List of British Columbia provincial highways
Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIS : List of British Columbia provincial highways
This article lists all existing numbered highways in British Columbia, Canada.
Contents
Major routes
East-west
- The Trans Canada Highway (Highway 1), which runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, and then from Horseshoe Bay, through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford, Hope, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is the major east-west route in the province, and varies from eight-lane freeway to two-lane highway.
- The Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3), which runs from Hope, then through Osoyoos, Trail, and Cranbrook right to Crowsnest Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is a southern alternate route to the Trans Canada, and runs very close to the American border.
- The Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16), which starts on the Queen Charlotte Islands; after a ferry ride to the mainland, it runs from Prince Rupert through Smithers and Prince George, and then meets the Alberta border at Yellowhead Pass.
- The Lougheed Highway (Highway 7), is a major alternate route that runs from Vancouver to Hope, through the lower Fraser Valley.
- The Okanagan Connector (Highway 97C), is a short but major route that connects the Okanagan Valley to the Coquihalla Highway (Hwy 5) at Merritt. 97C branches off Highway 97 at Peachland, about midway between Penticton and Kelowna.
North-south
- The Island Highway (Highway 19), which is an extension of Highway 1 on Vancouver Island; it runs from Nanaimo and provides access to all points northbound on Vancouver Island, including Parksville, , Comox, and Port Hardy.
- The Patricia Bay Highway (Highway 17), which starts in Victoria and heads northbound as a freeway through Saanich to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal; after a crossing to Tsawwassen, it continues as an expressway to Highway 99. This route is the main land route between the major cities of Vancouver and Victoria.
- The Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99); the highway starts as an extension of Interstate 5 at the US border in Surrey, and is a freeway until entering the city of Vancouver. After Vancouver, the highway is a two-to-four lane highway that accesses Squamish and Whistler, before meeting with Highway 97 north of Cache Creek.
- The Coquihalla Highway/Yellowhead Highway South (Highway 5), which is a freeway that bypasses the slower Fraser Canyon portion of the Trans Canada Highway, connecting the cities of Hope, Merritt, and Kamloops. The segment between Hope and Merritt is a toll highway. North of Kamloops, the route is only known as the Yellowhead Highway south, and meets up with the main route of the Yellowhead Highway near the Alberta border.
- Highway 97, the longest highway in the province. The highway starts at the American border near Osoyoos. The highway, here known as the Okanagan Highway, passes through the major Okanagan Valley cities of Penticton, Kelowna, and Vernon, before ending in Kamloops. From Kamloops, it is known as the Cariboo Highway, and passes through Cache Creek, Williams Lake, Quesnel, and ends in Prince George. North from there, it is known as the John Hart Highway, and ends in Dawson Creek. From there, the highway then is known as the famed Alaska Highway, and travels northwest through the province until it reaches the Yukon border.
Route list
As of March 2006, according to the [British Columbia Ministry of Transportation], the complete list of highways in the province are:
- British Columbia provincial highway 1, Trans-Canada Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 1A, Taylor Way, Marine Drive, Lions Gate Bridge Road and Fraser Highway on the mainland; Chemainus Road, Goldstream Road, Old Island Highway, Gorge Road, and Douglas Street on Vancouver Island
- British Columbia provincial highway 2, Tupper Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 3, Crowsnest Highway, Southern Transprovincial
- British Columbia provincial highway 3A, Kaleden Highway (Keremeos-Penticton) and Castlegar-Creston Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 3B, Nancy Greene Lake-Rossland-Meadows Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 4, Pacific Rim Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 4A, Old Alberni Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 5, Coquihalla Highway and Southern Yellowhead Highways
- British Columbia provincial highway 5A, Princeton-Kamloops Highway via Aspen Grove. Originally Hwy 5 until the building of the Coquihalla
- British Columbia provincial highway 6, Nelson-Nelway Highway and Monashee Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 7, Lougheed Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 7A, Barnet Highway (includes St. John's Street in downtown Port Moody and all of Hastings Street to Granville Street in downtown Vancouver); "the Barnet" refers to the stretch from Port Moody to where Hastings begins in North Burnaby.
- British Columbia provincial highway 7B, Mary Hill Bypass
- British Columbia provincial highway 8, Nicola Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 9, Agassiz-Rosedale Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 10, Ladner Trunk Road in Delta, 56th Ave in Surrey, known as "No. 10" throughout.
