Secondary Highway 539A, commonly referred to as Highway 539A, is a provincially maintained secondary highway in the

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province of

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, located within

Nipissing District Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay. In 2016, the population was 83,150. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...

. Commencing at a junction with Highway 539 in the community of

River Valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ...

, the highway formerly extended northwesterly for to a point near where the Sturgeon River crosses the boundary between Nipissing and

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at Glen Afton; at this point, the roadway turned northward and continues as Highway 805. The route was later truncated, and now extends for only 5.8 kilometres, with the remainder of the former route having been renumbered as an extension of Highway 805.

Route description

Highway 539A begins at a junction with its parent route, Highway 539. Drivers on Highway 539 must turn to remain on that route, while southbound Highway 539A becomes eastbound Highway 539 to

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. Northbound, drivers round a long curve and enter the community of River Valley. The highway crosses the railbed of a former rail spur, exits the community and crosses the

Temagami River The Temagami River, formerly spelled as Timagami River, is a river in the Nipissing District of Ontario, Canada, in the Temagami region. Its source is Lake Temagami and flows through Cross Lake and Red Cedar Lake. It flows into the Sturgeon Rive ...

. The highway gradually curves to the northwest and hugs the bank of the Sturgeon River.

History

Although Highway 539 was designated in 1956, and the road that is now Highway 539A existed, the route was not designated at that time. The route first appears on the 1958 Official Road Map of Ontario as a short spur of Highway 539 into River Valley. In 1962, Highway 805 was designated within

. In order to connect it with the rest of the provincial highway network, Highway 539A was extended northwest to the Nipissing – Sudbury district boundary. It still follows this same routing today.

Major intersections

References

{{Ontario Secondary Highways 539A Roads in Nipissing District