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The freeway alignment of Highway 99 between 8th Avenue in South Surrey and the North Arm of the Fraser River opened in 1962 and was originally named the Deas (Island) Throughway. Between 1964 and 1973, the freeway alignment of Highway 99 was designated Highway 499; [133] the old alignment was redesignated as Highway 99A. [134]
Brandywine Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located adjacent to BC Highway 99 between Garibaldi and Whistler, British Columbia. [1] It is managed by Sea to Sky Parks for BC Parks.
The designation Sea to Sky Highway ends at Mount Currie , though Highway 99 continues on northwards over Cayoosh Pass to Lillooet. Locations beyond Mount Currie-Lillooet Lake along the route of the rail line and the frontier-era Douglas Road are not usually considered in the Corridor, but sometimes are even though they are not on the Sea to Sky Highway.
Nairn Falls Provincial Park (Ucwalmícwts (Lillooet): Skweskwistqw7am, IPA: [ʃkʷəʃkʷeʃtqʷʔɛm]) is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on the Green River adjacent to British Columbia Highway 99 and the Canadian National Railway line just south of Pemberton and less than twenty minutes north of the resort town of Whistler.
In the early hours of 28 October 1981, [4] following heavy rains, a debris torrent swept away the small timber bridge on British Columbia Highway 99.Nine people lost their lives in the darkness and confusion, [5] going off the highway into the creek's deep canyon, some despite being warned by one driver who had seen the first two cars go in ahead of him.
Highway 99A is a series of former highways in the southwestern part of British Columbia, Canada.It was the designation of the former 1942 alignment of Highway 99 as well a various alternate routes which existed in the 1950s and 1960s.
Paving of the Duffy Lake Road (Highway 99) to Lillooet was completed in 1991. [70] The narrow Squamish to Whistler gravel road built in the early 1960s was extended to Pemberton in 1964. [59] This road was paved in 1969 as far Mount Currie. [71]
Whistler is located on British Columbia Highway 99, also known as the "Sea to Sky Highway", approximately 58 km (36 mi) north of Squamish, and 125 km (76 mi) from Vancouver. The highway connects Whistler to the British Columbia Interior via Pemberton-Mount Currie to Lillooet and connections beyond to the Trans-Canada and Cariboo Highways.
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