Highway 32 at Forest Avenue, looking toward Forest Ranch California State Route 32, popularly known as Highway 32, is an east-west state highway that bisects Chico. It is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System. The route is most popular from Interstate 5 in Orland, through Chico and through the Sierra Nevada foothills ending at the junction of Highway 89 and Highway 36 near the community of Deer Creek. However the route also continues west or Orland though it apparently vanishes past Black Butte Lake, around Newville. The route (through a very circuitous route) will connect you to either Willows or Corning if you know your way and watch the signs carefully.
West of Chico it is East and West Sixth Streets in Hamilton City, and Walker Street and Newville Road in Orland. Beyond the city limits of Orland it is County Road 200.
It is called by several different names throughout its length within Chico: Nord Avenue, Walnut Street, West Eighth Street and West Ninth Street, Deer Creek Highway. Highway 32 is never a freeway within the city limits of Chico.
Entering Chico from the west it is known as Nord Avenue beginning at West East Avenue. As it passes over Big Chico Creek, immediately adjacent to West First Street, it becomes Walnut Street. It continues through the South Campus Neighborhood intersecting the The Streets, but takes an abrupt turn east at West 8th and 9th Streets.
To the east of Highway 99, it called the Deer Creek Highway for the rest of its duration. It passes through the nearby community of Forest Ranch. Much of the highway to the northeast is windy and mountainous, and is one way to get to Lassen National Park from Chico.
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Tehama County line
