 View Enlarged Image This map will help guide you along the Arroyo Seco Parkway. |
Today, the area's natural and built environment form a seamless cultural landscape, strongly associated with the Arts and Crafts era, that continues to inspire generations.
Conceived in the parkway tradition with its gentle curves, lush landscape, and scenic vistas, the parkway also incorporated modern elements that laid the groundwork for the California freeway system.
Combining ideas reminiscent of the older parkway tradition with those of modern freeway design, the Arroyo Seco Parkway was the first divided-lane, high-speed, limited-access road in the urban western United States. The parkway was envisioned both as a scenic pleasure road traversing the Arroyo Seco and as a vital traffic conduit linking the expanding cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles.
Time to allow: One hour States it runs through: California Cities it runs through: Los Angeles, Pasadena Considerations: Oversize vehicles are prohibited on the byway. Instead of continuous shoulders, the highway has intermittent "turn-out pockets" for disabled vehicles. |
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