US 99 – McFarland

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US 99 – McFarland

McFarland is another small farming town along US 99 and the Southern Pacific Railroad. US 99 was upgraded to an expressway here about 1950 and then to a full freeway in 1963. A small portion of the old alignment is used as a frontage road on the east side of the freeway from Sherwood Ave to Perkins Ave. McFarland also marked the northern end of the six-lane freeway until about 2000 when the third lane was extended north to the Tulare County line at Delano.