Crestwood Summit

{{Short description|Highway pass in California, U.S.}}

{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain pass

| name = Crestwood Summit

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| map = USA California Southern##California

| map_caption = Location in California

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| elevation = East bound {{convert|4181|ft|m}}
West bound at {{convert|4190|ft|m}}

| traversed =

| location = San Diego County, California

| range = Cuyamaca Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|32|42|28|N|116|22|22|W|type:pass_region:US-CA|display=it|name=Crestwood Summit}}

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Crestwood Summit is a highway pass through the Cuyamaca Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, California, traversed by Interstate 8. Its elevation is {{convert|4190|ft|m}} westbound, and {{convert|4181|ft|m}} eastbound. It is the highest point on Interstate 8.

Of the four {{convert|4000|ft|m}} highway summits east of San Diego, the first highway summit has been unnamed until "Carpenter Summit" was proposed in late 2019, now pending the United States Geological Survey approval. The second is Laguna Summit. Then comes the Crestwood Summit followed by the Tecate Divide.{{r|dot}}

The highway summit was named after Crestwood Road that runs north from Old Highway 80 and underneath I-8. It continues past the end of the county road into the Indian reservation. It is listed as BIA Rd. on Google Maps but clearly as Crestwood Road on Google Street View.[https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7039722,-116.3601172,3a,70.6y,60.44h,94.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWtBr7bfaEFi1RI90Aj1d2w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 View by clicking here]

The reservation of the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians occupies the summit, and the band maintained the La Posta casino at the summit until its closure in 2012. It was at 777 Crestwood Road, Boulevard, CA 91905.{{r|casino}}

That casino has been replaced by the "Golden Acorn Casino" supervised by the Campo Band of Diegueño Mission Indians, also known as the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Kumeyaay people on the Campo Indian Reservation.http://www.campo-nsn.gov/modernera.html|title=Campo{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Kumeyaay Nation History| Modern Era www.campo-nsn.gov|access-date=2017-03-24 The Self Determination Act of 1975, and by 1978, "the Campo people designated the area near the Crestwood freeway off-ramp as an area for economic development." Muht Hei, Inc. is the tribe's corporation.[http://www.campo-nsn.gov/windfarm.html "Muht Hei, Inc."] Campo Kumeyaay Nation. Retrieved 12 Aug 2013.

[https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7098306,-116.3758057,3a,75y,323.27h,86.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAXCWwMmfkYB12YNkKj2cKQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Google Street view of the I-8 summit area.]