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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.
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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 ...
Clearwater (connects to Hwy 5) Old North Thompson Highway — — Old alignment of Hwy 5: Highway 921:1771: 2.15: 1.34 Halston Bridge / Kamloops city boundary: Hwy 5 / Paul Lake Road at Kamloops I.R. Halston Road — — Highway 921:1773: 35.52: 22.07 Hwy 5 / Halston Road at Kamloops I.R. McNulty Road northwest of Pritchard • Paul Lake Road ...
This road could be considered superior to any Roman road. [10] In 500 BC, Darius the Great started an extensive road system for Persia, including the famous Royal Road which was one of the finest highways of its time. The road was used even after Roman times.
The Red Bridge was a road bridge that spanned the South Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia.The 400-metre long (1,300 ft) bridge carried two narrow road lanes of Mt. Paul Way between Lorne Street on the south bank of the river to the Mt. Paul industrial area on the north side. Mt. Paul Way then continued for 1.3 km (0.81 mi) through the industrial park to intersect with Highway 5.
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
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. [2]