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Owing to its reputation, Highway 5 is featured predominantly in the reality docuseries Highway Thru Hell, which follows a group of towing companies that operate in the Interior and Highway 5. [ 24 ] On November 14, 2021, a major storm in southern British Columbia damaged sections of the Coquihalla Highway and other routes in the area.
Highway 921:0924: 5.89: 3.66 Hwy 1 (Sagebrush interchange / exit 369) in Kamloops: Hwy 1 (Valleyview interchange / exit 375) in Kamloops: Columbia Street — 2016 Former alignment of Hwy 1: Highway 921:1765: 6.72: 4.18 Hwy 5 south of Clearwater: Clearwater (connects to Hwy 5) Old North Thompson Highway — — Old alignment of Hwy 5: Highway ...
BC Parks Coldwater River Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia , Canada , located at the confluence of the Coldwater River with Cullet Creek, 50 km south of Merritt on BC Highway 5 .
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 ...
Heffley Creek (2018) The historic Heffley Creek store Heffley Creek is a neighbourhood of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada along Highway 5 (the Yellowhead Highway).The city's northernmost community, it is bordered by the North Thompson River to the west, Sun Peaks to the east, Rayleigh to the south, and Vinsulla to the north.
Kamloops (/ ˈ k æ m l uː p s / KAM-loops) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake.
In December 1944, a bridge replaced the ferry [4] at this second crossing of the Pine off BC Highway 97 (Hart Highway). [5] Prior to the completion of the highway bridge at East Pine in 1947, trucking was limited to the winter months because the ferry at that point was unsuitable for loaded coal trucks. [6]
The completion of phase 2 of the Coquihalla Highway project (Merritt–Kamloops) in September 1987 created a faster route to the interior, greatly reducing the Fraser Canyon and Alexandra Bridge traffic. [15] A 2009 report determined the bridge needed major deck rehabilitation and a seismic retrofit. [8]