- British Columbia provincial highway 11, Abbotsford-Mission Highway (from the Sumas-Huntington border crossing to the jct with Hwy 7 at the north off-ramps from the Mission Bridge)
- British Columbia provincial highway 12, Lillooet-Lytton Highway (formerly 12A until the extension of Hwy 99 from Pemberton; the Lillooet-Cache Creek section of Hwy 99 was formerly Hwy 12B)
- British Columbia provincial highway 13, Aldergrove-Bellingham Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 14, Sooke Road (to Sooke, Jordan River, and Port Renfrew)
- British Columbia provincial highway 15, Pacific Highway - 176th St in Surrey (border crossing at the south end of this route is known as "the Truck Crossing" or "the Pacific Crossing")
- British Columbia provincial highway 16, Yellowhead Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 17, Patricia Bay and Tsawwassen Highways
- British Columbia provincial highway 18, Cowichan Valley Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 19, Island Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 19A, Oceanside Route (the old Island Highway)
- British Columbia provincial highway 20, Chilcotin Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 21, Creston-Rykerts Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 22, Paterson-Rossland-Castlegar Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 22A, Waneta Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 23, Nakusp-Mica Creek Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 24, Little Fort Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 26, Barkerville Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 27, Stuart Lake Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 28, Gold River Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 29, Hudson's Hope Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 30, Port Alice Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 31, Selkirk Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 31A, Kaslo-New Denver Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 33, Rock Creek-Kelowna Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 35, North Francois Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 37, Cassiar Highway (aka Stewart-Cassiar Highway or just "the Stewart-Cassiar"); extends through to join Alaska Highway near Watson Lake, Yukon
- British Columbia provincial highway 37A, Stewart Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 39, Mackenzie Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 41, Danville Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 43, Elk Valley Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 49, Dawson Creek-Spirit River Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 52, Heritage Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 77, Liard Highway (Alaska Highway aka Alcan Highway)
- British Columbia provincial highway 91, Annacis Highway and Richmond Freeway aka Richmond Connector
- British Columbia provincial highway 91A, Queensborough Connector
- British Columbia provincial highway 93, Kootenay Highway, counterpart of US 93
- British Columbia provincial highway 95, Columbia Highway, counterpart of US 95
- British Columbia provincial highway 95A, Kimberley Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 97, Okanagan, Cariboo, John Hart, and Alaska Highways, counterpart of US 97
- British Columbia provincial highway 97A, Vernon-Sicamous Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 97B, Grindrod-Salmon Arm Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 97C, Okanagan Connector (freeway)
- British Columbia provincial highway 97D, Meadow Creek Road
- British Columbia provincial highway 99, Vancouver-Blaine Highway, Oak Street, Southwest Marine Drive, 70th Avenue, Granville Street, Seymour Street, Howe Street, Georgia Street, Marine Drive, Taylor Way, Upper Levels Highway, Sea to Sky Highway, and Duffy Lake Road, counterpart of US 99 (Interstate 5)
- British Columbia provincial highway 99A, King George Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 101, Sunshine Coast Highway, indirect counterpart of U.S. Route 101
- British Columbia provincial highway 113, Nisga'a Highway
- British Columbia provincial highway 118, Central Babine Lake
- British Columbia provincial highway 395, Christina Lake-Laurier Highway, counterpart of US 395
The following routes are maintained by the Ministry of Transportation as part of British Columbia's highway system, but they are currently un-numbered:
- Atlin Highway
- Bridge River Road (informally known as Highway 40)
- Coalmont Road
- Glover Road (Langley City to Fort Langley)
- Head Bay Road
- Hemlock Valley Road
- Horsefly Road
- Jesmond Road
- Likely Road
- Mission Mountain Road (often just "Mission Mountain")
- Mount Washington Road
- Nazko Road (informally known as Highway 59)
- Pavilion Mountain Road (often just "Pavilion Mountain")
- Port Mellon Highway
- Queen Charlotte City - Skidegate Road
- Telegraph Creek Road (informally known as Highway 51)
- Westside Road (in Whistler the old road pre-Hwy 99 along the west side of Alta Lake; in the Fraser Canyon the not-highway road up the west side of the Fraser River from Lytton to Lillooet)
Yukon highways in British Columbia
Highways 2 (Klondike Highway) and 3 (Haines Highway) in the northwest corner of the province are part of the Yukon territorial highway system and are not listed here or designated as BC highways.
Although some editions of The Milepost identify the B.C. portion of the Haines Highway as Highway 4, this is not an official highway number for the route.
Also, although the Alaska Highway crosses the border with the Yukon nine times (including six crossings between historic miles 588 and 596, the highway route number changes just once, between Lower Post, B.C., and Watson Lake, Yukon. The Yukon section east of here is maintained by Public Works Canada as part of the B.C. portion of Highway 97, while the B.C. section west of here is maintained by the Yukon Government as part of Yukon Highway 1.
Defunct route numbers
The first two freeways built in British Columbia were given 400-series numbers, much like the 400-Series Highways in Ontario. Highways 401 and 499 were renumbered 1 and 99 respectively in 1973. The section of Highway 37 between Terrace and Kitimat was known as Highway 25 until 1986. In recent years, many routes have been devoluted to regional and/or municipal authorities and have lost their official highway status, notably the Fraser Highway in the Lower Mainland (formerly part of British Columbia provincial highway 1A) and West Saanich Road on Vancouver Island (formerly British Columbia provincial highway 17A). Some roads have informal highway numbers (e.g. 40, 51, 59) used by locals and are referred to by these numbers on [provincial highway condition listings] but are not signed as highways or listed as provincial highways on the [Ministry of Transportation website].
External links
- [Official Numbered Routes in British Columbia] (British Columbia Ministry of Transportation)
- [Map of numbered highways in British Columbia]
- [British Columbia Highway Cams]
- [Drive BC]
- [British Columbia Highways Website]
- [Numbered Highways in British Columbia] by Stefan Ewing
|
| Provincial Highways of British Columbia |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provincial and Territorial Numbered highways in Canada | |
|---|---|
| British Columbia | Alberta | Saskatchewan | Manitoba | Ontario | Quebec | New Brunswick | P.E.I. | Nova Scotia | Nfld. & Lab. | Yukon | N.W.T. | |
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.