Alberta Highway 3

Highway 3 in Alberta, Canada
Crowsnest Highway
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Basic data
Operator:	Alberta Transportation
Start of the street:	Crowsnest Pass ( 49 ° 38 ′  N , 114 ° 42 ′  W )
End of street:	Medicine Hat ( 50 ° 2 ′  N , 110 ° 42 ′  W )
Overall length:	324 km
Municipal District :	Pincher Creek No. 9 Willow Creek No. 26th Lethbridge Taber Forty Mile No. 8th Cypress County
View from Highway 3 to Crowsnest Mountain (right) and the "Seven Sisters" (center) as well as Crowsnest Lake
Course of the road Further on  ===  British Columbia - Alberta  Crowsnest Pass Pincher Creek No. 9 Crowsnest Pass N to Grande Prairie Alternative route N after Black Diamond End of the alternative route Cowley S to Pincher Creek Willow Creek No. 26th N to Calgary common routing with Fort Mcleod End of the common route with S to Cardston connection to Oldman River Lethbridge N to High River Alternative route Lethbridge End of the alternative route N after Picture Butte Oldman River S to Cardston S to Milk River Coaldale Taber Alternative route End of the alternative route Taber S after Warner common routing with N to Lac La Biche Forty Mile No. 8th Cypress County Medicine Hat W after Calgary , O according Winnipeg , O according Medicine Hat -Zentrum  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Alberta Highway 3 (short- AB 3 ), also Crowsnest Highway called, is a highway in the Canadian province of Alberta . It leads from the border to the western neighboring province of British Columbia at the Crowsnest Pass to the city of Medicine Hat . The highway has a length of 324 km and is part of the Canadian National Highway System as a so-called core route .

The Crowsnest Highway is next to the Trans-Canada and the Yellowhead Highway, the southernmost of the three main routes over the Rocky Mountains .

Highway 3 is part of the CANAMEX Corridor between Fort Macleod and Lethbridge . This trade route was defined under the North American Free Trade Agreement and is used for transportation between Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Routing

Highway 3 begins in the Rocky Mountains at Crowsnest Pass as a continuation of British Columbia Highway 3 . Since these two highways cross the Crowsnest Pass, they are collectively known as the Crowsnest Highway. The highway leads east through the Rocky Mountains, at the eastern end of the community of Crowsnest Pass , Highway 40 branches off , which runs lengthways through the Rockys. The Crowsnest River leads out of the mountains along the highway, and the highway largely follows this river. Highway 22 branches off east of the mountains , this leads east of the Rockys to Black Diamond and from there to Calgary . At Pincher Creek , a small town south of Highway 3, Highway 6 joins . This leads south over the Waterton Lakes National Park to the United States . To the north of this junction is Oldman Lake , into which the Crowsnest River flows. This pours into the Oldman River , which the highway follows and crosses several times.

The highway continues east through Fort Macleod to the town of Lethbridge. There it meets the Oldman River for the last time, the riverbed of which now runs further north. In Lethbridge, there is access to the United States via Highway 5 and Highway 4 . The latter leads across the border as Interstate 15 to California . The route continues east to Medicine Hat and ends there as a junction with Highway 1 , the Trans-Canada Highway.

Sections of the Crowsnest Highway are part of the Red Coat Trail system . Between the junctions of Highway 2 and Highway 4, it belongs to this tourist road.

expansion

The route is mostly two-lane, but a part is also four-lane. This begins at the junction of Highway 2 coming from Calgary and ends after 141 km west of Taber.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alberta Highways 1 to 986, traffic volume, vehicle classification, travel and esal statistic reports. (pdf, 581 KB) Government of Alberta - Ministry of Transportation, 2012, p. 8f , accessed on April 8, 2013 . 
2. ^ National Highway System - An Overview. (PDF; 146 kB) Council of Ministers - Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety, April 2008, accessed on June 29, 2016 (English). 
3. ↑ Provincial Highways 1 - progress chart 216th (pdf, 7.92 MB) Government of Alberta - Ministry of Transportation, 2010, accessed on April 8, 2013 .