 State Route 60 | ||||
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 SR 60 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained byCaltrans | ||||
| Length | 76 mi[1] (122 km) | |||
| Existed | 1964–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |    I-5 /I-10 /US 101 inLos Angeles | |||
| Major intersections | ||||
| East end | I-10 inBeaumont | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | California | |||
| Counties | Los Angeles,San Bernardino,Riverside | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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State Route 60 (SR 60) is an east–weststate highway in the U.S. state ofCalifornia. It serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of theLos Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of theSan Gabriel Valley. It functions as a bypass route ofInterstate 10 (I-10) through the area between theEast Los Angeles Interchange inLos Angeles andBeaumont. SR 60 provides a route across several spurs of thePeninsular Ranges, linking theLos Angeles Basin with thePomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley. The highway alsoruns concurrently withSR 57 andI-215. Portions of SR 60 are designated as either thePomona Freeway or theMoreno Valley Freeway.
SR 60 begins at theEast Los Angeles Interchange nearDowntown Los Angeles, designated as the Pomona Freeway. The freeway heads east from the junction after splitting off fromI-10 (Santa Monica Freeway) and passes throughEast Los Angeles, where it has a four level interchange withI-710 (Long Beach Freeway). Continuing east through the southernSan Gabriel Valley, SR 60 passes through many cities and communities, intersectingI-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway) in theCity of Industry. It proceeds tooverlap withSR 57 (Orange Freeway) inDiamond Bar, right on the edge of the San Gabriel Valley.
A short overlap carries SR 60 traffic on the same roadway as SR 57. The two routes head northeast through an arm of the San Gabriel Valley; after they split, SR 60 ascends slightly and then slopes through thePuente Hills and into thePomona Valley. Continuing east, SR 60 intersects theChino Valley Freeway (SR 71) inPomona,I-15 (Ontario Freeway) inJurupa Valley, and the Riverside Freeway (SR 91/I-215) inRiverside, California.
Another short overlap carries SR 60 traffic on the same roadway as I-215. The two routes head southeast; after the two freeways split, SR 60 is designated the Moreno Valley Freeway. The freeway runs through communities further east in the Inland Empire. After passing throughMoreno Valley, SR 60 runs through the rugged hill country to the east (known asthe Badlands to the locals). After that, SR 60 downgrades to anexpressway and has several at-grade interchanges with local roads. Finally, inBeaumont, SR 60 ends and merges into I-10 (Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway).
SR 60 traversesLos Angeles,San Bernardino, andRiverside counties. As it passes through many of Los Angeles' eastern suburbs in southern San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, it is a major transportation corridor. For the majority of its length, it is generally parallel to, and south of, theSan Bernardino Freeway, I-10, and generally parallel to and north of the Riverside Freeway, SR 91. The rapid population growth exacerbates traffic congestion and, therefore, residential, commercial, and industrial development in theInland Empire. In particular, it has become increasingly clogged of late withshipping container-laden trucks traveling from the ports of Los Angeles andLong Beach to rail yards and warehouses in the Inland Empire. As a result of the rapid development of the Inland Empire since the 1980s, the Moreno Valley Freeway now suffers from severe traffic congestion. In the mid-2000s, the northwestern section concurrently signed with Interstate 215 underwent significant construction to improve traffic flow, but it still suffers from heavy congestion.
The freeway is known as thePomona Freeway from its western terminus to its junction with SR 91 and I-215 in Riverside, and theMoreno Valley Freeway east of this interchange until its eastern terminus at its junction with I-10.[2] The route is part of theCalifornia Freeway and Expressway System,[3] and is part of theNational Highway System,[4] a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by theFederal Highway Administration.[5]
The route takes its number from formerUS 60, which now begins nearBrenda, Arizona, and terminates on the east coast atVirginia Beach, Virginia. Before 1964, US 60 ran fromLos Angeles to theArizona state line, where it continued its nationwide trek, often overlappingUS 99 andUS 70 along the way. The advent ofI-10 created a situation where, at one point, four different signed roads were routed along thestate-maintained highway.
In 1964, California implemented a plan to simplify its highway-numbering system, where one state highway had only one route number, and concurrencies were strongly discouraged. As a result, the US 60 designations (along with US 70 and US 99) were removed. I-10 (as Route 10) superseded US 60's alignment from Beaumont to the Arizona state line, even though the routing was only partly a freeway. This left the officially designated Route 60 from Beaumont to Los Angeles orphaned from its original U.S. Highway (which to this day begins at a point on I-10 several miles east ofQuartzsite, Arizona). This new Route 60 was provisionally signed as a U.S. Highway since the designation would guide motorists from Los Angeles to Arizona without a completed freeway for I-10; when all of Route 10 was upgraded to a freeway, the U.S. Highway designation disappeared.
