Ontario Highway 11

King's Highway 11 in Ontario, Canada
Basic data
Operator:	Ontario Ministry of Transportation
Start of the street:	Rainy River ( 48 ° 43 ′  N , 94 ° 35 ′  W )
End of street:	Barrie ( 44 ° 25 ′  N , 79 ° 39 ′  W )
Overall length:	1789 km
Region :	Rainy River Thunder Bay Cochrane Timiskaming Nipissing Parry Sound Muskoka Simcoe County
Highway 11 north of North Bay
Course of the road Further on   United States - Canada  Rainy River Rainy River N to Kenora Joint routing with Emo Fort Frances End of shared route with S to International Falls Rainy Lake Mine Center N after Atitokan Thunder Bay O to Kenora Joint routing with Thunder Bay S to Grand Marais , MN W after Kaministiquia Nipigon End of shared route with W to Sudbury Macdiarmid Beardmore Blackwater River Geraldton Kenogamisis Lake Longlac Cochrane Hearst Kapuskasing Cochrane N to Iroquois Falls W to Wawa Joint routing with Matheson End of shared route with O to Québec  Timiskaming W to Matachewan , O to Kearns N to Kirkland Lake Englehart Earlton O to Notre-Dame-du-Nord New Liskeard W to Matachewan O to Haileybury Nipissing S according to Rutter North Bay W to Sudbury Joint routing with N after Témiscaming End of shared route with O to Ottawa Parry Sound for connection to Callander Powassan Trout Creek Laurier S to Sundridge South River Sundridge N to Sundridge , W to Parry Sound Burk's Falls Emsdale Muskoka Huntsville O after Renfrew W to Parry Sound O to Dorset Bracebridge Gravenhurst W to Haliburton Severn River Simcoe County Severn Orillia W to Midland O to Whitby Oro-Medonte Further on   Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Highway 11 is a 1789 km long road in Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 11 begins as a continuation of Minnesota State Highway 72 between Ontario and the US state of Minnesota , crossing the Rainy River at the village of Rainy River . It ends on Ontario Highway 400 at Barrie , where it joins. Highway 11 is in sections a part of the Trans-Canada Highway .

Route

The western beginning of the highway is in Rainy River. It forms the continuation of Minnesota State Highway 72 and leads in an easterly direction. Approx. 50 km after the start of the route, when coming from the north, Ontario Highway 17 meets Highway 11. From here, it is labeled as part of the Trans-Canada Highway . In a common route both run for the next 40 km to Fort Frances , Highway 17 branches off to the south and ends after a few meters at the border with the United States on the Fort Frances-International Falls International Bridge . Highway 11 follows the shore of Rainy Lake , then crosses the lake at a narrow point about 5 km north of the city. The lake is crossed over a distance of almost 4 km with the help of some smaller islands. The highway continues eastwards and reaches a sparsely populated area.

Snow storm at Temiskaming

Highway 11 meets Highway 17 for the first time 280 km east of Fort Frances . Together the highways run for the next 160 km. The route passes through Thunder Bay and follows the shores of Lake Superior . Behind Nipigon the two highways separate. Highway 17 goes east to the city of Sudbury , while Highway 11 goes first north, then east. It opens up the parish Greenstone , which consists of the boroughs Beardmore, Geraldton and Longlac. In Cochrane , the route swings south. Near Porquis Junction, a community east of the Highway 45 km south of Cochrane, Highway 65 branches off to the northeast. The approximately 11 km long highway leads to Iroquois Falls . Highway 11 continues south-east and meets Highway 101 , with which it runs together for 6 km at Black River-Matheson . In New Liskeard , a suburb of Temiskaming Shores , Highway 65 crosses , which leads to the nearby province of Québec .

The route continues south and meets Highway 17 again before the city limits of North Bay , with which the following 4 km run together. Shortly after the freeway expansion began, the two routes separate again, with Highway 17 heading east into Greater Ottawa, while Highway 11 continues south. The following 175 km are developed as a freeway and mostly lead as bypasses around the connected communities. In 2012, the bypass around Sundridge was opened to traffic, the old route is now continued as Highway 124 . The expansion ends south of Gravenhurst . At Orillia another 9 km stretch has been developed as a freeway, where the route also meets Highway 12 , which leads west to Midland and east to Whitby . From here the distinction as a Trans-Canada Highway ends. The following 22 km are not yet developed as a freeway. The freeway begins again at Barrie , but that ends Highway 11 and continues as Highway 400A until it joins Highway 400 .

expansion

The section between Thunder Bay and Nipigon, on which Highway 11 and 17 run together, is to be expanded to four lanes in the coming years. The expansion will take place in sections and should not be completed before 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Highway 11 four-laning rolls along. (No longer available online.) North Bay Nugget, formerly the original ; Retrieved December 17, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Northern Highways Program 2015-2019. (pdf, 989 KB) Ministry of Northern Development and Mines Ontario, August 19, 2015, accessed on April 12, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Ontario Highway 11  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

• Unofficial homepage of the highway