Crestwood Summit is a highway pass through the Cuyamaca Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, California, traversed by Interstate 8. Its elevation is westbound, and eastbound. It is the highest point on Interstate 8. Of the four highway summits east of San Diego, the first highway summit has been unnamed until "

Carpenter Summit Carpenter Summit is a highway pass name approved through the through the United States Geological Survey. This pass was created during the construction of I-8 from 1972 to 1974 in this area, but was never named unlike the three other then named d ...

" was proposed in late 2019, now pending the

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approval. The second is

Laguna Summit Laguna Summit is a highway pass through the Cuyamaca Mountains of southeastern San Diego County, California, traversed by Interstate 8 at an altitude of . Of the four highway summits eastward of San Diego, the Laguna Summit is the second. The ...

. Then comes the Crestwood Summit followed by the

Tecate Divide The Tecate Divide is a mountain ridge in southeastern San Diego County, California, running in a north-south direction on the southeast fringe of the Cuyamaca Mountains. It reaches an altitude of , and passes between the towns of Live Oak Spri ...

. The highway summit was named after Crestwood Road that runs north from Old Highway 80 and underneath I-8. It continues past the end of the county road into the Indian reservation. It is listed as BIA Rd. on Google Maps but clearly as Crestwood Road on Google Street Vie
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The reservation of the

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occupies the summit, and the band maintained the La Posta casino at the summit until its closure in 2012. It was at 777 Crestwood Road, Boulevard, CA 91905. That casino has been replaced by the "Golden Acorn Casino" supervised by the Campo Band of Diegueño Mission Indians, also known as the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, a federally recognized tribe of

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on the

Campo Indian Reservation The Campo Indian Reservation is home to the Campo Band of Diegueño Mission Indians, also known as the Campo Kumeyaay Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Kumeyaay people in the southern Laguna Mountains, in eastern San Diego County, Califor ...

. The Self Determination Act of 1975, and by 1978, "the Campo people designated the area near the Crestwood freeway off-ramp as an area for economic development." Muht Hei, Inc. is the tribe's corporation."Muht Hei, Inc."
''Campo Kumeyaay Nation.'' Retrieved 12 Aug 2013.
Google Street view of the I-8 summit area.

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