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Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
Drag racing's shrine at the Pomona Fairplex, steps from the historic strip where the NHRA season starts and ends, packed with top fuel dragsters, hot rods and land-speed cars.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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Colton
California, United States · North America
About Colton
Colton sits on the route: 10 minutes from San Bernardino, 42km from Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum.
Colton is in California, United States, with about 55,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San Bernardino, about 4 km away.
Colton is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Nicknamed "Hub City", Colton is located in the Inland Empire region of the state and is a suburb of San Bernardino, approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the city's downtown. The population of Colton is 53,909 according to the 2020 census, up fromRead more
52,154 at the 2010 census.
Colton is the site of Colton Crossing, which was one of the busiest at-grade railroad crossings in the United States. The crossing was installed in 1882 by the California Southern Railroad to cross the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks while building northward from San Diego. As a result of railroad acquisitions and mergers, this became the point at which the Burlington Northern Santa Fe's "Southern Transcontinental Route" crossed the Union Pacific's "Sunset Route". As traffic on each line began to soar in the mid-1990s, fueled largely by the vast increase in imports passing through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the primitive crossing became a serious bottleneck. On August 28, 2013, the at-grade crossing was officially replaced by a fly-over that raises the east–west UP tracks over the north–south BNSF tracks.
Despite its status as a railroad town, Colton does not have passenger rail service. Passenger trains operated by Amtrak and Metrolink pass through Colton but do not stop there.
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What is there to see near Colton?
Within an hour or so of Colton: Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum (42 km), In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip (42 km).
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The nearest famous roads are Mulholland Drive and Route 66 - Santa Monica End.
Where is Colton?
Colton is in California, United States, about 4 km from San Bernardino.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 54,621
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Region
- California
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 34.0739, -117.3136
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AAA roadside assistance: 1-800-222-4357. Right turn on red is legal in most states unless signed otherwise.
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Worth the detour from Colton
2 notable places within an hour's drive.
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In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip
The oldest continuously operating drag strip in the world, opened 1951 on the Los Angeles County Fairplex, and the traditional season opener and finale of the NHRA calendar.
42 km · about 50 min drive
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