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The location of the former toll booth is 13 km (8 mi) north of the snow shed, passing through another interchange and the 1,244 m (4,081 ft) Coquihalla Pass. Highway 5 is the only highway in British Columbia to have had tolls; a typical passenger vehicle toll was $10. [3]
The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Then, after a ferry ride to the mainland, it continues from Horseshoe Bay , through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford , Hope , Kamloops , Salmon Arm , and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/ Alberta border.
Highway 5 (Coquihalla Highway) – Kamloops, Vancouver: Coldwater interchange (Hwy 5 exit 286) West end of Hwy 5A concurrency; east end of Hwy 8 concurrency: 110.02: 68.36: To Highway 5A north / Voght Street: Former west end of Hwy 5A concurrency: Lower Nicola: 114.88: 71.38: Highway 8 west (Nicola Highway) – Spences Bridge
Highway 5A is Highway 5's pre-1986 alignment south of Kamloops. Unlike the main route, a section of BC Highway 5 known as the Coquihalla, which is a twinned highway consisting of at least 4 lanes at any given point, the 182 km (113 mi) long Highway 5A is only two lanes, with one four lane section between Highway 5 and Highway 97C (known as the Okanagan Connector), lasting along BC Highway 5A ...
Highway 97C is 224 km (139 mi) highway divided into east–west and north–south segments. The east–west segment has expressway and freeway sections, forms part of an important link between the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan Valley south of Kelowna, and is known as Okanagan Connector or Coquihalla Connector.
Kamloops is located at the crossroads of the Coquihalla Highway, Yellowhead Highway, and Trans-Canada Highway and is a transportation hub in the region. The Canadian Pacific (CPR) and Canadian National (CNR) mainline routes connect Vancouver in the west with Kamloops.
Highway 8, known as the Nicola Highway, is an alternate route to Highway 97C between Highway 1 and the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. Highway 8 was first numbered in 1953, and very little about the highway changed between that year and 2021, when large segments of the highway were washed out by floods .
Coquihalla Summit (el. 1,244 m or 4,081 ft) is a highway summit along the Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia, Canada. [1] It is the highest point on the highway between the cities of Hope and Merritt .