CA 147

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm down to only one remaining pre-2016 California Highway blogs following the completion of the below article on CA 147.  I drove much of CA 147 back in 2014 when I was on a National Park kick in Northern California.  CA 147 is a small 12 mile State Highway which runs along the east shore of Lake Almanor between CA 89 in Plumas County north to CA 36 in Lassen County.  The roadways that comprised CA 147 appear to have been built or at least present when Canyon Dam was first completed by 1914.  I didn't note much exciting about the alignment history of CA 147 aside from the renumbering in 1964.

https://www.gribblenation.org/2019/07/california-state-route-147.html

[sparker]

I'm down to only one remaining pre-2016 California Highway blogs following the completion of the below article on CA 147.  I drove much of CA 147 back in 2014 when I was on a National Park kick in Northern California.  CA 147 is a small 12 mile State Highway which runs along the east shore of Lake Almanor between CA 89 in Plumas County north to CA 36 in Lassen County.  The roadways that comprised CA 147 appear to have been built or at least present when Canyon Dam was first completed by 1914.  I didn't note much exciting about the alignment history of CA 147 aside from the renumbering in 1964.

https://www.gribblenation.org/2019/07/california-state-route-147.html

IIRC, the CA 147 alignment was taken into the state highway system in the late '50's or early '60's as the 2nd iteration of LRN 183 (the first was the decommissioned Bolsa Ave./original SSR 26 alignment in Orange County).  It's well known to RR enthusiasts, as the BNSF "Inside Corridor" line to Klamath Falls, OR (formerly Western Pacific) sits adjacent to most of CA 147 on a ledge right above the highway.