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Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country.It is located at the intersection of Highway 43 (part of the CANAMEX Corridor) and Highway 40 (the Bighorn Highway), approximately 456 km (283 mi) northwest of Edmonton.
Highway 43 – Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek: Western terminus: 10: 6.2: Highway 721 south – Hythe: Valhalla Centre: 27: 17: Highway 723 south – Beaverlodge: La Glace: 35: 22: Highway 724 south – Wembley: Hwy 724 concurrency west end 40: 25: Highway 724 north: Hwy 724 concurrency east end: Sexsmith: 62: 39: Highway 2 – Rycroft, Peace ...
Highway 2A, known as Highway 2A:36 by Alberta Transportation, begins at Highway 2 at the locality of Roma Junction, 2 km (1 mi) west of the Peace River Airport and 13 km (8 mi) west of the town of Peace River, and terminates in the town of Grimshaw, [3] where it passes by Mile Zero monument of the Mackenzie Highway.
Much of Highway 2 is a core route in the National Highway System of Canada: between Fort Macleod and Edmonton and between Donnelly and Grimshaw. The speed limit along most parts of the highway between Fort Macleod and Morinville is 110 km/h (68 mph), and in urban areas, such as through Claresholm, Nanton, Calgary and Edmonton, it ranges from 50 km/h (31 mph) to 110 km/h (68 mph).
In September 2019, the western leg of the Grande Prairie bypass as completed and opened to traffic in September 2019. [16] In December 2018, then-premier Rachel Notley announced a new, full interchange at Highway 43X (Grande Prairie bypass) and Highway 43 (100 Avenue); however, the interchange is still several years into the future. [17]
Alberta's 1 to 216 series of provincial highways are Alberta's main highways. They are numbered from 1 to 100, with the exception of the ring roads around Calgary and Edmonton, which are numbered 201 and 216 respectively. The numbers applied to these highways are derived from compounding the assigned numbers of the core north–south and east ...
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 666, commonly referred to as Highway 666, [2] is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs mostly west-east, on mostly existing township and range roads in the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16 in Northern Alberta , for 37 km.
Highway 40 is a south–north highway in western Alberta, Canada. [2] It is also named Bighorn Highway and Kananaskis Trail in Kananaskis Country. Its segmented sections extend from Coleman in the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass northward to the City of Grande Prairie and is currently divided into four sections. [3]