California State Route 60

State Route 60
State Route 60
Route information
	Maintained by Caltrans
Length	70 mi (110 km)
Existed	1964–present
Major junctions
West end	I-5 / I-10 / US 101 in Los Angeles
	I-710 in East Los Angeles; I-605 in Industry; SR 57 in Diamond Bar; SR 71 in Pomona; I-15 in Jurupa Valley; SR 91 / I-215 in Riverside
East end	I-10 in Beaumont
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Highway system
	State highways in California; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; History; Pre‑1964; Unconstructed; Deleted; Freeways;

State Route 60 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs from Interstate 10 near the Los Angeles River in Los Angeles east to I-10 in Riverside County, with overlaps at State Route 57 and Interstate 215.

Route description

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System.^[2]

Route 60 serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of the San Gabriel Valley. The west terminus of the freeway is at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex. The east terminus is at the junction with Interstate 10 (I-10) in Beaumont. The freeway is known as the Pomona Freeway west of its junction with State Route 91 and Interstate 215 in Riverside. East of this interchange the freeway is known as the Moreno Valley Freeway until its terminus at its junction with Interstate 10. The freeway shares the alignment of the Orange Freeway, State Route 57 for some 2 miles (3.2 km) in Diamond Bar and also shares the alignment of Interstate 215 for about 5 miles (8.0 km) in Riverside. The route takes its number from former U.S. Route 60.

Pomona Freeway

The Pomona Freeway is the assigned name Route 60 (SR 60) between its western terminus at the East Los Angeles Interchange complex and its junction with the Riverside Freeway, State Route 91 (SR 91) and Interstate 215 (I-215) in Riverside.

It traverses through Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties. As it passes through many of Los Angeles' east side 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, the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10), and generally parallel to, and north of, the Riverside Freeway, California State Route 91. Traffic congestion is exacerbated by the rapid population growth and, therefore, residential, commercial, and industrial development in the inland communities known informally as the Inland Empire. In particular, it has become increasingly clogged of late with shipping container-laden trucks travelling from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to rail yards and warehouses in the Inland Empire.

Moreno Valley Freeway

The Moreno Valley Freeway is a freeway segment of State Route 60 and Interstate 215, connecting Riverside to communities further east in the Inland Empire and (via Interstate 10) to the Coachella Valley. Its western terminus is at the intersection of the Pomona (State Route 60) and Riverside Freeways (State Route 91 and Interstate 215), near downtown Riverside. The freeway is cosigned as State Route 60 and Interstate 215 for several miles in Riverside, traveling southeast, until the border between Riverside and Moreno Valley, where Interstate 215 branches southward as the Escondido Freeway, and State Route 60 (maintaining the Moreno Valley Freeway designation) branches eastward for approximately 20 miles (32 km). East of Moreno Valley, Route 60 technically loses its freeway status and becomes an expressway (because Caltrans has not yet found the money to close off all driveways and rebuild all at-grade intersections as grade-separated interchanges). After passing through Moreno Valley and the rugged hill country to the east (known as the Badlands to the locals), Route 60 ends at Interstate 10 in Beaumont.

As a result of the rapid development of the Inland Empire since the 1980s, the Moreno Valley Freeway now suffers from severe traffic congestion. The northwestern section that is concurrently signed with Interstate 215 recently underwent significant construction to improve traffic flow.

History

Before 1964, U.S. 60 ran from Los Angeles to the Arizona state line, where it continued its nationwide trek, often overlapping U.S. 99 and U.S. 70 along the way. The advent of Interstate 10 created a situation where, at one point, four different signed routes would run along the state-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 sternly discouraged. As a result, the U.S. 60 designation (along with U.S. 70 and U.S. 99) was removed. Interstate 10 (as Route 10) superseded U.S. 60's alignment from Beaumont and towards 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 Interstate 10 east of Quartzsite, Arizona). This new Route 60 was provisionally signed as a U.S. Highway since the designation would guide motorists from Los Angeles to Arizona in the absence of a completed freeway for Interstate 10; when all of Route 10 was upgraded to a freeway, the U.S. Highway designation disappeared.

At least one California highway sign managed to be overlooked for many years afterward. A sign on Hess Boulevard at California State Route 62 in the unincorporated town of Morongo Valley pointing not to Interstate 10 but to U.S. 60 (with evidence of the sign having pointed to both U.S. 70 and U.S. 99 as well) stood through the early 2000s. It has since been removed.^[3]

The stretch of Route 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 lost her life, presumably at the moment of impact, Ruby survived on her own for ten days on cups of uncooked Top Ramen noodles and bottles of Gatorade which were in the car.

