Best route from LGB to DL

[mickey+minnie91]

Google maps shows to go on Hwy 91 but it seems like there can be a different route. Any suggestions?

 

[Sosai X]

If you want to avoid the freeways, go across the street from the airport to Donald Douglas drive, which after a while becomes Wardlow Road, which after a while becomes Ball road, which after a while intersects Harbor Boulevard, right at the top of Disneyland. It's a straight line all the way there.

 

[jlmarr]

Head straight on the main street out of the airport, which is named Wardlow Road and which changes name to Ball Road when you cross the "Orange Curtain" from LA County into Orange County. Keep going straight for about 13 1/2 miles, then turn right at either Disneyland Drive or Harbor Blvd, depending where you are staying. Here's a map.

 

[mickey+minnie91]

Would you guys go this route or get on the freeway? I just want to get there the quickest way

 

[tyluvsdis]

We just got back from there yesterday. We found that taking Willow straight from the airport, we ended up on Katella (the street name changes from Willow to Katella, not the street). Hope this helps!

 

[tatehermosa]

Thanks, I'll save this info for my trip!

 

[Chasbo]

Would you guys go this route or get on the freeway? I just want to get there the quickest way

It is kind of a crap shoot. If you go to a freeway, you can end up driving quite a ways on surface streets anyway just getting to the freeway or after you get off. For example, it is a few miles from LGB to the 91 freeway. However, once you get on the 91 you have a pretty straight shot right into the resort, especially if you are using the car pool lane from the 5. The downside is the 91/5 is a busy stretch of highway so you could hit traffic. It is closer to get to the 405 and then the 22 from LGB, but then once you get off the 22 you have to drive a few miles of surface streets again to get to the resort.

This is why most people that do it often say that going down Wardlow/Ball is just as easy. It is surface streets, which means lights, but Wardlow/Ball is only a semi-major street so it is not super crowded. I use to live right on Ball Rd near the Resort would frequently drive that way to see my then girlfriend (now wife!) in Long Beach all the time. It is a simple drive. I would not recommend going across Willow/Katella. There are more traffic signals that way and more traffic as well.

Hope that helps.

 

[mickey+minnie91]

It is kind of a crap shoot. If you go to a freeway, you can end up driving quite a ways on surface streets anyway just getting to the freeway or after you get off. For example, it is a few miles from LGB to the 91 freeway. However, once you get on the 91 you have a pretty straight shot right into the resort, especially if you are using the car pool lane from the 5. The downside is the 91/5 is a busy stretch of highway so you could hit traffic. It is closer to get to the 405 and then the 22 from LGB, but then once you get off the 22 you have to drive a few miles of surface streets again to get to the resort.

This is why most people that do it often say that going down Wardlow/Ball is just as easy. It is surface streets, which means lights, but Wardlow/Ball is only a semi-major street so it is not super crowded. I use to live right on Ball Rd near the Resort would frequently drive that way to see my then girlfriend (now wife!) in Long Beach all the time. It is a simple drive. I would not recommend going across Willow/Katella. There are more traffic signals that way and more traffic as well.



Hope that helps.

Yes it does!
Thanks so much

 

[SeattleTink]

Yup, this is the way we go too. It might not be the fastest, but it easy and you are not taking any chances of major backups on the freeway.

Plus, if you have a rental car there are plenty of gas stations on the way back to airport to top off the gas tank! (Saves a few $$'s)

 

[northshoremama]

this is all good information! we are flying into LGB next month and renting a car.

 

[Stacerita]

Would you guys go this route or get on the freeway? I just want to get there the quickest way

I would go this way. I live just down the street from DL off of Ball. And I never take the 91 to LGB.

 

[mickey+minnie91]

Thanks everyone for all your replies! We leave on friday and im trying to gather all my information.