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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".
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]
Entering Bow Valley Provincial Park Mountain scenery at Middle Lake in Bow Valley Provincial Park A trail follows the top of an esker in Bow Valley Provincial Park. The spectacular mountains that flank the park, such as Mount Yamnuska, consist of resistant Cambrian to Devonian age carbonate rocks that have been placed on top of softer Late Cretaceous sandstones and shales by the McConnell ...
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 second parkway, the Bow Valley Parkway also links Lake Louise and the Town of Banff. Known as Highway 1A, this road parallels Highway 1 and, at the midpoint, passes the Castle Mountain junction where Highway 93 south, or the Banff-Windermere Highway, branches southwest into Kootenay National Park in British Columbia. [3] Bow Lake
It then crosses the Bow River on a 2 lane bridge. Upon reaching the other side of the river it passes though three more signal lights at Griffin Road, Quigley Drive and Bow Valley Trail (Highway 1A) in short succession (the later is currently being replaced with an interchange). It then proceeds up a hill (with a northbound uphill passing lane ...
Highway 22X is a highway in and around Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, extending 54 kilometres (34 mi) to the east from Highway 22. [2] It is concurrent with Stoney Trail (Highway 201) between 53 Street SW and 88 Street SE in Calgary, becoming a freeway and forming the southernmost portion of a ring road around Calgary.
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 686, also known as Highway 686, is an east–west highway in northern Alberta, Canada.It has two sections; the main section is a gravel highway that spans approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) from Highway 88 (Bicentennial Highway) near Red Earth Creek to Trout Lake, and a two-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) developing freeway section in Fort McMurray which connects ...