Interstate 5

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## Interstate

**Interstate 5** is a north-south highway running from Blaine, Washington to San Diego, California, but also serves Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia in Washington, Portland, Salem, Eugene, and Medford in Oregon, and Redding, Sacramento, and Los Angeles in California.

## Route Description

### Washington

I-5 begins at BC 99 at the Peach Arch north of Blaine, Washington. Afterwards it moves south, passing Blaine, Bellingham, Burlington, where it meets WA 20, Mount Vernon, Conway, Marysville, Everett, where it meets US 2, and Eastmont, then it splits into I-5 and I-405. I-405 passes to the east of Seattle, and I-5 goes downtown. In downtown, it passes WA 104, WA 523, WA 522, NE 50th St, NE 45th St, Harvard Ave E, Boylston Ave E, WA 520, Mercer Street, E Denny Way, E Olive Way, Pike Street, and many streets in Downtown. It then passes through the south neighborhoods, passing I-90, Forest Street, Columbus Way, Spokane Street Viaduct, King County Airport, I-405/WA 518, and Seattle-Tacoma Airport. I-5 then passes SeaTac, Kent, Lakeland, Milton, Fife, Tacoma, Lakewood, DuPont, Lacey, Olympia (where it meets US 101), Grand Mound, Centralia, Longview, and Vancouver. In Vancouver, it splits with I-205, with I-205 acting as a Portland bypass, and I-5 going into downtown. In Downtown Vancouver, I-5 meets WA 14, then enters Oregon.

### Oregon

After entering Oregon, I-5 splits with OR 99E near PDX Airport, US 30B north of Portland, then passes east of downtown Portland on the other side of the Williamette River, forming a east loop around Downtown, meeting I-84 along the way, then I-5 crosses the river, and meets I-405 and US 26. It then passes through neighborhoods and towns such as southwest Portland, Metzger, Durham, Tualatin, and Rivergrove, where it meets I-205 then leaves Portland. It passes Wilsonville, Woodburn, Salem (where it meets OR 22), Albany, Eugene, Yoncalia, Roseburg, Grants Pass (where it meets US 199), Medford, and lastly Ashland, then enters California near the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

### California

After entering California, I-5 passes Hornbrook, Yreka, Montague, Weed, Mount Shasta, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Redding (where it meets CA 44 and CA 299), Anderson, Cottonwood, Red Bluff, Corning, Willows, and then as I-5 nears Sacramento, I-5 splits with I-505. I-505 turns south towards I-80 west towards San Francisco. I-5 passes Woodland, then meets I-80 and passes through downtown Sacramento, and meets I-80 Business and US 50. I-5 moves south, passing Elk Grove, Stockton, Lathrop, Tracy (where it meets I-205 and near I-580), then merges with I-580. It parallels CA 99, and passes through the empty desert, passing Los Banos, Kettleman City, passes near Bakersfield, then merges with CA 99 north of Grapevine. I-5 passes Lebec, Gorman, and Santa Clarita. It passes CA 14, I-210, and I-405 all near Santa Clarita and San Fernando. It passes near US 101, and passes near Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and then passes east of downtown. I-5 holds a short concurrency with I-10, meeting CA 60 along the way, then passes through the cities near Los Angeles, notably Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana and Irvine, then east of Irvine, I-5 merges with I-405, then moves south towards San Diego. I-5 passes San Clemente, Oceanside, Carlsbad, Encinitas, and Solana Beach, then enters the San Diego area, passing I-805, CA 52, and I-8, then passes around downtown San Diego, meeting CA 94, CA 75, and Ca 15 along the way. It meets CA 905 and I-805 in San Ysidro, then passes into the San Ysidro-Tijuana border crossing. It then continues as Mexico Federal Highway 1.

## Auxiliary Routes

### Washington

 I-405
 I-205

### Oregon

 I-205
 I-405