The Jamboree Road in Balboa Island
One of the many things that makes Balboa Island a very special place is the fact that it is associated with the Jamboree Road. For those of you who don't know, the
Jamboree Road is essentially one of the most beloved routes in Southern California. It starts from the City of Orange, it intersects with Santiago Canyon Road
and goes south until it gets to Irvine, going straight through the middle of the Tustin Marketplace. It then goes to the Santa Ana Freeway, merges with the 261,
and serves as a freeway until it reaches Barranca Parkway, where it will move through Newport Beach and ends at Bayside Drive, right next to Balboa Island.
The reason why the Jamboree Road is thought of as essential part of Balboa Island and Balboa Island history is because this route pretty much ENDS in Balboa Island,
making the peninsula a "first and last stop" of the Jamboree Road, which was instituted back in 1953, when the National Boy Scout Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America
(the third international Jamboree) first held the event outside of Mississippi. The trail they crossed was paved, and named in honor of that 1953 landmark. Currently,
it is one of the major thoroughfares of Newport and Balboa Island.
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