State Route 150 (SR 150) is a

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in the

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. It runs from

U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a major north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States. It is part of the United States Numbered Highway Syst ...

near the Ventura/

Santa Barbara County Santa Barbara County, officially the County of Santa Barbara (), is a county located in Southern California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 448,229. The county seat is Santa Barbara, and the largest city is Santa M ...

line to State Route 126 in

Santa Paula Santa Paula (Spanish for " St. Paula") is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amid the orchards of the Santa Clara River Valley, the city advertises itself to tourists as the "Citrus Capital of the World". Santa Pau ...

, providing a connection to

Lake Casitas Lake Casitas is a reservoir in Ventura County, California, built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and completed in 1959. The project provides drinking water and water for irrigation. A secondary benefit is flood control. It was the ven ...

and

Ojai Ojai ( ; Chumash: ''’Awhaỳ'') is a city in Ventura County, California. Located in the Ojai Valley, it is northwest of Los Angeles and east of Santa Barbara. The valley is part of the east–west trending Western Transverse Ranges and is ...

. It is a two-lane road. There were some one-lane bridges near the western end of the route, but these were rebuilt as two-lane bridges after flooding in 2005.

Route description

The western terminus is at

US 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a major north–south highway that traverses the states of California, Oregon, and Washington on the West Coast of the United States. It is part of the United States Numbered Highway Syst ...

in eastern

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. It climbs above the

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to reach the mountains west of

. The portion of the road between US 101 and Lake Casitas is called ''Casitas Pass Road'', and the portion between Lake Casitas and

is called ''Baldwin Road''. However, this part of the road is rural and is not used as a primary thoroughfare. SR 33 is recommended to reach Ojai from U.S. 101. SR 150 joins SR 33 (''Maricopa Highway'') near Meiners Oaks and remains co-signed with the route into the Ojai city limits, where it is known as ''Ojai Avenue''. It runs southeast on ''Ojai-Santa Paula Road'' and serves as the major connector between the cities of Ojai and Santa Paula, running past Thomas Aquinas College. In Santa Paula, it becomes 10th Street and ends at an interchange with SR 126. The other names of Route 150 include Rincon Road (starts at

and ends at State Route 192), Casitas Pass Road (starts at Route 192 and ends at Santa Ana Road near

), Baldwin Road (starts at Santa Ana Road and ends at the south junction with Route 33), Ventura Avenue (co-signed with Route 33), Ojai Avenue (starts at the north junction with Route 33 and ends at Reeves Road, approximately one mile east of the east limit of

), Santa Paula/Ojai Road (starts at Reeves Road and ends at the north limit of the City of

), Ojai Road (starts at the north limit of Santa Paula and ends at Santa Paula Street in Santa Paula) and 10th Street (starts on Santa Paula Street in

and ends at Route 126). SR 150 south of the outer Ojai city limits is part of the National Highway System, a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the

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. This route is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System, but it is not officially designated as a scenic highway by the

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History

The route was opened in 1897. Before the construction of US 101, it was part of the main highway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Originally, State Route 150 followed the alignment of State Route 192 through the Santa Barbara foothills and climbed up

San Marcos Pass San Marcos Pass (Chumash: ''Mistaxiwax'') is a mountain pass in the Santa Ynez Mountains in southern California. It is traversed by State Route 154. The pass crosses the Santa Ynez through a southwestern portion of Los Padres National Forest, ...

via the present-day route of State Route 154 before heading west on State Route 246, passing through

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, Solvang, and Buellton and ending in

Lompoc Lompoc ( ; Chumashan ) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called t ...

at State Route 1 (

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). The only current remnants of that routing are at the mileage signs for westbound State Route 150, which have the

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as Santa Barbara west of Santa Paula, even though SR 150 currently ends east of the city. A portion of the route between Santa Paula and Ojai was closed indefinitely by a landslide in February 2024 following a significant rain storm. Cleanup and the reopening of the section from Stonegate Road in Santa Paula to Steckel Park, north of the city, was delayed due to the risk of triggering additional slides that could damage nearby homes or utility lines.

Major intersections

References

External links

{{CASR external links, SR, 150
California Highways: Route 150

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State Route 150 State Route 150 Ojai, California Santa Paula, California

Route description

History

Major intersections

See also

References

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