On December 14, 2011, a tanker truck carrying 8,800 gallons of gasoline caught fire and exploded on the Pomona Freeway in Montebello, causing Caltrans to have to rebuild the Paramount Boulevard overpass.^[4]

Exit list

Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, 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, see California postmile § Official postmile definitions).^[5] 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 ^[5]^[6]^[7]	Exit ^[8]^[9]	Destinations	Notes
Los Angeles LA 0.00-R30.46	Los Angeles	0.00	1	I-10 west (Santa Monica Freeway) – Santa Monica	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		0.04	1A	Mateo Street, Santa Fe Avenue	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		0.38	1B	Soto Street	No eastbound exit
		R0.55	1A	I-5 south (Santa Ana Freeway) – Santa Ana	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R0.55	1C	I-5 north (Golden State Freeway) / US 101 north (Santa Ana Freeway) – Los Angeles, Sacramento	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R1.48	1D	Whittier Boulevard, Lorena Street	Signed as exit 1B eastbound
		R1.94	2	Indiana Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		R2.59	3A	Downey Road
		R3.27	3B	I-710 (Long Beach Freeway) – Pasadena, Long Beach
	Monterey Park	R4.43	4	Atlantic Boulevard
	Montebello	R5.16	6A	Findlay Avenue	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		R5.89	6B	Garfield Avenue, Wilcox Avenue	Signed as exit 6 westbound
		R7.77	8	Paramount Boulevard – Montebello
	Rosemead	R8.55	9	San Gabriel Boulevard – Rosemead
	Rosemead	9.51	10A	SR 19 (Rosemead Boulevard)
	South El Monte	10.23	10B	Santa Anita Avenue – South El Monte
	South El Monte	11.01	11	Peck Road
	Industry	11.71	12	I-605 (San Gabriel River Freeway)
		12.63	13	Crossroads Parkway
		14.26	14	Seventh Avenue – Industry	Signed as exits 14A (south) and 14B (north) eastbound
		15.93	16	Hacienda Boulevard	Former SR 39
		17.97	18	Azusa Avenue
		19.46	19	Fullerton Road
		20.43	20	Nogales Street
		R21.48	21	Fairway Drive – Walnut
	Diamond Bar	R22.97	23	Brea Canyon Road
		R23.56	24A	SR 57 south (Orange Freeway) – Santa Ana	West end of SR 57 overlap
		R24.45	24B	Grand Avenue – Diamond Bar
		R25.46	25	SR 57 north (Orange Freeway)	East end of SR 57 overlap; westbound exit is via exit 26
		R25.56	26	Diamond Bar Boulevard
	Pomona	R28.04	28	Phillips Ranch Road
		R29.39	29A	SR 71 (Chino Valley Freeway) – Pomona, Corona	Signed as exit 29B westbound; eastbound exit to SR 71 north is via exit 29B
		R29.39	29B	Garey Avenue	Signed as exit 29A westbound
		R30.33	30	Reservoir Street
San Bernardino R0.00-R9.96	Chino	R1.37	32	Ramona Avenue
		R2.37	33	Central Avenue
		R3.60	34	Mountain Avenue
	Ontario	R4.58	35	SR 83 (Euclid Avenue) – Ontario
		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		R9.96	40	Milliken Avenue, Hamner Avenue	Signed as exit 41A westbound; former SR 31
Riverside R0.00-30.50		R0.49	41	I-15 (Ontario Freeway) – Barstow, San Diego	Signed as exit 41B westbound
		R1.99	42	Van Buren Boulevard, Etiwanda Avenue, Mission Boulevard
		R3.03	43	Country Village Road, Mission Boulevard (SR 60 Bus. east)
		R4.55	45	Pedley Road
		R5.58	46	Pyrite Street
	Rubidoux	7.53	48	Valley Way, Mission Boulevard (SR 60 Bus.) – Rubidoux
	Rubidoux	9.56	50	Rubidoux Boulevard – Rubidoux
	Riverside	11.07	52A	Market Street – Downtown Riverside
		11.73	52B	Main Street
		R12.06	53A	SR 91 west (Riverside Freeway) – Riverside, Beach Cities	Signed as exit 34B westbound; former US 91 south
		R12.21 43.27^{[N 1]}	53B	I-215 north (Riverside Freeway) – San Bernardino, Barstow	West end of I-215 overlap; no exit number westbound; former I-15E north / US 91 north / US 395 north
		42.84^{[N 1]}	34A	Spruce Street	Closed^[10]
		42.16^{[N 1]}	33	3rd Street, Blaine Street
		41.49^{[N 1]}	32	University Avenue (SR 60 Bus. west)
		40.98^{[N 1]}	31	Martin Luther King Boulevard
		40.28^{[N 1]}	31	El Cerrito Drive	Closed^[10]
		39.48^{[N 1]}	30B	Watkins Drive, Central Avenue
		R38.92^{[N 1]}	30A	Fair Isle Drive – Box Springs	No westbound exit from I-215 north
		R38.34^{[N 1]} R12.21	58	I-215 south (Escondido Freeway) – San Diego	East end of I-215 overlap; no exit number eastbound; former I-15E south / US 395 south
		13.31	59	Day Street
	Moreno Valley	14.32	60	Frederick Street, Pigeon Pass Road (SR 60 Bus. via Sunnymead Boulevard)
		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 – Moreno
		21.37	67	Theodore Street
		22.10	68	Gilman Springs Road – Hemet, San Jacinto	Former SR 177
		27.98	74	Jack Rabbit Trail	Interchange eastbound; at-grade intersection westbound; no exit number westbound
	Beaumont		East end of freeway
			West end of freeway
		30.50		6th Street - Beaumont	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		30.50		I-10 east – Indio	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Closed/former Concurrency terminus Incomplete access