Unconstructed from Route 25 to Route 33. The traversable route is Panoche Road with no plans for adoption or improvement. Part of this road is signed as County Route J1. Caltrans plans to conduct a Route 180 Adoption Study, which could begin as soon as funding is available and would take approximately four years to complete, at an estimated cost of $7 million.
Under freeway construction from Chestnut Avenue to Clovis Avenue. This new freeway will eventually be extended to Frankwood Avenue.
Before the freeway was built, Route 180 entered Fresno via east on Amador Street, south on A Street, east on Tuolumne Street, South on Broadway, and east on Ventura Street.
For a brief time (1978-1983), the I-180 designation was briefly used on what was then Route 17 from Route 80 to Route 101 via the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and is now Interstate Route 580. Why did this designation not stay for long? Read Casey Cooper's Indigestion 238.
Route 180 from:
From Abby Street in Fresno to Chestnut Avenue. It is known as the "Sequoia-Kings Canyon Freeway". The name "Sequoia" refers to the big trees of the Sierras, the Sequoia gigantia, which in turn was named after the Indian Chief Sequoya, creator of the Cherokee alphabet, whose name means "opossum."
Route 180 from:
The portion from Route 5 to Route 99 (including the unconstructed segment) is known as the "Deran Koligian Memorial Highway", named after the first Armenian-American to be elected to a Fresno County office, its Board of Supervisors, in 1982. As a member of the Fresno Transportation Authority, he was instrumental in securing funds for numerous road and highway transportation projects, including the extension and widening of Route 180 in western Fresno County.
Part (d) is historically known as the "Kings River Highway".
Route 245 comes just before you enter the General Grant Grove gate.