by which time paving was complete west of Placerville.[37][45]

The

Smith Flat (1932), a new route around Slippery Ford Grade east of Strawberry (1931), and a new route through South Lake Tahoe, leaving behind Pioneer Trail (1931). The crossing of the Sierra crest at Johnson Pass was bypassed in 1940 by a better-quality route over Echo Summit; the lower part of the current road east of the summit opened in 1947, bypassing Meyers Road.[26] West of Placerville, several major two-lane relocations were built. A bypass (now Mother Lode Drive) around El Dorado and the winding Forni Road was completed in 1938, and the improvement was extended west to Shingle Springs in 1947. A short relocation north of White Rock, between Bidwell Street and Bass Lake Road, opened in 1940, and was extended west beyond Hazel Avenue, bypassing Folsom, in 1949.[50][51][52]

Extension to San Francisco

By the early 1930s, US 50 had been extended to San Francisco via the former

I-5 to Stockton, SR 4 (Charter Way) and SR 26 through Stockton, and SR 99
to Sacramento.

Freeway and expressway upgrades

Interstate 305 marker

Interstate 305

LocationSacramento, California
Length6 mi[62][6] (9.7 km)

When the

Business 80) and SR 99 in early 1973, bypassing the mostly four-lane Folsom Boulevard.[67]

In 1980, California submitted to the

State Route 51. But the California State Legislature has never added a legislative designation for I-305, and that Interstate remains unsigned to this day.[69][70]

For many years, the four lanes from Sacramento stopped at Riverton, where the original two-lane road continued through the canyon and over Echo Summit.[71][72] The state rejected a proposed $133 million total realignment between Riverton and Kyburz in 1985, instead opting for a less expensive program of spot improvements including new bridges and passing lanes.[73] Portions of the work were completed by 1987, including a four-lane bridge at Riverton (though two lanes are used by traffic turning at Ice House Road at the east end of the bridge).[74] Between White Hall and Kyburz, a pair of four-lane bridges over the South Fork American River, carrying a realignment across a bend in the river, were dedicated on May 31, 1995, as the El Dorado County Veterans Bridges.[75]

The route through the South Fork American River Canyon remains vulnerable to

bannered U.S. Highways.[77] After the work was complete, signs were left along the route.[78]

Major junctions

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see California postmile § Official postmile definitions).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

CountyLocationPostmile
[1][66][79]
Exit
[80][81]
DestinationsNotes
US 99W
north
0.351A
I-880
east; I-80 exit 82
1.201BHarbor BoulevardSigned as exit 1 eastbound
2.503
US 99W
south
Jefferson Boulevard (SR 84) / South River RoadWestbound exit and eastbound entrance
Sacramento River3.16
0.00[a]
Pioneer Memorial Bridge
Los Angeles
Western end of SR 99 concurrency; I-5 exit 518
0.61
Downtown Sacramento
Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; former SR 99
10th Street –
Downtown Sacramento
Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
1.37
US 99W[82] / SR 160
16th StreetWestbound exit and eastbound entrance; former
US 99W[82] / SR 160
2.48
Capital City Freeway east) / SR 99 south (South Sacramento Freeway) – Reno, Fresno
Eastern terminus of unsigned I-305; eastern end of I-80 BL/SR 99/I-305 concurrency; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; US 50 east follows I-80 BL exit 6A
L2.306A26th StreetWestbound exit and eastbound entrance
R0.006B
SR 99 south (South Sacramento Freeway) – Fresno
Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
R0.146C
I-80 BL east (Capital City Freeway east) – Reno
Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; former I-80 east
R0.57734th StreetEastbound exit only
Stockton BoulevardNo eastbound exit
R2.138A59th StreetEastbound exit and westbound entrance
R2.638B65th StreetSigned as exit 8 westbound
R3.479
SR 16 east (Howe Avenue) / Power Inn Road – Cal State University Sacramento
Cal State Univ. Sacramento not signed westbound
R5.3411Watt Avenue
Rancho CordovaR7.7513Bradshaw Road
R9.5115Mather Field Road –
Mather Field, Rancho Cordova
R10.9217Zinfandel Drive – Rancho Cordova
12.5018Sunrise Boulevard (
CR E2) – Fair Oaks
15.7621Hazel Avenue (
CR E3
)
16.1022Aerojet RoadEastbound exit only
Folsom17.0123Folsom BoulevardFormer US 50
19.2325Prairie City Road
21.5027East Bidwell Street
28Empire Ranch RoadProposed interchange[83]
El Dorado
ED 0.00–80.44
El Dorado Hills0.8630Latrobe Road / El Dorado Hills BoulevardSigned as exits 30A (Latrobe Road) and 30B (El Dorado Hills Boulevard) eastbound
R1.8331Silva Valley Parkway / White Rock Road
El Dorado HillsCameron Park lineR3.2332Bass Lake Road
Cameron Park4.9634Cambridge Road – Cameron Park
6.5735Cameron Park Drive
Shingle SpringsR8.5637Ponderosa Road
R10.3139Shingle Springs Drive
R11.2240Red Hawk Parkway
R12.1941Greenstone Road
Diamond SpringsR14.0143El Dorado Road
R15.0644AMissouri Flat Road – Diamond Springs
Placerville15.8344BForni Road / Placerville Drive
16.5045Ray Lawyer DriveNo westbound exit
16.9946Placerville DriveWestbound exit and eastbound entrance
17.4246
Central Placerville, Diamond Springs
(Main Street)
Closed; former eastbound exit
17.52Canal Street
At-grade intersection
; eastern end of freeway
17.67
At-grade intersection
17.76Coloma StreetWestbound exit only; western end of freeway
18.5247Broadway / Mosquito Road / Main StreetNo eastbound entrance; signed as Broadway eastbound, Mosquito Road / Main Street westbound
19.1348Schnell School Road / Apple Hill Drive
20.3049APoint View DriveSigned as exit 49 eastbound
20.7549B
Smith Flat
Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastern end of freeway
At-grade intersection; connects to Lincoln Highway
east; western end of freeway
R25.9554Cedar Grove, Camino (Carson Road)Signed as Cedar Grove eastbound, Camino westbound
Pollock PinesR28.8457Ridgeway DriveFormerly signed as Pollock Pines eastbound, Cedar Grove westbound
R31.3060Sly Park Road (
US 50 Alt.
east
Eastern end of freeway
66.48[84]Echo Summit, elevation 7,382 feet (2,250 m)[84]
US 50 Alt.
west
71.00Agricultural Inspection Station (westbound only)
Emerald Bay, Tahoe City
Eastern end of SR 89 overlap
80.44
US 50 east – Stateline
Continuation into Nevada
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  1. ^ a b c d e f Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along I-80 BL, as indicated on the Caltrans I-80 BL exit list. The corresponding postmile for US 50 would be the same except for the addition of an "L" prefix.

See also

  • sign 
    California Roads portal

Footnotes

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