At least two California highway signs managed to be overlooked for many years afterward. Along eastbound I-10 at the eastern end of theSan Gorgonio Pass, US 60 was co-signed with I-10 on the eastbound overhead signage withIndio as thecontrol city at the junction withSR 111. The signage remained as late as 1979 and had appeared in early scenes of the 1980 movieAmerican Gigolo where Julian Kay (played byRichard Gere) is en route toPalm Springs on a "substitute" assignment. Replacement overhead signs now have only I-10 with "Indio, other Desert Cities" as the control cities.[6] Another sign on Hess Boulevard atSR 62 in the unincorporated town ofMorongo Valley pointed not to I-10, but to US 60 (with evidence of the sign having pointed to both US 70 and US 99 as well) stood through the early 2000s; it has since been removed.[7]
The stretch of SR 60 along the Moreno Valley Freeway made national headlines in April 2004, when five-year-old Ruby Bustamante of Indio and her 26-year-old mother, Norma, were reported missing. Their car had left the road, apparently unwitnessed, between the gap in two guard rails on April 4. It then crashed underneath a tree in a deep ravine. Though Mrs. Bustamante died, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncookedTop Ramen noodles and bottles ofGatorade that were in the car.[8][9][10]
In 1998, the HOV lanes between SR 57 and I-15 opened.[11] In 2005, construction of an HOV lane started between I-605 and Redlands Boulevard in two phases.[12] The construction was finished in 2010 from I-605 to SR 57, and in 2008 from I-15 to Redlands Boulevard. The Grand Avenue (exit 24B) interchange went through some significant construction during this period, which included adding a direct HOV connector to SR 57 and an alternate route for SR 60 west to exit Brea Canyon Road (exit 23). There are no current plans to construct the HOV lanes from I-605 to theEast Los Angeles Interchange or Redlands Boulevard to I-10.
On December 14, 2011, a tanker truck carrying 8,800 US gallons (33,000 L) of gasoline caught fire and exploded on the Pomona Freeway inMontebello; this caused Caltrans to rebuild the Paramount Boulevard overpass.[13][14] Shortly after the rebuilding of the bridge, Caltrans did widening work on Paramount Boulevard's exit and entrance ramps to accommodate the new bridge and installed new traffic signals. There is also a connection to the Monterey Park Market Place via Neil Armstrong Street, a joint venture between Monterey Park and Montebello, which can be accessed through Paramount Boulevard.
In mid-2016, Caltrans started constructing a partial interchange at Lemon Avenue (to Brea Canyon Road) with no westbound exit. On May 1, 2018, the Lemon Avenue eastbound off-ramp exit and westbound on-ramp were opened, and the eastbound off-ramp exit to Brea Canyon Road was removed.[15] The project was finished in late 2018.
In 2020, Caltrans conducted a freeway rehabilitation project on the freeway from I-710 to I-605. The construction took two years and replaced the deteriorating concrete with new concrete. Construction started in 2020 and finished in 2022. Since the freeway was rehabilitated in sections, the entire median had to be replaced. In addition, as part of this project, Caltrans replaced the freeway signs with retro-reflective ones from the East LA interchange to Fairway Drive. All freeway signs in the median were replaced with new ones on the right hand side.[16] Signs between Fairway Drive and the San Bernardino-Los Angeles county line will be replaced once the widening work on SR 57 is complete.
To increase safety through the Badlands corridor between Moreno Valley and Beaumont, the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) partnered with Caltrans to complete a $138 million project to add a truck climbing lane in both directions at Gilman Springs Road and Jack Rabbit Trail. Construction began in the summer of 2019 and was completed in May 2022.[17][18]
Construction on the SR 57/SR 60 Interchange Improvements Project in the area around the SR 57/SR 60 overlap began in 2023 and is scheduled to be completed in 2028. The project will add an eastbound bypass lane between SR 57 southbound and Grand Avenue and between SR 57 northbound and Diamond Bar Boulevard. In addition, the Grand Avenue bridge is planned to be replaced with a wider bridge, and the eastbound off ramp will be redesigned. This is to affect theDiamond Bar Golf Course, which has been closed since 2021 to accommodate the freeway expansion.[19] The widening of SR 60 westbound has already been completed. The westbound freeway previously went through a major widening in 2006 and the Grand Avenue/SR 60 westbound interchange had further improvements finished in 2019.
The I-605 Corridor Improvement Project includes plans to reconstruct the SR 60/I-605 interchange. As of January 2024[update], the project is still going through the approval process.[20]
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the future Potrero Boulevard interchange near the Jack Rabbit Trail exit of SR 60 on February 1, 2018.[21][22] There are also plans to convert SR 60 from the Jack Rabbit trail exit to its eastern terminus (I-10) to a full freeway. If this segment is complete, the entire route will be up toInterstate standards. These plans are still only in the environmental phase and have not been approved yet.
