# Avoiding Sand Fire on trip to San Fran from DHS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avoiding-sand-fire-on-trip-to-san-fran-from-dhs/760773>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 24, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avoiding-sand-fire-on-trip-to-san-fran-from-dhs/760773 "2016-07-24T14:34:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![bgilbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de0a6/32.png) [@bgilbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bgilbert)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avoiding-sand-fire-on-trip-to-san-fran-from-dhs/760773/1 "2016-07-24T14:34:46Z")

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Hi, I am traveling to San Francisco from the Desert Hot Springs area and was hoping to get some advice on my route.  
My planned route is I-10 to I-215, I-215 to CA-138 into Palmdale and then to CA-14N. Am I going to run into a lot of smoke/or traffic going that way? Time is not an issue, I just don’t want to get caught in a ton of traffic routing around the fire due to road closures. I am from Michigan and am not familiar with the area at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. 🙂

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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avoiding-sand-fire-on-trip-to-san-fran-from-dhs/760773/2 "2016-07-24T14:47:31Z")

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I’d jump on the I-15 north to US-395 then west on CA-58 to Bakersfield, that’s a nice road and basically avoids a ton of SoCal traffic. CA-58 eventually hits the I-5 and from there follow the signs.