Glendale Freeway Signed as California State Route 2 Major cities/towns: Echo Park Glassell Park Eagle Rock Glendale La Cañada Flintridge Direction: North-South Southern California freeways

California State Route 2; the Santa Monica Boulevard segment is highlighted in red, Alvarado Street is highlighted in green, the Glendale Freeway is highlighted in blue, and the Angeles Crest Highway is highlighted in purple. Concurrencies with the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) and the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) are highlighted yellow.

The Glendale Freeway is a minor freeway in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. It runs from Glendale Boulevard in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles to Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. Throughout its length, it is signed as California State Route 2. Planners originally intended for it to connect to the Hollywood Freeway in Echo Park, but community opposition killed the project by the 1960s; as a result, during games at nearby Dodger Stadium, there is often significant congestion in the areas around the freeway's terminus. The Glendale Freeway offers stunning vistas of the eastern San Fernando Valley, the Verdugo Mountains, the Crescenta Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains. Image File history File links California_2. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0. ... The lake in Echo Park. ... Glassell Park is a district in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... The Eagle Rock Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... La Cañada Flintridge is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Along with beaches, palm trees, and movie studios, the freeway is one of Southern Californias trademarks. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1572x984, 391 KB) Summary Map of the Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeway system with California State Route 2 highlighted. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1572x984, 391 KB) Summary Map of the Metropolitan Los Angeles Freeway system with California State Route 2 highlighted. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0. ... The Angeles Crest Highway winds through the mountains. ... The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. ... This U.S. Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject U.S. Highways. ... The Foothill Freeway is the name assigned to Interstate 210, a bypass interstate about 70 miles long located in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 LA 0. ... It has been suggested that Autobahn be merged into this article or section. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... The lake in Echo Park. ... La Cañada Flintridge is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE SR-1 LA 0. ... The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. ... Dodger Stadium, in Los Angeles, California, has been the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team since 1962. ... San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in Southern California, United States. ... The Verdugo Mountains are an offshoot range of the San Gabriel Mountains and are located in Los Angeles County, California. ... The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. ... San Gabriel Mountains The San Gabriel Mountains are located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, USA. The mountain range forms a barrier between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Mojave Desert. ...

Since the 1950s, proposals have been made to extend the Glendale Freeway to the Antelope Valley Freeway via a tunnel under the San Gabriels, relieving some of the latter freeway's notorious congestion. The difficulty of designing and building such a route and the cost of insuring it against earthquakes and terrorism would undoubtedly make perpetually cash-strapped Caltrans unable to undertake such an ambitious project. Southern California freeways The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. ... A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ... An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from and is powered by the sudden release of stored energy that radiates seismic waves. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... Caltrans logo The soaring ramps in the stack interchanges favored by Caltrans often provide stunning views. ...

Trivia

The section of freeway between the Ventura Freeway (134) and the Foothill Freeway (210) was largely completed in 1975, but not fully finished until 1979. During this time, the closed freeway was used as a location for several films, including Coffy, Corvette Summer, and the American television series Adam-12. The transition overpass from the eastbound Ventura Freeway to the northbound Glendale Freeway was prominently featured in the notorious disaster film Earthquake when a tractor-trailer crashes over the side of the overpass (a shot completed in miniature special effects). The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. ... California State Route 134, also known as the Ventura Freeway, runs from US Highway 101 in North Hollywood to Interstate 210 in Pasadena. ... The Foothill Freeway is the name assigned to Interstate 210, a bypass interstate about 70 miles long located in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. ... JUNCTION POSTMILE I-5 LA 0. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Coffy , Jack Hills 1973 movie about an African American woman vigilante, catapulted Pam Grier to stardom as one of blaxploitations biggest icons. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Adam-12 was a television program which ran from 1968 until 1975 on police officers, of the Rampart Division , veteran Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord), and their sergeant, played by William Boyett. ... The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. ... A disaster film is a film that has an impending or ongoing disaster (e. ... Earthquake is the title of a blockbuster 1974 film that was among several successful so-called disaster movies of the 1970s that places an all-star cast in life and death situations. ...

A sign along southbound Riverside Drive mistakenly points to Glendale Freeway as Interstate 2, or I-2, a federal highway[1]. I-2 is not a designation in the Interstate Highway System. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System, is a network of freeways in the United States. ...

Legal definition

Route 2 from Route 101 to Route 210. [State Highway Commission (8/17/1955)]

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

Communities served

Because of its relatively short length, the Glendale Freeway is often less congested in comparison to other Los Angeles freeways. The overpass from which this picture was taken was featured as a "collapsing" bridge in the 1974 disaster film Earthquake.

Cities and neighborhoods along its route include: The lovely Glendale Freeway (Highway 2), as photographed on July 7, 2004 from the transition ramp that connects the eastbound Ventura Freeway (Highway 134) to the northbound Glendale Freeway. ... The lovely Glendale Freeway (Highway 2), as photographed on July 7, 2004 from the transition ramp that connects the eastbound Ventura Freeway (Highway 134) to the northbound Glendale Freeway. ... Earthquake is the title of a blockbuster 1974 film that was among several successful so-called disaster movies of the 1970s that places an all-star cast in life and death situations. ...

• Echo Park
• Glassell Park
• Eagle Rock
• Glendale
• La Crescenta-Montrose
• La Cañada Flintridge

The lake in Echo Park. ... Glassell Park is a district in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... The Eagle Rock Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. ... Nickname The Jewel City Location Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ... La Crescenta-Montrose is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, encompassing those parts of the Crescenta Valley not in the cities of Glendale or La Cañada Flintridge. ... La Cañada Flintridge is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

Major intersections

Freeways intersecting with the Glendale Freeway include:

• Golden State Freeway
• Ventura Freeway
• Foothill Freeway