Wye Road is a major
arterial road
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and rural highway that links
Sherwood Park
Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area. It is adjacent to the City of Edmonton's eastern boundary. While long confined to generally south of Highway 16 ( Ye ...
from
Anthony Henday Drive
Highway 216, better known by its official name of Anthony Henday Drive, is a Controlled-access highway, freeway that ring road, encircles Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a heavily travelled commuter and truck Bypass (road), bypass route with ...
(Highway 216) on the east side of
Edmonton
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to
Highway 14 west of
Tofield.
It is preceded by
Sherwood Park Freeway
Sherwood Park Freeway is a freeway that connects east Edmonton to Sherwood Park in Alberta, Canada. It begins in the Gainer Industrial area, where Argyll Road and 82 (Whyte) Avenue merge, before it intersects 50 Street. It then curves slig ...
, and east of
Highway 21 is designated as Alberta Provincial Highway No. 630, commonly referred to as Highway 630.
Wye Road is part of a continuous roadway that runs through Sherwood Park,
Edmonton
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, and
St. Albert that includes
Sherwood Park Freeway
Sherwood Park Freeway is a freeway that connects east Edmonton to Sherwood Park in Alberta, Canada. It begins in the Gainer Industrial area, where Argyll Road and 82 (Whyte) Avenue merge, before it intersects 50 Street. It then curves slig ...
,
Whyte Avenue
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, portions of
University Avenue and
Saskatchewan Drive,
Groat Road, and
St. Albert Trail.
Wye Road in
Strathcona County
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, is a historic route from the early 1900s connecting Edmonton to
Cooking Lake, parallel to a line of the
Canadian National Railway
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CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...
, and it and Highway 630 used to be synonymous for their entire length.
In the early 1990s, the portion of Highway 630 east of
North Cooking Lake was realigned, resulting in Highway 630 entering
Beaver County and passing through
Lindbrook and subsequently paved,
while the original gravel route is still designated as Wye Road and links with Highway 14 near
Hastings Lake. The portion of Wye Road within Sherwood Park is maintained by Strathcona County and is not officially part of Highway 630.
Major intersections
Starting from the west end of Wye Road:
See also
* Transportation in Edmonton Transport in Edmonton is fairly typical for a Canadian city of its size, involving air, rail, road and public transit.
With very few natural barriers to growth and largely flat to gently rolling terrain bisected by a deep river valley, the city of E ...
References
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630
Roads in Strathcona County