San Bernardino — San Bernardino Map Poster & Print

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San Bernardino Map Poster & Print

San Bernardino sits at the northeastern edge of the Inland Empire in Southern California, where the flat valley floor runs straight into the San Bernardino Mountains. On a map the city is a broad, mostly regular grid of streets and freeways, cut diagonally by washes and flood channels coming down from the foothills. Interstate 215 runs north toward Cajon Pass, while Interstate 10 crosses the southern side.

The city holds a well-known place in American road history. Route 66 passed through on its way to the coast, and in 1940 the McDonald brothers opened the restaurant here that became the starting point of the McDonald's chain. Above the city, a natural arrowhead-shaped mark on the mountainside has been a local landmark for generations and gives the nearby hot springs their name.

A San Bernardino map poster captures the contrast that defines the place: dense, orderly blocks below and the sudden emptiness of the mountains above. The Santa Ana River traces its sandy course across the south, adding one long, loose line to an otherwise rectilinear drawing. It is a map of a crossroads city, built where routes out of the desert meet the basin.