Pasadena Freeway
CA 110

Page 1: US 101 to Interstate 5

Last modified: August 2001

The Pasadena Freeway was the first freeway built in California. Over the past 60 years it has been signed as US 6, US 66, CA 11, and is now CA 110.  The south end of the Pasadena Freeway, from US 101 to what is now I-5 was built in two timeframes, the northbound side was built as Figueroa Street in the early 1930s (it handled northbound and southbound traffic at the time) and the southbound side was completed in 1944 to extend the freeway south to Hill Street from San Fernando Road, where it joined up with the 1940 Arroyo Seco Parkway section.

4 Level Interchange signage

4 Level Interchange   4 Level Interchange

4 Level Interchange   College overpass

College overpass   Bridge detail

Dodger Stadium exit   Hill St exit

Hill St SB exit

First Tunnel   First Tunnel

Academy Road exit   Second Tunnel

L.A. City Seal   L.A. City Seal
  • The Los Angeles City Seal is on the portals of the Figueroa Street tunnels.

Park Row bridge   Tunnels 2,3,& 4
  • Left: Park Row bridge, built in 1942 over the southbound side.
  • Right: Tunnels 2, 3, & 4.

Tunnels 3 & 4   Tunnel 4

I-5 exit   L.A. River bridge

Pasadena Fwy over the L.A. River
Westways Magazine
  • At the Los Angeles River.

Figueroa exit   I-5 over CA 110
I-5 ramp to the Pasadena Fwy
California Hwys & Public Works


© 2001 Mark Furqueron