Rosecrans Avenue

Rosecrans Avenue is a major west-east thoroughfare in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, USA. It has a total length of 27.5 miles (44.3 km). The street is named after Union General William S. Rosecrans, who purchased 13,000 acres of Rancho Sausal Redondo southwest of Los Angeles in 1869. Rosecrans Avenue was originally named Drexel Avenue, and ran through the Rosecrans Rancho which is part of modern-day Gardena.

Rosecrans Avenue begins at Ocean Avenue in Manhattan Beach. On its route it crosses through Manhattan Beach, El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale, Alondra Park, Gardena, Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, Willowbrook, Compton, East Rancho Dominguez, Paramount, Bellflower, Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, La Mirada, and Fullerton. It intersects the 405, 110, 710, 605, and 5 freeways (all Interstates). The eastern terminus of Rosecrans Avenue is at the intersection with Euclid Street in Fullerton.

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