USA road trip May-June I-5, I-40, I-55/65/75, I-80, I-70, I-84

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Question: What is an easy route from Sacarament to Phoenix bypassing the major LA metro area?.

Take CA-58 out of Bakersfield to US-395. Take that south to I-15 toward San Bernardino. At the split, take I-215 to CA-210. Take that east to I-10.

That's considerably faster than taking I-40 to US-93. Bakersfield to Phoenix can be done in about 8 hours.

If you want to avoid the Central Valley, you can take I-5 out of Sacto and cut across to CA-99 on CA-46.