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{{short description|Highway in California}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox road |marker_image={{Infobox road/shieldmain/USA|state=CA|type=I|route=5}}{{Infobox road/shieldmain/USA|state=CA|type=US|route=101}} |allocation={{jct|state=CA|I|5}} from [[Irvine, California|Irvine]] to [[Boyle Heights, Los Angeles]]<ref name="LATimes Boyle Heights">{{cite web | url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/boyle-heights/ | work=Los Angeles Times | title=Mapping L.A.: Boyle Heights | access-date=2013-08-05}}</ref><br/>{{jct|state=CA|US|101}} from Boyle Heights to [[Downtown Los Angeles]] |state=CA |name=Santa Ana Freeway |maint=[[Caltrans]] |map = {{Maplink-road|zoom=9|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Santa Ana Freeway}}}} |map_custom = yes |map_notes=Santa Ana Freeway highlighted in red |established= |direction_a=South |terminus_a={{jct|state=CA|I|5|I|405|name2=[[El Toro Y]]}} in Irvine |junction={{jct|state=CA|SR|133}} in [[Irvine, California|Irvine]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|SR-Toll|261}} in Irvine<br>{{jct|state=CA|SR|55}} in [[Tustin]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|SR|22|SR|57|name2=[[Orange Crush interchange|Orange Crush]]}} in [[Orange, California|Orange]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|SR|91}} in [[Buena Park]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|I|605}} in [[Downey, California|Downey]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|I|710}} in [[Vernon, California|Vernon]]<br>{{jct|state=CA|I|5|I|10|US|101|SR|60|name3=[[East Los Angeles Interchange|East LA Int.]]}} in Boyle Heights<ref name="LATimes Boyle Heights"/> |direction_b=North |terminus_b={{jct|state=CA|US|101|SR|110|name2=[[Four Level Interchange|4 Level Int.]]}} in Downtown Los Angeles |system1='''[[Southern California freeways]]''' |counties=[[Orange County, California|Orange]], [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]] }} The '''Santa Ana Freeway''' is one of the principal [[freeway]]s in [[Southern California]], connecting [[Los Angeles]] and its southeastern suburbs including the freeway's namesake, the city of [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]. The freeway begins at its junction with the [[San Diego Freeway]] ([[Interstate 405 (California)|Interstate 405]], I-405), called the [[El Toro Y]], in [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], signed as [[Interstate 5 in California|I-5]]. From there, it generally goes southeast to northwest to the [[East Los Angeles Interchange]], where it takes the designation of [[U.S. Route 101 in California|U.S. Route 101]] (US 101). It then proceeds {{convert|2.95|mi|km}} northwest to the [[Four Level Interchange]] (also known as the [[Bill Keene Memorial Interchange]]) in downtown Los Angeles. Formerly, the entirety of the route was marked as US 101 until the [[1964 state highway renumbering (California)|1964 highway renumbering]], which truncated US 101 to the East Los Angeles Interchange and designated the rest of the freeway as I-5. North of the East Los Angeles Interchange complex, I-5 follows the [[Golden State Freeway]]. South of the El Toro Y, I-5 takes on the [[San Diego Freeway]] name from I-405. An abundance of landmarks, most importantly [[Disneyland]] and [[Angel Stadium of Anaheim]], along the Orange County portion of its route combines with a severe bottleneck beginning at the Los Angeles County line (shrinking from 10 to 6 lanes) to make it one of the most congested freeways in Southern California. The infamously busy intersection of the Santa Ana, [[Garden Grove Freeway|Garden Grove]], and [[Orange Freeway|Orange]] freeways in southwestern [[Orange, California|Orange]] is nicknamed the [[Orange Crush interchange|Orange Crush]]. The freeway is officially defined as Routes 101 and 5 from Route 110 ([[Four Level Interchange]]) to Route 405.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/hseb/products/Named_Freeways_Final.pdf | title=2013 Named Freeways, Highways, Structures and Other Appurtenances in California | publisher=[[Caltrans]] | pages=63 | access-date=2014-06-13}}</ref>
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