California State Route 39 was once meant to run deep into the San Gabriel Mountains and connect with State Route 2. Instead, the road has been closed for more than four decades, leaving a quiet dead ...

In a standoff with federal forest officials, Caltrans is proposing to abandon a popular, cliff-hanging highway in the San Gabriel Mountains because it is too expensive to maintain. The proposal to ...

Unless you are a bungee-jumper on the famed Bridge to Nowhere, or perhaps a sure-footed if endangered bighorn sheep, you are unlikely to have been on State Highway 39 beyond Crystal Lake lately.

San Gabriel Valley cities had hoped Caltrans would move forward with plans to reconnect Highway 39 with Highway 2 in the San Gabriel Mountains. The last portion of Highway 39 connecting it to the 2 ...

Despite earlier promises, Caltrans is abandoning plans to reopen a 4.4-mile section of state Highway 39 in the Angeles National Forest between Crystal Lake and Wrightwood, citing rising costs, ...

The Angeles National Forest can be described as a collection of rugged mountains, sparkling streams, dark canyons and breathtaking vistas, along with piles of trash, too few rangers, frequent picnic ...

It has been 46 years since a landslide damaged a 4.4-mile chunk of State Highway 39, a highway ordered built by President Eisenhower in 1957. But the landslide severed the mountain road’s junction ...

California’s State Route 39 once connected the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific, but a 1978 rockslide forced the closure of its final 4.5-mile section—an eerie, scenic road that’s never reopened.