. "474861.0"^^ . . . . . "North" . . . . "SR" . . . . "49" . "State Route 49 (SR 49) is a north\u2013south state highway in the U.S. state of California that passes through many historic mining communities of the 1849 California gold rush. Highway 49 is numbered after the \"49ers\", the waves of immigrants who swept into the area looking for gold, and a portion of it is known as the Gold Country Highway. This roadway begins at Oakhurst, Madera County, in the Sierra Nevada, where it diverges from State Route 41."@en . "South" . "Golden Chain Highway"@en . . .