California State Highway 57 (CA/SR-57) is a major north-south freeway located entirely within Southern California. This freeway serves the cities and communities of the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area. The freeway is named the Orange Freeway throughout its entire length.
This freeway's north terminus is at its junction with the Foothill Freeway, Interstate 210 (I-210), in Glendora. The freeway continues south to the interchange with the San Bernardino Freeway, Interstate 10 (I-10) and Chino Valley Freeway, California State Highway 71 (CA/SR-71), in south San Dimas. It continues south into the Pomona Valley, where it merges and shares an alignment with the Pomona Freeway, California State Highway 60 (CA/SR-60), in Diamond Bar, California for several miles before separating and heading south. The freeway passes through the Santa Ana Mountains into Orange County. From the county line, its alignment is straight south to its terminus at its junction with the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), and the Garden Grove Freeway, California State Highway 22 (CA/SR-22), in southwestern Orange. This junction is also referred locally as the "Orange Crush interchange" for its infamous traffic congestion.
Cities/Communities along CA/SR-57 (north to south)
San Dimas
Pomona
Diamond Bar
City of Industry
Brea
Fullerton
Placentia
Anaheim
Orange
Major Freeways/Highways intersecting CA/SR-57 (north to south)
Orange County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.
Orange County is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Los Angeles County, on the northeast by San Bernardino County, on the east by Riverside County, and on the south by San Diego County.
The cities of Orange County are connected by a network of freeways, which residents typically call by their route number rather than their formal name (i.e., "The Fifty-five" instead of "The Costa Mesa Freeway").