Except where prefixed with a letter,postmiles were measured on the road as it was in1964, 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, seeCalifornia postmile § Official postmile definitions).[23] 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.
| County | Location | Postmile [23][1][24] | Exit [25][26] | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Los Angeles LA 0.00-R30.46 | Los Angeles | 0.00 | 1A |  I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) –Santa Monica | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; access to I-10 east is via exit 1E; western end of SR 60/Pomona Freeway and theEast Los Angeles Interchange; I-10 east exit 16B | |
| 0.04 | 1B | Santa Fe Avenue, Mateo Street | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
| R0.55 | 1A |  I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) –Santa Ana | Eastbound exit from I-10 only; I-5 north exit 134A heads directly to I-10 west | |||
| 1C |  US 101 north (Santa Ana Freeway) –Los Angeles | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||||
| 1D | Soto Street | Eastbound access via I-5 south or US 101 south; westbound entrance heads directly to I-10 west | ||||
| 1E |  I-5 north (Golden State Freeway north,I-10 east) –Sacramento | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastern end ofEast Los Angeles Interchange; I-5 south exit 134B | ||||
| R1.48 | 1D | Whittier Boulevard, Lorena Street | Signed as exit 1B eastbound; Whittier Boulevard was formerUS 101 | |||
| Los Angeles–East Los Angeles line | R1.94 | 2 | Indiana Street | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | ||
| East Los Angeles | R2.59 | 3A | Downey Road | |||
| R3.27 | 3B |  I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) /Valley Boulevard –Long Beach | I-710 north exit 20A, south exit 20B | |||
| Monterey Park | R4.43 | 4 | Atlantic Boulevard | |||
| Monterey Park–Montebello line | R5.16 | 6A | Findlay Avenue | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
| R5.89 | 6B | Garfield Avenue, Wilcox Avenue | Signed as exit 6 westbound | |||
| Montebello | R7.77 | 8 | Paramount Boulevard | |||
| Rosemead | R8.55 | 9 | San Gabriel Boulevard | |||
| | 9.51 | 10A |  SR 19 (Rosemead Boulevard) | |||
| South El Monte | 10.23 | 10B | Santa Anita Avenue | |||
| 11.01 | 11 | Peck Road | ||||
| Industry | 11.71 | 12 |  I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway) | I-605 exit 19 | ||
| 12.63 | 13 | Crossroads Parkway | ||||
| Hacienda Heights | 14.26 | 14 | Seventh Avenue | Signed as exits 14A (south) and 14B (north) eastbound | ||
| 15.93 | 16 | Hacienda Boulevard | FormerSR 39 | |||
| Industry–Hacienda Heights line | 17.97 | 18 | Azusa Avenue (CR N8) | Proposed route of future SR 39 | ||
| Rowland Heights–Industry line | 19.46 | 19 | Fullerton Road | |||
| 20.43 | 20 | Nogales Street | ||||
| Industry | R21.48 | 21 | Fairway Drive | |||
| Diamond Bar | 22.39 | 22 | Lemon Avenue to Brea Canyon Road | No westbound exit; interchange added in 2018[27][28][29] | ||
| R22.97 | 23 | Brea Canyon Road | Westbound entrance only; westbound exit removed in 2006; eastbound exit and entrance removed on May 1, 2018; westbound access via SR 57 and SR 60 Alt. west | |||
| — | SR 60 Alt. west ends | Westbound entrance only | ||||
| Diamond Bar–Industry line | R23.56 | 24A |   SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) –Santa Ana | Eastbound signage; SR 57 north exit 16 | ||
| — |    SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) / SR 60 Alt. west / Brea Canyon Road –Santa Ana | Western end of SR 57 overlap; westbound signage | ||||
| | ♦ | SR 57 south | HOV access only; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
| R24.45 | 24B | Grand Avenue | ||||
| Diamond Bar | R25.46 | 25 |  SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) | Eastern end of SR 57 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; westbound access is via exit 26 | ||
| R25.56 | 26 |  Diamond Bar Boulevard toSR 57 north | "To SR 57" not signed eastbound | |||
| Pomona | R28.04 | 28 | Phillips Ranch Road | |||
