After completing the Feather River Highway on CA 70 and seeing the condition of Lake Oroville I headed up Chico to stay the night. I had taken CA 36 a couple years prior to Lassen Volcanic National Park and decided that I would try CA 32 instead. Interestingly when I was driving into Chico I noticed CA 99 is still signed on Park Avenue for some reason. Oddly the current CA 99 bypass of Chico was apparently completed in 1967 which was the year that US 99E became CA 99. I thought that the CA 99 shield might be a fluke business route but there was another reassurance shield near the junction with CA 32 I didn't capture. The 1966 State Highway Map shows a bypass of Chico being built as US 99E and the 1967 State Highway Map shows it complete. 1966 State Highway Map 1967 State Highway Map CA 32 itself is a 72 mile state highway from I-5 east to CA 36/89 in the Sierras. I was essentially starting out CA 32 about one third of the way through the route at...
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