Highway in California This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Route 22 CS&HC Sec. 322 Length: 15 mi (24 km) Major cities/towns: Long Beach Seal Beach Garden Grove Westminster Orange Santa Ana Direction: East-West JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0.00 I-405 ORA 0.65 SR-39 ORA 3.59 I-5 ORA 10.48 SR-55 ORA 13.17 Legend   deleted (no longer in system)   unconstructed   closed   crossing with no access   begin/end concurrency, bold route is carried through   a bold route on white background indicates termini. Prev Next < Route 21 Route 23 > California State Highways Current - Unconstructed - Deleted - Scenic

California State Route 22 is an east-west highway in southern Los Angeles County and northern Orange County, California. 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, California (the other being the Riverside Freeway approximately eight miles (13 km) to the north) A mile is a unit of distance (or, in physics terminology, length) currently defined as 5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, or 63,360 inches. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 170. ... Seal Beach is a city in Orange County, California. ... Garden Grove, is a city centrally located in northern Orange County, California, United States. ... Westminster is a city located in Orange County, California. ... Location of Orange within Orange County, California. ... Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 ORA 0. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Los Angeles County is a county in California with 10,179,716 residents (as of July 2004)[1], the most populous county in the United States. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 LA 48. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Location Location of Orange County within California. ... California State Route 39 (CA/SR-39) is a north-south route that travels through Orange and Los Angeles counties. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # Mexican Federal Highway 1/ Mexican Border CA 0 I-15 CA 13 I-8 CA 20 I-10 CA 134-135 I-80 CA 522 I-84 OR 300 (North) OR 301 (South) I-90 WA 164 BC-99 / Canadian Border WA 276 Legend BROWSE STATE... Route marker sign: Interstate 5 File links The following pages link to this file: List of Interstate Highways Interstate 5 Interstate 705 Interstate 605 Interstate 805 Interstate 505 California State Route 91 California State Route 55 California State Route 57 Interstate 405 (California) Interstate 105 (California) California State Route 14... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 OC 0. ... California State Route 55 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... A multiplex or concurrency on a road network occurs where a single physical road carries two or more different highway, motorway or other road numbers. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... California State Route 21, or California 21 or CA-21 for short, is the name of a defunct north-south highway, which Interstate 680 has wholly supplanted in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-126 VEN 24. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Example signage of the Califonia State Route System. ... For a list of currently routed California State Routes, please see List of California State Routes. ... Below contains a list and summary of the deleted California State Routes (i. ... The following highways are designated, in whole or part, by the State of California as California State Scenic Highways: California State Highway 1 California State Highway 2 - From 2. ... Los Angeles County is a county in California with 10,179,716 residents (as of July 2004)[1], the most populous county in the United States. ... Location Location of Orange County within California. ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 170. ... Location of Orange within Orange County, California. ... Garden Grove, is a city centrally located in northern Orange County, California, United States. ... Location Location of Orange County within California. ... Southern California freeways The Riverside Freeway is the assigned name of a segment of California State Route 91 (CA/SR-91), a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California that links the cities/communities of Orange and Riverside counties. ...

The route

The 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (California State Route 1) in Long Beach. Then, 7th Street widens from an expressway into the Garden Grove 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 and Interstate 605 (called Malfunction Junction by commuters) and runs concurrently with it for approximately five miles before the two routes diverge in eastern 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. It continues along the border of Orange and Santa Ana for three miles (5 km) until terminating at the Costa Mesa Freeway. JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 ORA 0. ... An expressway is a divided highway, usually 4 lanes or wider in size, where direct access to adjacent properties has been eliminated. ... The San Gabriel River flows 75-miles through southern Los Angeles County, California. ... Interstate 405 is the designation of three different tertiary interstate routes of Interstate 5. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 ORA ?? SR-22 ORA T2. ... Seal Beach is a city in Orange County, California. ... Garden Grove, is a city centrally located in northern Orange County, California, United States. ... Westminster is a city located in Orange County, California. ... The Orange Crush interchange, is a freeway interchange in the City of Orange, in Orange County, California. ... Southern California freeways The Santa Ana Freeway is one of the principal freeways in Southern California, connecting Los Angeles, California and its southeastern suburbs. ... California State Highway 57 (CA/SR-57) is a major north-south freeway located entirely within Southern California. ... Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California. ... Summary California State Route 55, or the Costa Mesa Freeway (generally known as the 55 but sometimes referred to by its older name, the Newport Freeway) is a 18 mile north-south highway in Orange County, California running between Newport Beach and Anaheim at California State Route 91. ...

Opened in the mid-1960s, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the only freeways in Southern California to never have been widened from its original alignment. This resulted in its suffering from severe rush hour congestion, particularly as Santa Ana's population surged to nearly half a million during the 1990s. In late 2004, OCTA began a widening project that would add one mixed-flow and one high occupancy vehicle lane to the route in each direction, as well as updating onramps and offramps to contemporary standards. A permanent, separated high-occupancy vehicle lane on I-91 in Connecticut A high occupancy vehicle (or HOV) is any vehicle with a driver and one or more (or sometimes two or more, or three or more) passengers. ...

State law

Legal Definition of Route 22: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 322

Route 22 is part of the Freeway and Expressway System, as stated by section 253.3 of the California State Highway Code.

Route 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway. [State Highway Commission (10/22/1957)] Image File history File links CA-blank. ...

Source: 2004 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California (PDF)

State Route 22/Garden Grove Freeway (highlighted in red)

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x952, 314 KB) Summary Map of the Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeway system with State Route 22/Garden Grove Freeway highlighted. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x952, 314 KB) Summary Map of the Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeway system with State Route 22/Garden Grove Freeway highlighted. ...

External links

• WestCoast Roads- California 22
• Caltrans: Route 22 highway conditions
• California Highways: CA-22
• OCTA - SR-22
• Western Exit Guide - California 22
• Cal-NExUS: Route 22 East
• Cal-NExUS: Route 22 West