Ontario Highway 17

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Region:

• Kenora
• Thunder Bay
• Algoma District
• Sudbury District
• Greater Sudbury
• Nipissing District
• Renfrew County

The King's Highway 17 with a length of 1964 km is the longest in the Canadian province of Ontario. He belongs to the Trans-Canada Highway system. The beginning of the highway is located on the border with Manitoba and ends west of Ottawa.

• 2.1 Thunder Bay
• 2.2 Lake Superior
• 2.3 Pukaskwa National Park
• 2.4 Lake Huron
• 2.5 Sudbury and Sudbury Basin

• 3.1 Bypass Arnprior
• 3.2 Northern Ontario

Route description

Manitoba - Thunder Bay

Highway 17 is the continuation of the Manitoba Highway 1 Highway through extensive pine forests, the landscape is based on the primeval Canadian Shield. The highway leads east through sparsely populated regions. The first major city is Kenora, there is Highway 17A as a bypass. Approx. 10 km east of Kenora Ontario Highway 71 branches off to the south from. This is also part of the Trans - Canada Highway system, and together with Highway 11 a southern alternative route. He performs at its end on the border between Canada and the United States to International Falls in Minnesota.

The Highways 17 and 71 surround the Eagle Dogtooth Provincial Park, located south of Highway 17. Another 40 km further pushes the Highway on the Winnange Lake Provincial Park. The route follows eastward to kinking at Two Mile Corner, a suburb of Dryden, to the south. 3 km south, in the city proper, then swings back the street layout to the east, 8 km east of Dryden to the southeast in the direction of Lake Superior. Approximately 60 km west of Thunder Bay comes from the west coming Highway 11 to Highway 17 For this southern branch of the Trans-Canada highways is finished. At the entrance comes from the south coming Ontario Highway 61 to Highway 17; This leads on the western outskirts as a bypass past Thunder Bay and is expanded in the area as Expressway.

Thunder Bay - Sudbury

This section runs along the coast to Lake Superior. Past the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, the route runs in double award with Highway 11 to the northeast. At the northernmost point of the lake, at the confluence of the Nipigon River at Nipigon Bay, Highway 11 branches off again. This now provides an alternative northern route of the Trans-Canada highways and ends in Toronto. South of the highway is now the Ruby Lake Provincial Park. The route now follows the north shore of the lake at Marathon. There the Pukaskwa National Park is a large area round, the at Pic River has its northern end and the eastern shore of Superior Lakes is located. in Wawa, the highway comes back to the shore. There also Highway 101 branches off to the east out over the common with Highway 144, the route can be shortened to Sudbury. Highway 17 continues south now through the Lake Superior Provincial Park. 130 km south of the park is Sault Ste. Marie, from where Highway 17 has connection to the U.S. Interstate 75.

From there, the highway runs along the Saint Marys River to the east, and thus get to Lake Huron, on its northern shore, the North Channel he follows up Spanish. In Espanola Highway branches off 6. This leads to the Manitoulin Island, which separates the North Channel of Lake Huron. The route continues to the east and with that comes after Greater Sudbury, short even called Sudbury. The route is built as a bypass around the city, in the south branches off from Highway 69, which later turns into Highway 400 to Toronto. These highways are part of the Trans - Canada Highway.

Sudbury - Ottawa

The highway runs along the southeastern edge of the Sudbury Basin in an arc to the east of the city and turns back eastward. Passing Mark Stay- Warren and West Nipissing, the highway passes to the Lake Nipissing. It runs through the north of North Bay, where Highway 11 meets also coming from the north back to the route. Both highways have for the next 4 km a common route in an arc to the northeast around the city, then the routes separate again, Highway 11 continues south towards Toronto. Highway 17 is now in the Ottawa - Bonnechere Graben, and runs parallel to the Mattawa River. This leads to Mattawa in the Ottawa River whose southern bank on the route follows. In Pembroke, shortens Highway 17 is a flow loop from, but again runs parallel to the river from Horton. From Arnprior, the highway was extended as a freeway, this freeway is run as Highway 417. The old route is still parallel to the freeway over a length of about 14 km and ends at Marathon Village.

Attractions

Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay is a city on the western shore of Lake Superior located. It has about 108,000 inhabitants, making it the second largest city in northern Ontario. It was formed by the merger of several historical cities, including Fort William. In this district is also the same replica of the historic fort that was an important fur trading post at the beginning of the 19th century.

Lake Superior

The Lake Superior to German Lake Superior, is the northernmost of the Great Lakes in North America. He is the geographically largest freshwater lake in the world and after the Caspian Sea, the second largest inland sea in the world. Numerous protected areas, including the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area, located on the shore of the lake.

Pukaskwa National Park

The National Park is located on the eastern shore of Lake Superior, located south of Highway in Marathon. It is the largest National Park in Ontario and is under the administration of Parks Canada, together with the tribes of First Nations, Métis and the Anishinabe. The National Park offers insight into the ecosystem of the boreal forest and you can get an insight into the geological development of the Canadian Shield.

Lake Huron

The Lake Huron is located east of Lake Superior and is fed by this over the Saint Mary's River. The largest lake island in the world Manitoulin, located in the northern area of ​​the lake.

Sudbury and Sudbury Basin

The Sudbury Basin was created before 1.8 billion years ago by the impact of a meteorite. A large asteroid is about 10 km northwest wrapped around Sudbury and has left a large crater about 200 km, result of geological processes that has shrunk to 60 km x 30 km. By the impact of the chemical composition of the Earth's surface has been changed in this area, so that there is the world 's largest nickel deposits here. In the midst of the basin is the largest city in Northern Ontario, Sudbury. The city is known for nickel mining, as well as many tourist destinations are offered that are dedicated to this topic. The biggest attraction of the city is the Science North, a science museum. In addition, the SuperStack Inco, the second largest chimney in the world, with a height of 381 m is about as high as the Empire State Building and the second largest building after the CN Tower, Toronto, Canada in Sudbury.

Expansion projects

Bypass Arnprior

In 2012, the bypass will be widened to four lanes to Arnprior .. Thus this section will be reclassified to Highway 417.

Northern Ontario

In the northern part of the province followed by a further four-lane expansion. Here, the sections of the province of Manitoba border will be expanded over a length of 15 km. In addition, 33 km of the bypass road from Thunder Bay and other eim 16 km area of ​​the Nipigon River will be expanded to four lanes.