| R29.39 | 29A |  SR 71 south (Chino Valley Freeway) –Corona | Signed as exit 29B westbound; SR 71 north exit 12B | |||
| R29.39 | SR 71 north (Chino Valley Freeway) –Pomona | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastbound exit is via exit 29B; exit also included direct access to Rio Rancho Road; SR 71 south exit 12 | ||||
| R29.39 | 29B | Garey Avenue toSR 71 north (Chino Valley Freeway) | Signed as exit 29A westbound; "To SR 71" not signed westbound | |||
| R30.33 | 30 | Reservoir Street | ||||
| San Bernardino SBD R0.00-R9.96 | Chino | R1.37 | 32 | Ramona Avenue | ||
| R2.37 | 33 | Central Avenue | ||||
| Chino–Ontario line | R3.60 | 34 | Mountain Avenue | |||
| Ontario | R4.58 | 35 |  SR 83 (Euclid Avenue) | |||
| R5.86 | 36 |  Grove Avenue –Ontario Airport | ||||
| R6.86 | 37 | Vineyard Avenue | ||||
| R7.87 | 38 | Archibald Avenue | ||||
| R8.91 | 39 | Haven Avenue –Ontario Airport | ||||
| San Bernardino–Riverside county line | Ontario–Eastvale line | R9.96 | 41A | Milliken Avenue, Hamner Avenue | Signed as exit 40 eastbound; formerSR 31 | |
| Riverside RIV R0.00-30.50 | Eastvale–Jurupa Valley line | R0.49 | 41B |  I-15 (Ontario Freeway) –Barstow,San Diego | Signed as exit 41 eastbound; I-15 exit 106A-B | |
| Jurupa Valley | R1.99 | 42 | Van Buren Boulevard, Etiwanda Avenue,Mission Boulevard | |||
| R3.03 | 43 | Country Village Road, Mission Boulevard | ||||
| R4.55 | 45 | Pedley Road | ||||
| R5.58 | 46 | Pyrite Street | ||||
| 7.53 | 48 | Valley Way, Mission Boulevard | ||||
| 9.56 | 50 | Rubidoux Boulevard | ||||
| Riverside | 11.07 | 52A | Market Street –Downtown Riverside | |||
| 11.73 | 52B | Main Street | FormerUS 91 /US 395 | |||
| R12.06 | 53A |  SR 91 west (Riverside Freeway) –Riverside,Beach Cities | Signed as exit 34B westbound; formerUS 91 south; eastern end of Pomona Freeway; SR 91 east exits 65B-C | |||
| R12.21 43.27[a] | 53B |  I-215 north (Riverside Freeway) –San Bernardino,Barstow | Western end of I-215 overlap; SR 60 west follows I-215 north exit 34C; formerI-15E north /US 91 north /US 395 north | |||
| 42.84[a] | 34A[b] | Spruce Street | Closed[30] | |||
| 42.16[a] | 33[b] | 3rd Street, Blaine Street | ||||
| 41.49[a] | 32[b] | University Avenue | FormerUS 395 | |||
| 40.98[a] | 31[b] | Martin Luther King Boulevard | ||||
| 40.28[a] | 31[b] | El Cerrito Drive | Closed[30] | |||
| 39.48[a] | 30B[b] | Watkins Drive, Central Avenue | ||||
| R38.92[a] | 30A[b] | Fair Isle Drive –Box Springs | Westbound exit from SR 60 before merging with I-215 north; no direct access from I-215 north | |||
| R38.34[a] R12.21 | 58 | I-215 south (Escondido Freeway) –San Diego | Eastern end of I-215 overlap; western end of Moreno Valley Freeway; SR 60 east follows I-215 south exit 29; formerI-15E south /US 395 south | |||
| Riverside–Moreno Valley line | 13.31 | 59 | Day Street | |||
| Moreno Valley | 14.32 | 60 | Frederick Street, Pigeon Pass Road | To SR 60 Business, former US 60 east | ||
| 15.34 | 61 | Heacock Street | ||||
| 16.35 | 62 | Perris Boulevard | ||||
| 18.37 | 64 | Nason Street | ||||
| 19.20 | 65 | Moreno Beach Drive | ||||
| 20.37 | 66 | Redlands Boulevard | ||||
| 21.37 | 67 | World Logistics Center Parkway | Formerly Theodore Street[31] | |||
| 22.10 | 68 | Hemet,San Jacinto | Eastbound signage; formerSR 177 | |||
| Gilman Springs Road | Westbound signage; formerSR 177 | |||||
| Beaumont | 27.98 | 74 | Jack Rabbit Trail | Signed as exit 74A eastbound; Eastern end of freeway; at-grade intersection westbound and interchange eastbound | ||
| | 75 | Potrero Boulevard | Future interchange[32] | |||
| | Western Knolls Avenue | At-grade intersection; western end of freeway | ||||
| 30.50 | 93 | 6th Street –Beaumont | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; exit number follows I-10; connects to I-10 west | |||
| 30.50 |  I-10 east –Indio | No direct access to I-10 west; eastern end of SR 60/Moreno Valley Freeway; I-10 exit 93 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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