Sidetrack Adventures. Highway 39: California’s Lost Road, Closed for 40+ Years. Posted: March 5, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025. Once a scenic mountain highway, California’s Highway 39 ...

Just outside Los Angeles lies a road frozen in time. Highway 39 has been closed for over four decades, leaving behind a hauntingly beautiful stretch through the mountains. We drove it—and explored ...

State Route 39 was completed in 1961, but access to that 4.4-mile chunk was padlocked in 1978. It’s remained that way ever since, meaning the highway has now been closed longer than it was ever ...

The easily accessible Highway 39 from Azusa north to Crystal Lake Recreation Area has quite the wildflower display right now. Here's how to view the blooms while they last.

State Highway 39 that once connected to State Highway 2 — known as Angeles Crest ... the project was scuttled and the money was used to rebuild a bridge on Highway 1 in Northern California.

It has been 46 years since a landslide damaged a 4.4-mile chunk of State Highway 39, a highway ordered built by President Eisenhower in 1957. But the landslide severed the mountain road’s junction ...

State Highway 39 that once connected to State Highway 2 — known as Angeles Crest ... the project was scuttled and the money was used to rebuild a bridge on Highway 1 in Northern California.

Caltrans seeks comment on plan to reopen Highway 39 in forest after 46 years A 1978 landslide closed 4.4 miles of Highway 39. Caltrans holds hearing Tuesday in Azusa on a rebuild project ...

Finally, the state is in violation of its own rules, namely the California Streets and Highway Code, Section 91 and 100, which mandates the state maintain its state highways, and if gaps occur the ...