California State Route 22

"CA 22" redirects here. For the congressional district, see California's 22nd congressional district.

State Route 22
Route information
Defined by S&HC § 322
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:	14.725 mi (23.698 km) SR 22's length is broken into pieces and therefore does not reflect the overlaps that would be required to make the route continuous.
Existed:	1934 – present
Major junctions
West end:	SR 1 in Long Beach
	I-405 / I-605 in Seal Beach I-5 / SR 57 in Santa Ana
East end:	SR 55/North Tustin Ave in Orange
Highway system
State highways in California List Pre-1964 History Unconstructed Deleted Freeway Scenic ← SR 20 SR 23 →

State Route 22 (SR 22) in the U.S. state of California is an east–west highway in southern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County. It runs between Long Beach and Orange by way of Garden Grove. The westernmost part of it is a surface street, Long Beach's 7th Street. From Long Beach to its eastern terminus in Orange, it is known as the Garden Grove Freeway. It is one of the two principal east–west routes in Orange County (the other being the 91 Freeway approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north).

Route description

SR 22 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System. SR 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway, as named by the State Highway Commission on October 22, 1957. An 8-mile (13 km) stretch of Route 22 is named the Garden Grove Police Officers Memorial Highway to honor police officers killed in the line of duty.

SR 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) in Long Beach. Then, 7th Street widens from an expressway into a freeway just before crossing the San Gabriel River (and with it, the Los Angeles/Orange County line). It then merges with the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) at the Interstate 605 interchange and runs concurrently with it for approximately three miles before the two routes diverge in northeastern Seal Beach. Thereafter, the Garden Grove Freeway travels mostly within the city of Garden Grove or along its border with neighboring Westminster. Just inside the Orange city limits, the freeway enters the infamously congested Orange Crush interchange with the Santa Ana and Orange Freeways (Interstate 5 and State Route 57, respectively). It continues along the border of Orange and Santa Ana for 3 miles (4.8 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway (State Route 55).

History

SR 22 was originally designated in 1934, when the state highway system was first numbered. Before the freeway was built, it was routed along Garden Grove Boulevard (formerly Ocean Avenue).

Opened in 1967, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the few freeways in Southern California to have never been widened from its original alignment, eventually resulting in severe rush hour congestion, particularly as Santa Ana's population surged to over 300,000 during the 1990s.

In late 2004, in response to California's budgetary deficit, OCTA began a widening project to add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as reconfiguringe and upgrading on and off ramps to contemporary standards at several interchanges, all funded by Measure M, the half-cent tax of Orange County, CA. This $700 million Design-Build projected completed in a record 2 year time frame in 2007 was led by consortium composed of Granite Construction and URS Corp. as the lead designer along with several sub-consultants. A second phase to add HOV lane interchanges at the I-605 junction and at the split with I-405 is currently under construction.

Major intersections

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.

County	Location	Postmile	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Los Angeles LA 0.00-1.47	Long Beach	0.00		SR 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) / 7th Street	Access from SR 22 west to SR 1 south is via Bellflower Boulevard
		0.08		Bellflower Boulevard
			West end of freeway
		1.14	1	Studebaker Road
Orange ORA 0.00-R13.16	Seal Beach	R0.37- R0.65 23.28	2	I-405 north (San Diego Freeway) / I-605 north (San Gabriel River Freeway) – Santa Monica	West end of I-405 overlap; no exit number westbound; former SR 7
		22.64	22	Seal Beach Boulevard, Los Alamitos Boulevard
	Westminster	20.75 R0.66		I-405 south (San Diego Freeway) – San Diego	East end of I-405 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Garden Grove	R0.92	5A	Bolsa Chica Road, Valley View Street	Signed as exits 5A (Bolsa Chica Road) and 5B (Valley View Street) eastbound
		R2.65	7	Knott Street, Golden West Street
	Westminster	R3.59	8	SR 39 (Beach Boulevard)
	Garden Grove	R4.81	9	Magnolia Street
		R5.82	10	Brookhurst Street – Garden Grove
		R6.81	11	Euclid Street – Garden Grove
		R7.83	12	Harbor Boulevard	Signed as exits 12A (south) and 12B (north) eastbound
		R8.82	13	Fairview Street, Haster Street
	Orange	R9.73	14A	The City Drive
	Santa Ana	R10.01	14B	Bristol Street	No westbound exit
	Orange	R10.48	14C	I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R10.48	14D	I-5 north (Santa Ana Freeway) / SR 57 north (Orange Freeway) – Los Angeles, Pomona	Signed as exit 14B westbound
	Santa Ana	R10.99	15	Main Street
	Orange	R11.83	16	Glassell Street, Grand Avenue
		R12.87	17A	Tustin Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R13.16	17	SR 55 (Costa Mesa Freeway) – Riverside, Newport Beach	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; signed as exits 17B (south) and 17C (north)
Concurrency terminus       Closed/former       HOV only       Incomplete access       Tolled/ETC       Unopened

See also

• California Roads portal
• U.S. Roads portal

External links

• California @ AARoads.com - State Route 22
• Caltrans: Route 22 highway conditions
• California 22 @ Asphaltplanet.ca