Fort Road is a discontinuous street in
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city ancho ...
, Alberta, Canada. Historically it was a major route in connecting Edmonton and
Fort Saskatchewan
Fort Saskatchewan is a city along the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. It is northeast of Edmonton, the provincial capital. It is part of the Edmonton census metropolitan area and one of 24 municipalities that constitute the Edmo ...
. It was formed on the west side of the
Canadian National Railway line that formerly connected the two cities, and crossed the
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows from the Canadian Rockies continental divide east to central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River to make up the Saskatchewan River. Its water flows event ...
just south of the current
Highway 15 bridge. As the city of Edmonton expanded its grid street system, and realigned the highway to
Manning Drive, portions of Fort Road ceased to exist.
At the intersection of Fort Road and 66th street stands the Transit Hotel, which opened in 1908.
This is in the Village of
North Edmonton, annexed by the City of Edmonton in 1912.
Fort Road is divided into three major sections:
*the southern section between
112 Avenue northeast to
Wayne Gretzky Drive
Wayne Gretzky Drive is a freeway in Edmonton, Alberta. Originally Capilano Drive/Capilano Freeway, it was officially renamed October 1, 1999, after NHL hockey player Wayne Gretzky, as a tribute to his years with the Edmonton Oilers. The same da ...
is a
collector road through established residential neighbourhoods;
*the central section between
Wayne Gretzky Drive
Wayne Gretzky Drive is a freeway in Edmonton, Alberta. Originally Capilano Drive/Capilano Freeway, it was officially renamed October 1, 1999, after NHL hockey player Wayne Gretzky, as a tribute to his years with the Edmonton Oilers. The same da ...
,
Yellowhead Trail
Yellowhead Trail is a expressway segment of the Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) in northern Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It carries a significant amount of truck traffic to and from the industrial areas of north Edmonton and serves as a key c ...
and 137 Avenue is a 4-6 lane
arterial road
An arterial road or arterial thoroughfare is a high-capacity urban road that sits below freeways/motorways on the road hierarchy in terms of traffic flow and speed. The primary function of an arterial road is to deliver traffic from collector r ...
, where it is the northern continuation of Wayne Gretzky Drive and is a continuation of Manning Drive, which ends at Yellowhead Highway at 50th Street; and
*the northern section north of 153 Avenue is a rural road segmented by
Anthony Henday Drive
Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) is a freeway that encircles Edmonton, Alberta. It is a heavily travelled commuter and truck bypass route with the southwest quadrant serving as a portion of the CANAMEX Corridor that links C ...
, finally terminating at 227 Avenue, near Manning Drive. (Manning Drive at this point continues to the northeast on the line of the old Fort Road.)
Nearby
Victoria Trail
Victoria Trail is an arterial road in northeast Edmonton, Alberta. It begins at the Yellowhead Trail interchange, then travels north through a number of neighborhoods, and currently ends at 153 Avenue. The City of Edmonton plans to expand t ...
is built on a different trail that also was part of the Carlton Trail network. Where Victoria Trail ends, at 153 Avenue, Fort Road is nearby.
Another portion of the historic Fort Trail exists in
Sturgeon County
Sturgeon County is a municipal district the Edmonton Metropolitan Region of Alberta, Canada. It is north of Edmonton and west of the North Saskatchewan River. Sturgeon County is located in Division No. 11 and was named for the Sturgeon River ...
. ''Old Fort Trail'' comes off Manning Drive not far from where Fort Road terminated at 227 Avenue. It runs to the former crossing of the North Saskatchewan River into Fort Saskatchewan. The 1905 bridge was replaced for car traffic by a new bridge built in 1957 and then finally dismantled in the late 1980s. The bridge's piers still stand in the river, near the end of Old Fort Trail.
Major intersections
This is a list of major intersecting streets, starting at the south end of Fort Road.
See also
*
Transportation in Edmonton The city of Edmonton, Alberta, has a transportation network fairly typical for a Canadian city of its size, involving most modes of transport including, but certainly not limited to, air, rail, road and public transit.
With very few natural barriers ...
References
Roads in Edmonton
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