CALIFORNIA STATE ROUTE 178

'State Route 178' is a route that exists in two constructed segments. The gap in between segments is connected by various local roads and State Route 190 through Death Valley National Park.

Contents

Route description

Western segment

Eastern segment

Major intersections

Western Bakersfield

Eastern Bakersfield

Rural Kern County

Lake Isabella

Eastern Kern County

Death Valley to Nevada

State law

References

External links

Route description

Western segment

The first segment starts at State Route 99 just west of Downtown Bakersfield. The road continues as 24th street, but then splits at B St. utilizing 24th street as its westbound usage, and 23rd St. as its eastbound through the eastern part of Downtown Bakersfield. 178 then becomes a freeway as it departs Bakersfield. The freeway ends about 5 miles east of Downtown and becomes a two-lane conventional highway that ascends the lower Sierra Nevada Mountains on its way to Lake Isabella. Just south of Lake Isabella, the road briefly again becomes a divided limited access freeway, but later converts back to a two lane road at the at-grade junction with Lake Isabella Blvd. The road winds a little bit until it ascends to Walker Pass, an elevation of over 5000 feet. The highway then descends from the mountains to its junction with State Route 14. It then proceeds eastward across US-395 into the town of Ridgecrest, CA. The constructed highway ends at the turnoff for the Trona Pinnacles National Natural Landmark.

Eastern segment

The second segment resumes four miles west of Salisberry Pass in the southeasterly part of Death Valley National Park in Inyo County. It then meets up with State Route 127. 178 then branches northward from 127 to the California-Nevada State Line. In Nevada, the roadway continues as State Route 372 ending at State Route 160 near the center of Pahrump in Nye County. Plans to connect the two constructed segments in California are unlikely due to the would-be link's passage through Death Valley National Park.
The segment of California State Route 178 from California State Route 127 to the California-Nevada State Line as well as all of Nevada State Route 372 are both known as the Charles Brown Highway. Charles Brown, a former California State Legislator, was a major proponent for the incorporation of the segment of State Route 178 between State Route 14 and the California-Nevada state line into the California Highway System.

Major intersections

Western Bakersfield

Eastern Bakersfield

County	Location	Mile1	Exit #[2][3]		Destinations	Notes
			W	E
Kern	Bakersfield	1.96		2A	O Street	To Golden State Avenue
			2A		25x20px SR-204/99 BUS (Golden State Avenue), O Street
		2.41	2B		Union Avenue
		3.38	3		Beale Avenue
		4.09		4	Haley Street	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance only
		4.59	5		Mount Vernon Avenue
		5.60	6		Oswell Street

Rural Kern County

Lake Isabella

County	Location	Mile1	#23	Destinations	Notes
Kern	Lake Isabella	41.64	42	Bodfish/Havilah
		42.95	43	25x20px SR-155	Eastern terminus of SR-155

Eastern Kern County

End/begin western segment.

Death Valley to Nevada

State law

'Legal Definition of Route 178:' California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 478

References

1. California Log of Bridges on State Highways
2. SR-178 Westbound
3. SR-178 Eastbound

External links

★ West Coast Roads - California 178

★ California Highways - California 178

★ Western Exit Guide - California 178