Central Freeway

Central Freeway
Central Freeway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Caltrans
Length	1.2 mi[1] (1.9 km)
Existed	1959[2]–present
Component highways	US 101 from I-80 to Mission Street
Major junctions
South end	I-80 / US 101
North end	Octavia Boulevard
Location
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Francisco
Highway system
United States Numbered Highway System List Special Divided State highways in California Interstate US State Scenic History Pre‑1964 Unconstructed Deleted Freeways

The Central Freeway is a roughly one-mile (1.5 km) elevated freeway in San Francisco, California, United States, connecting the Bayshore/James Lick Freeway (US 101 and I-80) with the Hayes Valley neighborhood. Most of the freeway is part of US 101, which exits at Mission Street on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. The freeway once extended north to Turk Street, and initially formed part of a loop around downtown (along with the Embarcadero Freeway), but was damaged along with the Embarcadero in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; both highways have since been replaced with the surface-level Octavia Boulevard (north of Market Street) and Embarcadero, respectively.