Driving in Fresno
Fresno is known for being the largest American city not directly linked to an Interstate highway. The city’s main north/south freeway is California State Highway 99. California State Highway 168 leads to the cities of Clovis and Huntington Lake, California State Highway 41 comes into Fresno from the south via Paso Robles, and California State Highway 180 comes from the west via Mendota.

Traffic congestion in Fresno is not as bad as larger places in California, but Shaw and Herndon avenues can get quite crowded, especially since there is no east-west freeway through the north side. CA-99 runs along the west side of the city, becoming semi-rural before exiting Fresno County on the northwest side of Fresno.

CA-41 runs down the middle of the city. It takes about 3 hours to get to San Francisco, 4 to Los Angeles from Fresno. CA-198 is the main east-west freeway in Visalia. Taking it east from downtown will lead to CA-99. CA-99 leads south to Bakersfield and Los Angeles, and north to Stockton and the Bay Area.