Road Trips
The highway system of the United States
- Interstate Highways
- Blue / Red background
- even-numbered routes for east–west routes (with the lowest numbers along Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico)
- odd-numbered routes are north–south routes (with the lowest numbers along the Pacific Ocean)
- Since 1956.
- U.S. Numbered Highways
- Black / White background
- Since 1926, the original interstate highways, many replaced by Interstate or State Routes.
- even numbered for east–west routes (with the lowest numbers along Canada)
- odd numbered for north–south routes (with the lowest numbers along the Atlantic Ocean).
- serve more than one state.
- State highways
- Black / White background
- Each state also has its own design for its highway markers, e.g. an outline of the state with the number inside
San Francisco Bay Area <=> Los Angeles
~6 hours, California SR 152 => I-5
San Francisco Bay Area <=> Bakersfield
~250 miles, 4 hours
2 options:
- California SR 152 => I-5
- California SR 152 => SR 99, via Fresno.
Bakersfield <=> Las Vegas
286 miles, 4 Hours, SR 58 => I-15
- The Big Red Barn, Murray Family Farms
- Cesar E. Chavez National Monument
- Tehachapi Railroad loop
Mojave
- Mojave Commercial Airliner Storage
Boron
- Borax Visitor Center
- 20 Mule Team Museum
Barstow
- Route 66 Mother Road Museum
- Western America Railroad Museum
- Historic Barstow Main Street (Route 66)
- Barstow Station
Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine
Primm: border of Nevada and California
Close to LV
- Seven Magic Mountains
- The Last Spike: "On January 30, 1905, near this site, workers drove the last spike that completed the railroad between Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, California. "
Los Angeles <=> San Diego
~2.5 Hours