{"id":6869,"date":"2019-05-12T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T05:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2020-10-25T03:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:30:57","slug":"california-state-route-39-i-210-to-sr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=6869","title":{"rendered":"California State Route 39, I-210 to SR 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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APM:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Azusa Ave and Foothill Fwy, Azusa<\/p>\n

After I-210 we’re advised that state maintained 39 begins again in 1.25 miles.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Azusa Ave and 5th St, Azusa<\/p>\n

SR 39 breaks into a one way couplet as we pass through downtown Azusa.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: San Gabriel Canyon Rd and Ranch Rd, Azusa<\/p>\n

Signage indicating that the road to SR 2 is closed as we head out of Azusa. We’ll travel it anyway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>17<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and San Gabriel Canyon Rd, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The first closure gate on SR 39 as state maintenance resumes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>38<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and Crystal Lake Rd, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

No signage for many miles, but we’ll eventually get up to the permanent closure gate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>38<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 at the main closure gate, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The permanent closure gate. Time to go for a walk!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>38<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 at the main closure gate, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

At first, the road looks positively driveable – with postmiles and everything!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>39<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The road remains in good shape for the first mile or so.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>39<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

As we come around another bend, it starts to become more apparent that maintenance is lacking, but the road would still be perfectly driveable with minimal effort, it seems like.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM<\/strong>: 40<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

At about postmile 40 we’ll approach another closure gate – the road past here starts to actually degrade in condition.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>40<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The center stripe disappears.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>40<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Though there are remnants of it from past paving jobs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>40<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The first small rockslide – though it’s still not that bad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>40<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty
\nCuriously, there is a cone in the road.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0APM:\u00a0<\/strong>41<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The first major slide area – it appears at one point there was an attempt to keep the road open as a one lane road.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>41<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

Weirdly, there’s a stop sign here facing southbound that doesn’t even look that old. There was no installation date sticker.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>41<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

More cones.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>42<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

This sure is a beautiful road though – and very pleasant to walk alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

Approaching another slide area.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

There are signs at the north end discouraging pedestrians along this route (though nothing at the south end where I started!) – when I walked this in January there was quite a bit of snow with some pretty gnarly black ice under it – I can totally see why Caltrans wouldn’t want people out here. I’m from snow country though, so I chugged along.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The road doesn’t drain like it used to, I suspect.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

More failing road as I walk around another corner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0APM:\u00a0<\/strong>43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

Fairly new looking guardrail though.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>43<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

Another minor rock fall as SR 2 comes into view along the ridge in the distance.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

More new looking guardrail.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and SR 2, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The road falls apart again though one more time before SR 2.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and SR 2, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

Facing back southbound – this rusty postmile is the only original looking sign left after the second closure gate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and SR 2, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

The road widens out again one last time before SR 2.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

APM:\u00a0<\/strong>44<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: SR 39 and SR 2, Los Angeles Cty<\/p>\n

We made it! Turn left for 2 west and right for 2 east. Overall, this is a pleasant, cool, and generally unchallenging walk that feels positively dystopian.\u00a0 I’d recommend doing it in the summer or bring snowshoes if you aren’t sure-footed. Note that from the north side parking lot there is a sign indicating pedestrians are prohibited.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0 S to I-10<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0W to I-210<\/a>, E to SR 138<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0E to SR 57\/SR 210<\/a>,\u00a0W to I-605<\/a><\/p>\n

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APM:\u00a0N\/A Location: Azusa Ave and Foothill Fwy, Azusa After I-210 we’re advised that state maintained 39 begins again in 1.25 miles. APM:\u00a0N\/A Location: Azusa Ave and 5th St, Azusa SR 39 breaks into a one way couplet as we pass through downtown Azusa. APM:\u00a0N\/A Location: San Gabriel Canyon Rd and Ranch Rd, Azusa Signage indicating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}