Alberta Highway 93

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• Improvement District No.. 09
• Improvement District No.. 12

The Highway 93 in the Canadian province of Alberta leading to a length of 266 km in Nord-/Süd-Richtung through the Rocky Mountains. It begins at the border with the province of British Columbia on Vermillion Pass in Banff National Park and ends south of Jasper at the junction to Highway 16, the Yellowhead Highway in Jasper National Park.

Sections

The Highway 93 can be divided into three sections:

Banff -Windermere Highway

On Vermillion Pass the British Columbia Highway 93 from the south crosses the border between the provinces coming and for Alberta Highway 93 By crossing the border, the highway has not only switched to another province, but also from Kootenay National Park in British Columbia to Banff National Park in Alberta. The now following about 10 km to the junction with Highway 1 Highway 93 is also Banff -Windermere Highway called.

Trans-Canada Highway

Near the town of Vermillion Crossing meets the Highway 93 to Highway 1, which also forms the southern course of the Trans-Canada Highway here. For the next 30 km, these two highways run together. The streets cross first the Bow River before reaching the village of Lake Louise. Shortly after the village, the two highways separate again. The Trans-Canada Highway continues to take its way towards the west, with the town of Golden in British Columbia as the next city. The Highway 93 turns after the separation back north.

Icefields Parkway

After separation from Highway 1 Highway 93 is now called the Icefields Parkway and leads to the following 230 kilometers to Jasper. It runs in a northerly direction along several rivers. In the southern section is located west of the road to the Bow River. Along the route there are numerous viewpoints and parking areas, from which the famous lakes and mountains can be achieved. At the northern end of the Bow River is the Bow Lake, Bow of the Glacier ( Bow Glacier ) is fed. The road crosses here the Bow Summit, with 2088 m the highest point of the route. In the subsequent high valley, between numerous mountains with heights of more than 3000 m, followed by the Peyto Lake, which flows into the Mistaya River. Along its course leads Highway 93 continues north, it then crosses the North Saskatchewan River, in the Mistaya River flows. When the mouth is the only settlement along the route, Saskatchewan River Crossing. The settlement is on the route between Banff and Jasper, the only way to refuel, and to supplement supplies. In the settlement and the Highway 11 branches off. This highway to the North Saskatchewan River following from here to Rocky Mountain House and Red Deer. Highway 93 follows upstream of the North Saskatchewan River to the north and passes over the Sunwapta Pass at an altitude of 2030 m in the Jasper National Park.

West of the park boundary is crossed the Columbia Icefield to German Columbia Icefield, which is used as a name for the route. It can be seen from the road but only one leading out of the rink, glacier, Athabasca Glacier.

The highway skirts the Sunwapta Rivers until it pivots at the Sunwapta Falls to the west and then empties into the Athabasca River. After about 9 km of the highway, however, is back in a river valley, now in the already mentioned Athabasca Rivers.

At Athabasca Falls, about 30 kilometers south of Jasper, Alberta Highway 93A branches off. It is the former route of Highway 93, the two highways run to left and right of the Athabasca River further north, around, shortly after the highway has 93 crosses the Athabasca River to unite about 6 km before Jasper again. The last few kilometers of the Icefields Parkway runs now through commercial areas of Jasper, to terminate at an intersection for Alberta Highway 16, which represents the northern Trans-Canada Highway here.

Highway 93 is a charge to its full length, as it is completely in national parks. However, since the beginning and the end is each access roads, which are already in the national park, no tolls are payable directly along the route, where the fee is to British Columbia Highway 93 and on Highway 16.