TheRidge Route was the popular name given to an early20th-century road in theUnited States. The Ridge Route wasCalifornia's firsthighway, linking theLos Angeles Basin with theSan Joaquin Valley; it was particularly used to travel from the city ofLos Angeles toBakersfield. Its official name was theCastaic-Tejon Route. In 1895, the State Bureau of Highways was created by GovernorJames H. Budd who appointed three highway commissioners: R.C. Irvine ofSacramento, Marsden Manson ofSan Francisco and L. Maude ofRiverside. Though a great deal of the route had been daylighted (widened) and paved in asphalt by the mid-1920s, much of the 1919concrete pavement remains intact. In some areas,Model Ttire tracks can still be seen, left decades ago in the still-soft concrete. (more...)

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