Gribblenation

This past October I spent some time driving the remaining segments of California State Route 111 in Coachella Valley. CA 111 is a highway completely contained within the Sonoran Desert of Southern California.  CA 111 begins at Interstate 10 near Whitewater in San Gorgonio Pass of Riverside County.  CA 111 traverses Coachella Valley and the eastern shore the Salton Sea where it terminates at the Mexican Border in Calexico of Imperial County.  Prior to recent relinquished segments CA 111 was 129 miles in length. Part 1; the History of California State Route 111 CA 111 was one of the original run of Sign State Routes announced in an August 1934 Department of Public Works Guide .  The original route of CA 111 was aligned entirely over Legislative Route 187 between US 60/US 70/US 99 near Whitewater to US 99 in Brawley.  LRN 187 had been added to the State Highway System a year prior in 1933 according to CAhighways. CA 111 first appears in substantial detail on the 1935