US 6 – Brown Junction

Through the Mojave Desert – Indian Wells Valley

6_small Brown Junction

Northbound view of Brown Junction. US 395 south went to the right here.
Northbound view of Brown Junction. US 395 south went to the right here.
Old restaurant near the Kennedy Meadows junction.
Old restaurant near the Kennedy Meadows junction.
Old US 395 / Old US 6 south of Brown Junction.
Old US 395 / Old US 6 south of Brown Junction, bypassed about 1993.

This was the original southern junction of US 6 and US 395 until about 1957. Little remains here of any businesses, but some trace concrete ruins remain. The present US 395 expressway runs to the east of the old alignment here and was opened in 1993.

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