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The second of the 1A routes, known as the Bow Valley Trail, begins in Canmore, off of the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 91. It formerly began at the Trans-Canada Highway at exit 86 and passed through Canmore; however, ownership of the section was transferred to the Town of Canmore. The roadway still carries the name "Bow Valley Trail". [1]
Bow Valley is a valley along the upper Bow River in Alberta, Canada. The name "Bow" refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and which were used by the local First Nations people to make bows; the Blackfoot language name for the river is Makhabn , meaning "river where bow weeds grow".
Highway 1A east (Bow Valley Parkway) / Lake Louise Drive west: Castle Junction: 34.7: 21.6 (35) Highway 93 south (Banff–Windermere Highway) – Kootenay National Park, Radium Hot Springs To Highway 1A (Bow Valley Parkway) East end of Hwy 93 concurrency 56.7: 35.2 (56) Sunshine Road: Access to Sunshine Village: 58.8: 36.5 (59) Highway 1A west ...
A much larger area, the Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park, contains the 575 km 2 Yamnuska Natural Area that protects the sub-alpine ecosystem of the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains between the Kananaskis park system and Banff National Park, which it borders to the west. [7]
The original alignment of Highway 22 started at Highway 2 (Macleod Trail) south of Calgary and travelled west to Priddis, where it turned south to Turner Valley and terminated at Highway 7 in Black Diamond. [5] In the 1970s, the province of Alberta began upgrading a series of roads to form a north–south, all-weather highway west of Highway 2.
A topographic map of Alberta, showing cities, towns, municipal district (county) and rural municipality borders, and natural features. Alberta, with an area of 661,848 square kilometres (255,541 square miles), is the fourth-largest province after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. [26] Alberta's southern border is the 49th parallel north ...
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Highway 17 is a highway in Canada that straddles and criss-crosses the Alberta–Saskatchewan provincial border. The portion from the provincial border at Dillberry Lake Provincial Park to the provincial border 800 metres (2,600 ft) north of the North Saskatchewan River is designated as Alberta Provincial Highway No. 17 by Alberta Transportation, commonly referred to as Highway 17.