Highway 5, known more commonly as the Fort Smith Highway, completed in 1966, is a highway in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
's
Northwest Territories, which travels through
Wood Buffalo National Park
Wood Buffalo National Park is the largest national park of Canada at . It is located in northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories. Larger in area than Switzerland, it is the second-largest national park in the world. The park w ...
and connects
Fort Smith to
Hay River. At the Alberta border it connects to
Alberta Highway 48
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 48, commonly referred to as Highway 48, has been the designation of two separate highways in Alberta's history. The first was a north–south highway in southern Alberta, Canada that existed between the ...
which runs from
Smith Landing,
Fitzgerald
The FitzGerald/FitzMaurice Dynasty is a noble and aristocratic dynasty of Cambro-Norman, Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman origin. They have been peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the ...
. This highway connects to other area roads going to Hay Camp, and
Peace Point, and form a circle route through Wood Buffalo National Park. Residents of
Fort Chipewyan
Fort Chipewyan , commonly referred to as Fort Chip, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo. It is located on the western tip of Lake Athabasca, adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park, app ...
have petitioned the Alberta government for a road to connect with the area roads out of Fort Smith.
Since 2017, the highway has been fully paved.
References
Northwest Territories territorial highways
{{NorthwestTerritories-road-stub