The Road Today
Today, several modern highways cover parts of the historic route, though large sections are on city streets (for instance, most of the stretch between San Jose and San Francisco). Its full modern route, as defined by the California State Legislature, is as follows:
- Interstate 5, U.S.-Mexico border to Anaheim
- Anaheim Boulevard, Harbor Boulevard, State Route 72 and Whittier Boulevard, Anaheim to Los Angeles
- U.S. Route 101, Los Angeles to San Jose
- State Route 82, San Jose to San Francisco
- Interstate 280, San Francisco
- U.S. Route 101, San Francisco to Novato
- State Route 37, Novato to Sears Point
- State Route 121, Sears Point to Sonoma
- State Route 12, Sonoma
- East Bay route
- State Route 87, Pass through Santa Clara County and Alameda County.
- State Route 92
- State Route 238
- State Route 185, Hayward to Oakland
- State Route 123, Oakland to San Pablo (continued to Martinez)
Some older local roads that parallel these routes also have the name. Many streets throughout California today bear the name of this famous road, often with little factual relation to the original; but Mission Street in San Francisco and its counterpart in Santa Cruz do correspond to the historical route. A surviving, unpaved stretch of the road has been preserved next to the old Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, California; this road actually follows part of the San Andreas Fault.
Read more about this topic: El Camino Real (California)
Famous quotes containing the words road and/or today:
“How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away,
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)