Man, I just love how the northbound and southbound lanes of I-5 separate when going up and down those enormous mountains! It makes me think of driving on the I-15! I love the Golden State Freeway!
Man this is tight! Very inspiring too! I'm gonna do i5 from Tacoma through seattle, shoreline, mountlake terrace. Lynnwood, everett and marysville. I drive it all the time and night and it's strangely beautiful!
Wow, another great video that you have done. I always enjoy these "rides" through the many beautiful places you have chosen. Something of interest, though hard to fathom, the Santa Fe in 1923 was planning a railroad line through the Grapvine with a 7300' tunnel at the summit on the LA/Kern County line. All those steep rugged cliffs between Wheeler Ridge and Ft Tejon. Would have been an engineering marvel for sure. Thanks again for the great video, keep up the good work, I really enjoy these.
I've been over this pass so many times I can't count. As you're driving the last 30 miles from Bakersfield to Grapevine, the mountains eventually loom majestically in front of you. How to get from 200 feet above sea level to 3000 feet above sea level in 5 miles??? They're so steep that building the original Ridge Route was considered an engineering marvel. Far too steep for a railroad, so it's no surprise that the railroad completely bypassed Tejon Pass and went east to Tehachapi instead, and even then had to go the Tehachapi Loop to be able to reach the summit.
For those who are not aware, when the car passes HWY 138 and Gorman, its passing over the San Andreas Fault line . . . which runs from Fraizer Park (northwest), past Gorman, and follows HWY 138 to the southeast through Wrightwood.
Great Video, the Tejon And The Grapevine looked amazing. I would have liked to see the mostly flat and boring Central Valley. The scenery for the beginning of that area looked fine to me. I'm into all that. Flat lands, mountains, trees, rivers, lakes. Just the landscape of it all.
When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, this stretch of road was part of old 99 and was referred to as the Ridge Route. Grapevine was the little truck stop at the north end of the Ridge Route. The nomenclature started to change in the 70s and 80s. Us old guys still call it the Ridge Route.
Why does the freeway switch sides near Castaic? Because going north, you're on the old US 99. This was considered too steep for 18-wheelers to go down, so they built a longer and less steep 4-laner to the east, to take southbound traffic into LA. US 99 is now at the bottom of Pyramid Lake.
For the curious, the highest point on I-5 is Siskiyou Summit in Oregon, just north of the Oregon/California border, at 4,310 feet. This is the point where I-5 crosses the Siskiyou sub-range of the Cascade mountains/coast mountains before descending to the Rogue River valley.
Never encountered that. In the Northeast try I-476 decending from Exit 87 PA-903 to Lehigh Tunnel via Exit 74 US-209. Wind Gap PA-33 101st airborne hwy.
I've always wanted to see what I-5 looked like between LA and the Central Valley. 8 lanes and with heavy traffic for a "rural" section of road? Amazing. No wonder CAHSR expects widening CA's roads and airports to be more expensive than building two tracks for true HSR between LA and SF.
I passed through here last week coming back from visiting my relatives in Yuba City, just north of Sacramento. Out of nowhere it started raining and windy. Traffic frozed to a complete stop at Tejon Ranch because a tree branch fell down blocking lanes. I was stuck for about an hour and a half. The day before that I travelled through Mojave from San Bernardino via CA-58 to see if it was faster than using I-5. Traffic was light, road was a bit curvy, but it was ok. I think I-5 is faster though.
Having lived in Southern California thru the 90s and driving to Seattle every summer, this is a great video...fast speed but not that ridiculously sped-up time lapse junk! Thanx, and music is ok but country western is my preference for long distance interstate driving, especially when going all the way to Seattle! Good job tho!
Why do the nb lanes switch with the sb lanes ? Is it because of the elevation ? Good video nevertheless I have watched over and over for a lot of times and it never fails 👍🏻
@ScrewdUPClickV2 it has more to do with a decent. The south takes a gentler slope down due to the switch because the climb starts a mile after the bridge on the Northbound lanes
There's good AND bad things about RU-vid, just like with everything else on the Net. THIS and videos like it is one of the GOOD things about RU-vid. :) :) :)
Were people flyin along pretty fast while you were doing this video? I've long heard about people driving 80-90 mph down in So Cal, and even saw it a time or two while I was down there. So just wondering if it's usually that way... lol
I went up north to visit San Francisco and I prefer taking interstate 5 over highway 101 since the 5 has a higher speed limit and the 101 passes through multiple costal cities. If you want t sight see you should take the 101
Anyone know if I take hwy 1 down to L.A. From the Bay Area that I will encounter a large mtn like this? (I have a terrible ear problem) I went to L.A. And haven't been able to drive or fly since because of this terrible pressure already built in my ears from TMJ.
Is there a reason why the NB and SB lanes switch sides? Or did CA just do it to be cool? My guess is its an easier climb for NB to be where the SB lanes should be but idk I am just guessing
Because going north, you're on the old US 99. This was considered too steep for 18-wheelers to go down, so they built a longer and less steep 4-laner to the east, to take southbound traffic into LA. US 99 is now at the bottom of Pyramid Lake.
The thumping music sound detracts from this excellent video. It hurts my ears and head. Won't be watching anymore of Screwdupclickv2 until he cease the sound noise.
I'm not a huge fan of The Grapevine Mountains. although it does have beautiful scenery. but its like a roller coaster going through The Grapevine. Oh and going through The Shasta Lake Mountains when you enter California from Oregon.
Allen Greene Not really. Off the top of my head, I would say that 70% of California is hilly to just plain mountainous. The major flat area is, the San Joaquin Valley.
Self absorbed, selfish and oblivious of others. That explains the habitual #1 lane drivers. These people have no regards for their fellow motorists. I notice immediate difference when I cross over to Oregon. This causes people to pass on #2 or #3 lanes which makes driving dangerous. I wish CHP would enforce this, but this is not a law. Just a common courtesy Californian drivers are not used to practicing.
ScrewdUP, the song beginning simply idiotic. You like to listen as you knock on a head? Whether it was impossible to rewind a song to a normal place? I like your videos, but music sometimes very irritates. For example in I-10 West Phoenix music good. Sorry for bad eng.
