California county routes in zone N | |
Caption: | Example of a California county route shield |
Label1: | County |
Field1: | County Route X (CR X) or Route X |
Links: | CA |
Type: | CR |
There are 9 routes assigned to the "N" zone of the California Route Marker Program, which designates county routes in California. The "N" zone includes county highways lying in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N1 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 8.50 |
Length Ref: | [1] |
Tourist: | Malibu Canyon and Las Virgenes Roads[2] |
Formed: | 1963 |
County Route N1 (CR N1) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It runs 3.5miles from Pacific Coast Highway / State Route 1 in Malibu along Malibu Canyon Road through the Santa Monica Mountains. After crossing Piuma Road near the top of the mountain, the name changes to Las Virgenes Road where it continues another 5miles to US 101 in Calabasas. Locals refer to the route as a whole as Malibu Canyon. This route was defined in 1963.
CR N1 is part of the State Scenic Highway System in Los Angeles County.
Major landmarks along the route include Pepperdine University on the west side of the road at Pacific Coast Highway. Soka University was located at King Gillette Ranch along this road near the intersection of Mullholland Highway. Plans to expand were stopped and the land sold to the National Park Service in 2005. The main entrance Malibu Creek State Park is just south of that same intersection. Also nearby is the Malibu Hindu Temple.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N2 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 38.42 |
Formed: | 1963 |
County Route N2 (CR N2) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It runs from State Route 138 at Quail Lake to State Route 14 in Palmdale. The route is known as Old Ridge Route Road, Pine Canyon Road, Lake Elizabeth Road, and Palmdale Boulevard.
See main article: article and Angeles Forest Highway.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N3 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Alternate Name: | Angeles Forest Highway |
Length Mi: | 25 |
Formed: | 1963 |
County Route N3 (CR N3), known as the Angeles Forest Highway, is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States, that runs approximately from Sierra Highway south of Palmdale to Angeles Crest Highway north of La Cañada Flintridge. It was originally surveyed in 1913 and constructed between 1932 and 1941 to access Southern California Edison transmission lines that cross the San Gabriel Mountains between the Antelope Valley and the Los Angeles Basin. It was defined as a county highway in 1963.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N4 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 12.50 |
Formed: | 1963 |
County Route N4 (CR N4), known as the Big Pines Highway and Largo Vista Road, is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It connects State Route 2 (Angeles Crest Highway) in Big Pines with State Route 138 (Pearblossom Highway) near Llano. It is built directly on the trace of the San Andreas Fault.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N5 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 21.65 |
Formed: | 1964 |
County Route N5 (CR N5) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is known as Avenue J for the most part and is one of the principal major east–west thoroughfares in Lancaster, California. The route runs from State Route 14 (Antelope Valley Freeway) in Lancaster to the Butte Valley Wildflower Sanctuary on 190th Street East near Hi Vista.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N6 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 7.30 |
Formed: | 1964 |
County Route N6 (CR N6) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The route connects State Route 138 with Devil's Punchbowl, a popular recreation area. CR N6 is known as Devil's Punch Bowl Road, Tumbleweed Road, Longview Road and a portion of Fort Tejon Road.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N7 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Alternate Name: | Hawthorne Boulevard |
Length Mi: | 7.09 |
Formed: | 1964 |
County Route N7 (CR N7), known entirely as Hawthorne Boulevard, is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It runs through the Palos Verdes Peninsula from Palos Verdes Drive West in Rancho Palos Verdes to the Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Torrance. Hawthorne Boulevard is signed as State Route 107 north of its intersection with the Pacific Coast Highway (SR 1), ending at its intersection with Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Hawthorne Boulevard itself extends from the Palos Verdes Peninsula northward through Torrance, Lawndale, Hawthorne, Lennox, and Inglewood, a distance of more than 20miles. Hawthorne Boulevard ends at Century Boulevard where it continues north to Hollywood as La Brea Avenue.
Hawthorne Boulevard is very distinctive through Lawndale and part of Hawthorne because it is very wide with business parking in the center between the northbound and southbound lanes; the parking area was once part of a Pacific Electric right-of-way.
Landmarks along Hawthorne Boulevard include Point Vicente Lighthouse park and Point Vicente Interpretive Center, Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, South Coast Botanic Garden, Del Amo Fashion Center, South Bay Galleria, Hawthorne Plaza, and a Metro C Line station at Interstate 105.
Metro Local Line 40 provide bus service between Century Boulevard and Artesia Boulevard. Metro Local Line 344 and Torrance Transit line 8 provide bus service south of Artesia Boulevard, with the former running to the Palos Verdes Peninsula and the latter to Pacific Coast Highway.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N8 |
Location: | Los Angeles – Orange Counties |
Length Mi: | 16.76 |
Formed: | 1970 |
County Route N8 (CR N8) is a county highway in the U.S. state of California in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Its southern terminus is at Beach Boulevard (State Route 39) in Buena Park and its northern terminus is at Interstate 10 in West Covina. Only a quarter mile of the route is in Orange County (between Alondra Boulevard and SR 39). CR N8 is known as La Mirada Boulevard from Beach Boulevard in Buena Park to Colima Road in South Whittier, Colima Road from La Mirada Boulevard to Azusa Avenue in Hacienda Heights and Azusa Avenue from Colima Road to I-10 in West Covina.
State: | CA |
Type: | CR |
County: | Los Angeles |
Route: | N9 |
Location: | Los Angeles County |
Length Mi: | 12.54 |
Formed: | 1974 |
County Route N9 (CR N9) is a county highway in Los Angeles County, California, United States, running from the coast in Malibu through the Santa Monica Mountains to US 101. It runs from State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) along Kanan Dume Road to Mulholland Highway, and then 6miles from Mulholland Highway along Kanan Road to US 101 in Agoura Hills. The route was defined in 1974.