State Scenic Highway 118 118
State Scenic Highway 118 is a scenic drive in California. Within California it covers roughly 13 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along State Scenic Highway 118 with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
State Scenic Highway 118 is Route 118 through Ventura and Los Angeles counties, a mountain-and-valley drive better known for its freeway stretch than any scenic branding. That freeway section is the Ronald Reagan Freeway between Moorpark and Lake View Terrace, renamed in 1994 for the fortieth president in honor of his presidential library in nearby Simi Valley. West of the freeway, the route continues as a two-lane road through the Santa Susana Mountains and the Simi Valley, passing sandstone rock formations and oak-covered hills before dropping toward Ventura's agricultural flatland. The corridor has been placed on the state's list of routes eligible for scenic-highway status because of these mountain and rock-formation views, but no local jurisdiction along the alignment has adopted the corridor protection plan Caltrans requires for official designation. It remains, for now, a commuter route with scenic stretches rather than a formally protected scenic highway.
- Ronald Reagan Freeway, Moorpark to Lake View Terrace
- Santa Susana Mountains rock formations
- Simi Valley
- named for Reagan's presidential library, 1994
- eligible but not officially designated
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About this drive
This is a scenic drive — a road worth taking for the views and the journey itself rather than the quickest line between two points.
Where to Stay along State Scenic Highway 118
No campgrounds are listed close to State Scenic Highway 118 yet, but there are rooms near the route.
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