Chowchilla Canal Road

[Max Rockatansky]

Chowchilla Canal Road is an approximately six-mile-long component of what is now signed as Madera County Road 13.  This roadway was built as a frontage of the modern Chowchilla Bypass Canal in the 1960s south of Ripperdan Avenue (now Avenue 7) to the San Joaquin River.  During rare periods where water has been low in the San Joaquin River an earthen ford has connected Chowchilla Canal Road to San Mateo Avenue in Fresno County.  The Chowchilla Canal Road/Ripperdan Avenue intersection was relocated west of the Chowchilla Canal Bypass berm between 2013-2015.  The original intersection can still be found in an abandoned and semi-razed state.

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