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Hello and welcome to the California State Routes Task Force page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

This task force aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about

, also known as California State Routes (note the capitals).

An article describing the logic and basic history of the

List of California State Highways

article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material.

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these should be merged onto a single article,

Unconstructed California State Highways

.

The following are task force goals:

1. Write high quality articles with a standardized structure
2. Make redirects listed on
   Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways/Completion list

Assessment

California road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA			11			11
FM					7	7
A			1	1		2
GA			42	1		43
B			3	3		6
C		3	126	11		140
Start	1	3	74	16		94
Stub				5		5
List		7	8	6	4	25
Category					125	125
Disambig					10	10
File					30	30
Portal					12	12
Project					36	36
Redirect			1		274	275
Template					14	14
Other			1			1
Assessed	1	13	267	43	512	836
Unassessed					1	1
Total	1	13	267	43	513	837
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,166			Ω = 3.87

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Featured pictures

• 
  Amboy (California, USA), Hist. Route 66 -- 2012 -- 1
• 
  Bixby Creek Bridge, California, USA - May 2013
• 
  CA-84 Woodside April 2023 002
• 
  Los angeles from getty panorama
• 
  McClure Tunnel west
• 
  San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge- New and Old bridges
• 
  Tower Bridge Sacramento edit

Featured portals

A-Class articles

Good articles

Main page featured articles

Did you know? articles

Picture of the day pictures

• 
  San Francisco Bay Area Skyline Blvd (2004-08-12)
• 
  I-80 Eastshore Fwy (2005-12-01)
• 
  Tower Bridge Sacramento edit (2006-10-11)
• 
  Los angeles from getty panorama (2009-02-27)
• 
  Bixby Creek Bridge, California, USA - May 2013 (2015-12-26)
• 
  Amboy (California, USA), Hist. Route 66 -- 2012 -- 1 (2017-08-12)
• 
  San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge- New and Old bridges (2017-08-24)
• 
  McClure Tunnel west (2018-12-04)
• 
  CA-84 Woodside April 2023 002 (2025-04-02)

Former featured pictures

• 
  I-80 Eastshore Fwy
• 
  San Francisco Bay Area Skyline Blvd

Former good articles

History

• Legislative definitions:
  1964
  , including a cross-reference between the two
• When each route was added to the state highway system
• Legislative act roads
• Freeway and Expressway System
• State Scenic Highway System
• Interregional Road System

In-progress pages

• Relinquishments
• Freeway names
• Major named highways
• 1925 report
• Turnpikes
• List of relevant laws
• List of laws by route:
  post-1964
• 1933 additions
• 1937
• State Sign Routes:
  1934-1964
• Full list of routes
  (Sign Routes only pre-1964)
• Bond issues
• Full list of pre-1964 legislative routes
• Routes in adjoining states
• Old highway names
• U.S. Routes after 1964
• Temporary signage of Interstates
• Joint Highway Districts
• Emigration trails
• Major mountain passes
• Projects
• Scans of all state statutes (awesome!)

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External links

• Old city maps (1934, 1944)
• 1956 and 1966 maps
• USC Digital Archive (includes maps)
• 1918 map
• 1913 and 1917 maps
• commons:Category:Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963
• California Highways and Public Works scans: 1-4 (1924-1927) 4-7 (1927-1929) 8-9 (1930-1931) 10-11 (1932-1933) 12-14 (1934-1936) 14-16 (1936-1938) 17-18 (1939-1940) 19-22 (1941-1944) 23-26 (1945-1947) 27-28 (1948-1949) 29-30 (1950-1951) 31-32 (1952-1953) 33-34 (1954-1955) 35-36 (1956-1957) 37-38 (1958-1959) 39-40 (1960-1961) 41-42 (1962-1963) 43-44 (1964-1965) 45-46 (1966-1967) Index

Articles should follow

.

Note: Many California road articles use outdated standards, and have not been brought up to current wikipedia and project standards. If using an article as a baseline, it is recommended to use one that has recently been reviewed.

Naming convention

Articles should be titled "California State Route X" per

.

Shields

The various shield graphics are located in Category:California State Route shields on Commons. {{jct}} can create the various links to highway articles with the appropriate shield graphics for use in the infobox or junction lists.

State law

Details on what systems (California Freeway and Expressway System, State Scenic Highway System) the route is in should generally be in the route description, not in a separate section. Note that the law merely makes routes eligible for the Scenic Highway System; Caltrans must have officially designated it as such to be part of it. Any other significant legal names the route has should also be detailed here in prose (not a list).

Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:State highways in California|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002"). Use

in the state.

Infobox

All articles should use {{Infobox road|state=CA}}. All known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable parameters as well as standards for the infobox.

Junction template

Use {{jct}} to create the entries in a junction list section for the article, or the junction list in the infobox. To use, insert {{jct|state=CA|type|number}} into the article. If two to four highways are needed, use {{jct|state=CA|type|first number|type|second number}}. Types can be I for Interstates, US for US Routes or CA for state routes. Further instructions can be found on the documentation page.

California uses county-wide postmiles instead of the typical statewide milepost; any lettered designations such as "R" or "T" are listed along with the postmile; for example, "3.45" or "R6.77". The county abbreviation is listed in the county column when it exists (that is, when the route spans two or more counties, per

for an example of what to do with shared concurrencies when the route assumes the postmiles of another route.

Not every at-grade junction is listed in the junction list. The current standard is as follows: In order to be listed as an at-grade intersection, the road must be a county route, state route, Interstate, or U.S. Route or must be notable enough to have an article of its own, per

WP:USRD/STDS

).

Stub

Use {{California-road-stub}}

This California road–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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Citation templates

These templates provide centralized locations to frequently used pages to cite California road articles. If you will cite these Caltrans pages in an article, please use these citation templates. This is so if Caltrans reorganizes their web page we have only have to update the URL in one template, rather than hundreds of articles. If these templates will not meet your needs please improve the templates rather than forking or manual linking.

• Template:Caltrans scenic
• Template:CA scenic
• Template:Caltrans scenic info
• Template:CAFESystem
• Template:FHWA NHS map
• Template:Cite California statute
• Template:Caltrans traffic

Project banner

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=CA}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to California State Routes.

	U.S. Roads: California NA‑class

WikiProject Award

Image	What to type	Description
	{{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}	The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for WP California State Highways . This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.

User templates

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/California/Userbox}}

will produce:

This user edits articles about California State Routes.

For a list of project announcements and news, use: {{

USRD Announcements

}}