Route 90, also known as Salmonier Line and St. Mary's Bay Highway, is an north-south Highway on the
Avalon Peninsula
The Avalon Peninsula (french: Péninsule d'Avalon) is a large peninsula that makes up the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland. It is in size.
The peninsula is home to 270,348 people, about 52% of Newfoundland's population, according ...
of
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
. It connects the communities along the eastern side of
St. Mary's Bay with the
Trans Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway ( French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on ...
and
Holyrood. The entire length of Route 90 also forms the western half of Irish Loop Drive.
Route description
Route 90 begins in
St. Vincent's-St. Stephen's-Peter's River at a bridge along the beach, which straddles a narrow isthmus between the ocean and a large lagoon (Holyrood Pond), with the road continuing east as
Route 10. It turns north to pass through the St. Vincent's portion of town before leaving town and heading more inland along the shoreline of
Holyrood Pond. The highway then turns west to pass through
Gaskiers-Point La Haye
Gaskiers-Point La Haye is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, located in St. Mary's Bay. It is located southwest of St. Mary's. It became a local government community in 1970. In 2021, the town had a population of 189.
Demographics
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and follow the coastline again to pass through the towns of
St. Mary's and
Riverhead, where it has an intersection with a local road leading to
Mall Bay. Route 90 then turns inland again as it travels up a narrow valley centered along a small stream (
Riverhead River) for several kilometres before crossing the river and passing northwest through rural wooded and hilly terrain for the next several kilometres. It now passes through
St. Joseph's, where it has an intersection with
Route 94
The following highways are numbered 94:
International
* European route E94
Australia
* List of road routes in Western Australia#94, National Route 94 in Western Australia
* Burley Griffin Way (New South Wales)
* Dohertys Road (Victoria) (New ...
(Admirals Beach Road),
Forest Field-
New Bridge New Bridge may refer to:
Bridges
* Chester New Bridge, County Durham, England
* Most Slovenského Národného Povstania (called the Nový Most, for New Bridge, until 2012), over the Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia
* New Bridge (Dublin), over the Ri ...
, and
Mount Carmel-Mitchells Brook-St. Catherines
Mount Carmel-Mitchells Brook-St. Catherines is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 382 in the Canada 2021 Census.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Can ...
, where it crosses the
Salmonier River and has intersections with
Route 93 (Mount Carmel Road) and
Route 91 (Old Placentia Highway) in the St. Catherine's portion of town. The highway winds its way northeast through rural wooded areas for several kilometres, where it passes by
Salmonier Nature Park, before entering
Holyrood at an interchange with
Route 1 (Trans Canada Highway, Exit 35). Route 90 passes through neighbourhoods and crosses over the
Daniels River
Daniels or Daniel's may refer to:
People
* Daniels (surname)
* Daniels (given name)
* Daniels (directors), Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, a pair of directors
Places United States
*Daniels, Maryland, a former town
**Daniels Mill (Daniels, Mary ...
before entering a business district and coming to an end at an intersection with
Route 60 (Conception Bay Highway) near the coastline of
Conception Bay
Conception Bay (CB) is a bay on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
The population (in 2011) of people living in municipalities (or unincorporated census subdivisions) located along the coast of Conception Bay was 90,490 making it on ...
.
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Major intersections
See also
*
List of highways numbered 90
References
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