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Mileage reflects US 80 as it was in 1942. U.S. Route 80 (US 80) was a U.S. highway in California that continued east across the country to Georgia. The western terminus of US 80 was in San Diego, California, and it continued east through the city on several different alignments through the years. The highway went through the Cuyamaca Mountains ...
El Cajon Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California.Before the creation of Interstate 8 it was the principal automobile route from San Diego to El Cajon, the Imperial Valley, and points east as U.S. Route 80; it is now signed as a business loop of Interstate 8.
1. Marshal Scotty's Playland Park is an abandoned theme park in El Cajon, California. [1] The park contained multiple attractions, such as a railroad, a 20 ft (6.1 m) Ferris wheel, a water slide, a small roller coaster, and a tilt-a-whirl ride. The park is privately owned and is now mostly abandoned and fenced off. [1]
Cajon Pass. Cajon Pass (/ kəˈhoʊn /; Spanish: Puerto del Cajón or Paso del Cajón) [2][3] is a mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains to the east and the San Gabriel Mountains to the west in Southern California. Created by the movements of the San Andreas Fault, it has an elevation of 3,777 ft (1,151 m). [1]
U.S. Route 80 or U.S. Highway 80 (US 80) is a major east–west United States Numbered Highway in the Southern United States, much of which was once part of the early auto trail known as the Dixie Overland Highway. As the "0" in the route number indicates, it was originally a cross-country route, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
1652701, 2410406. Website. www.ci.el-cajon.ca.us. El Cajon (/ ɛl kəˈhoʊn / el kə-HOHN, Latin American Spanish: [el kaˈxon]; Spanish: El Cajón, [6] meaning "the box") is a city in San Diego County, California, United States, 17 mi (27 km) east of downtown San Diego. The city takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was named for the ...
Much of Alvarado Canyon Road from San Diego to La Mesa was originally built between 1947 and 1950, a bypass of the old US 80 routing along El Cajon Boulevard and La Mesa Boulevard. [34] Work began to convert the original US 80 divided highway into a freeway in 1960, [35] and the freeway was complete west of El Cajon by April 1962. [36]
Parkway Plaza was developed in the early 1970s, shortly after Plaza Camino Real in Carlsbad, as the second enclosed shopping mall in San Diego County. Building an indoor mall was ideal for the area, as El Cajon is notoriously hot during the summer. Since opening the mall, Parkway Plaza has expanded as necessary.