One of the stranger and more intriguing State Highways of Northern California is California State Route 3. California State Route 3 ("CA 3") is a 146 mile generally north/south State Highway. CA 3 begins with a hanging end in Montague of Siskiyou County and has a southern terminus near the vicinity of Peanut at CA 36 of Trinity County. Part 1; the history of California State Route 3 The current CA 3 is the second highway to carry the designation. The original CA 3 was routed between Oxnard-San Juan Capistrano and is presently part of CA 1. Current CA 3 has it's origins as a State Maintained Highway as part of Legislative Route Numbers ("LRN") 35, 20, 3, and 82. In chronological order the first segment of State Highway that would be later partially adopted as part of the current CA 3 was a route between the communities of Kuntz (now Mad River) and Peanut (approximately) by way of 1907 Legislative Chapter 117. In time this segment ...
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