California State Route 59

SR 59 begins at SR 152 as Los Banos Highway. The highway travels north through the town of El Nido until entering the city of Merced, where it runs concurrently with the SR 99 freeway and with SR 140. SR 59 leaves the concurrency on the west side of Merced and travels north as the Snelling Highway. The highway winds up the Sierra Nevada foothills until it passes through Snelling, where it ends.{{Cite map| publisher=Thomas Brothers| title=California Road Atlas| year=2008}}

SR 59 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System,{{CAFESystem}} but except for a portion in Merced is not part of the National Highway System,{{FHWA NHS map|region=californianorth|accessdate=October 14, 2017}}
{{FHWA NHS map|region=merced|accessdate=October 14, 2017}} a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.{{FHWA NHS}}

In January 2010, the Tuolumne County board of supervisors made a formal request to the state to add the entire length of County Route J59 as a northerly extension of State Route 59 from its terminus in Snelling, Merced County, to the intersection of State Routes 108 and 120 in Tuolumne County.

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{{Caltrans bridgelog|date=April 2008}}California Department of Transportation, [http://traffic-counts.dot.ca.gov/ All Traffic Volumes on CSHS], 2007

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{{CAint

|location=none

|postmile=0.00

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|152|city1=Madera|city2=Los Banos}}

|notes=Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance; south end of SR 59

}}

{{CAint

|location=Merced

|lspan=7

|type=concur

|postmile=14.77

|line=yes

|postmile2=14.69Indicates that the postmile represents the distance along SR 99 rather than SR 59.

|pmspan=2

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|99|dir1=south|SR|140|dir2=east|city1=Los Angeles|city2=Yosemite|road|Martin Luther King Jr. Way}}

|notes=Interchange; south end of SR 99 / SR 140 overlap; SR 99 exit 187B

}}

{{Jctplace

|state=CA

|mile=none

|place=South end of freeway on SR 99

}}

{{Jctplace

|state=CA

|postmile=15.80

|line=yes

|postmile2=14.78

|pmspan=2

|place=North end of freeway on SR 99

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{{CAint

|type=concur

|mile=none

|road={{Jct|state=CA|SR|99|dir1=north|SR|140|dir2=west|name2=McSwain Road|city1=Sacramento|city2=Gustine|road|V Street}}

|notes=Interchange; north end of SR 99 / SR 140 overlap; SR 99 exit 188

}}

{{CAint

|type=concur

|postmile=14.98

|road=V Street, 16th Street south (SR 99 Bus. south)

|notes=South end of SR 99 Bus. overlap; former US 99 south

}}

{{CAint

|type=concur

|postmile=15.35

|road=16th Street north (SR 99 Bus. north)

|notes=North end of SR 99 Bus. overlap; former US 99 north

}}

{{CAint

|postmile=16.10

|road={{Jct|state=CA|CR|J7|county1=Merced|name1=Santa Fe Drive|road|West Olive Avenue}}

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location=none

|postmile=19.00

|road=Bellevue Road – Yosemite Lake

|notes=Serves UC Merced

}}

{{CAint

|location=none

|postmile=R28.81

|road={{Jct|state=CA|CR|J17|county1=Merced|name1=Turlock Road|city1=Turlock}}

|notes=

}}

{{CAint

|location=Snelling

|lspan=2

|type=concur

|postmile=33.00

|road={{Jct|state=CA|CR|J16|dir1=west|county1=Merced|name1=Montgomery Street}}

|notes=South end of CR J16 overlap

}}

{{CAint

|type=concur

|postmile=33.71

|road={{Jct|state=CA|CR|J16|CR|J59|dir1=east|county1=Merced|county2=Merced|name1=Merced Falls Road|name2=La Grange Road|city1=Merced Falls|city2=Hornitos|city3=La Grange|city4=Sonora}}

|notes=North end of CR J16 overlap; north end of SR 59

}}

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{{reflist|group="N"}}

• {{portal-inline|California Roads}}

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• Compass Maps: Merced, Atwater, Merced County

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{{CASR external links|SR|59}}

• [http://www.cahighways.org/057-064.html#059 California Highways: Route 59]
• [http://www.aaroads.com/california/ca-059.html California @ AARoads.com - State Route 59]

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Category:Merced, California