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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)
The route
The 22 begins at the intersection of 7th Street and Pacific Coast Highway (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.
Opened in the mid-1960s, the Garden Grove Freeway had the distinction of being one of the few 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.
State law
Legal Definition of Route 22: California Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2, Article 3, Section 322
Route 22 from Route 405 to Route 55 is known as the Garden Grove Freeway. Highway Commission (10/22/1957)
Source: 2004 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California (PDF)
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
Southern California freeways | California state highways | California Freeway and Expressway System
"State Route 22 (California)"