List of British Columbia provincial highways

This article lists all existing numbered highways in British Columbia, Canada.

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Major routes

East-west

• The Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, and then from Horseshoe Bay, through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford, Hope, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is the major east-west route in the province.
• The Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) runs from Hope, then through Osoyoos, Castlegar, Cranbrook, right to Crowsnest Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is a southern alternate route to the Trans-Canada, and runs very close to the Canada–US border.
• The Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16) starts on the Queen Charlotte Islands. After a ferry ride to the mainland, it runs from Prince Rupert through Smithers and Prince George, and then meets the Alberta border at Yellowhead Pass.
• The Lougheed Highway (Highway 7) is a major alternate route that runs from Vancouver to Hope, through the lower Fraser Valley.
• The Okanagan Connector (Highway 97C) is a short but major route that connects the Okanagan Valley to the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5) at Merritt. 97C branches off Highway 97 at Peachland, about midway between Penticton and Kelowna.

North-south

• The Island Highway (Highway 19) is an extension of Highway 1 on Vancouver Island. It runs from Nanaimo and provides access to all points northbound on Vancouver Island, including Parksville, Courtenay, Comox, Campbell River, and Port Hardy.
• The Patricia Bay Highway (Highway 17) starts in Victoria and heads northbound as a freeway through Saanich to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. Recently, there was a gap between the segments of Highway 17 (now filled in with the SFPR), as the Mainland portion was designated as Highway 17A. The new South Fraser Perimeter Road has been named as Highway 17, and presently is open in Delta and Surrey between Highway 17a and Highway 15.
• Highway 99 starts as an extension of Interstate 5 at the Canada–US border in Surrey as a freeway until entering the city of Vancouver. There it becomes a series of various heavily signalized major city core thoroughfares, notably Granville Street and Georgia Street. After crossing the Lions Gate Bridge, the highway - now known as the Sea-to-Sky Highway, is a two-to-four lane route that accesses Squamish and Whistler, before veering east and meeting with Highway 97 north of Cache Creek.
• The Coquihalla Highway/Southern Yellowhead Highway (Highway 5) is a freeway that bypasses the slower Fraser Canyon portion of the Trans Canada Highway, connecting the cities of Hope, Merritt, and Kamloops. The segment between Hope and Merritt was a toll highway until 2008. North of Kamloops, the route is known as the Southern Yellowhead Highway, and meets up with the main route of the Yellowhead Highway near the Alberta border.
• Highway 97 is the longest highway in the province. The highway starts at the Canada–US border near Osoyoos. The highway, here known as the Okanagan Highway, passes through the major Okanagan Valley cities of Penticton, West Kelowna, Kelowna, and Vernon, before ending in Kamloops. From Kamloops, it is known as the Cariboo Highway, and passes through Cache Creek, Williams Lake, Quesnel, and ends in Prince George. North from there, it is known as the John Hart Highway, and ends in Dawson Creek. From there, the highway then is known as the famed Alaska Highway, and travels northwest through the province until it reaches the Yukon border.

Route list

List is current as of April 2014, according to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation.

Markers	Highway	Other names	Description	Length (km)	Highest Point (m)
	Highway 1	Trans-Canada Highway	from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, on the Mainland from Vancouver through Hope, Cache Creek, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Golden to the Alberta border, toll road at the Port Mann Bridge	1,048	1,627
	Highway 1A	Chemainus Road	•Near Crofton, through Chemainus	17
		Stanley Park Causeway, Georgia Street, Dunsmuir Street, Main Street, Kingsway, 10th Avenue, McBride Boulevard, King George Boulevard	Old alignment of Highway 1, through West Vancouver, Stanley Park, Downtown Vancouver, Burnaby, and Surrey via Pattullo Bridge	36
		Fraser Highway	Old alignment of Highway 1, through Langley Township, Aldergrove, and Abbotsford	38
	Highway 2	Tupper Highway	Dawson Creek through Tupper to Alberta border	37
	Highway 3	Crowsnest Highway	Junction with Highway 1 at Hope to Crowsnest Pass	837
	Highway 3A	Kaleden Highway	Junction with Highway 3 at Keremeos to Highway 97 south of Kaleden, then via Highway 97 to Osoyoos	85
			Castlegar through Nelson to Creston	154
	Highway 3B		Nancy Greene Lake through Rossland and Trail to Meadows	85
	Highway 4	Alberni Highway	•Qualicum Beach to Port Alberni	41
		Pacific Rim Highway	•Port Alberni to Tofino	123
	Highway 4A	Old Alberni Highway	Coombs to Parksville	10
	Highway 5	Coquihalla Highway	•Othello through Merritt to Kamloops	187
		Southern Yellowhead Highway	•Kamloops to Tête Jaune Cache	349
	Highway 5A	Princeton-Kamloops Highway	Princeton through Aspen Grove to Kamloops. Pre-1986 Highway 5.	182
	Highway 6	Monashee Highway	Nelway through Nelson and Needles Ferry to Vernon	407	1,241
	Highway 7	Lougheed Highway, Broadway	Vancouver along Fraser River North Bank to Haig	150
	Highway 7A	Hastings Street, Barnet Highway, St Johns Street, Inlet Drive (Decommissioned)	Vancouver to Coquitlam	25
	Highway 7B	Mary Hill Bypass	Alternate loop to Highway 7 in Port Coquitlam	9
	Highway 8	Nicola Highway	Lower Nicola to Spences Bridge	61
	Highway 9	Agassiz-Rosedale Highway, Hot Springs Road	Rosedale to Harrison Hot Springs	16
	Highway 10	56/58 Avenue, Glover Road	Delta to Langley Township	26
		Ladner Trunk Road (Decommissioned)	Ladner to Delta	14
	Highway 11	Sumas Way, Abbotsford Mission Highway	Sumas to Mission	17
	Highway 12	Lytton-Lillooet Highway	Lytton to Lillooet	62
	Highway 13	•264th Street •Aldergrove Highway	Canada–US border to Highway 1	11
	Highway 14	•Juan de Fuca Highway •West Coast Road	Langford to Port Renfrew	103
	Highway 15	•176th Street •Pacific Highway	Truck Customs through Cloverdale to Highway 1	20
	Highway 16	Queen Charlottes Highway	•Masset to Skidegate	101
		Yellowhead Highway	•Prince Rupert through Prince George to Yellowhead Pass	1,246
	Highway 17	Patricia Bay Highway	•Victoria to North Saanich	31
		South Fraser Perimeter Road	•Tsawwassen to Highway 1 in Surrey	44
	Highway 17A	West Saanich Road (Decommissioned)	Older alignment of Highway 17 from Royal Oak Drive in Saanich to Wain Road in North Saanich	27
			Older alignment of Highway 17 from Deltaport Way in Tsawwassen to Highway 99 north of Ladner	4.8
	Highway 18	Cowichan Valley Highway	Duncan to Youbou	42
	Highway 19	Island Highway	Nanaimo to Port Hardy	406
	Highway 19A		•Business route through Nanaimo	12
		Oceanside Route	•Parksville to Campbell River	123
	Highway 20	Chilcotin Highway	Williams Lake to Bella Coola	457	1,487
	Highway 21	Creston-Rykerts Highway	Rykerts to Creston	14
	Highway 22	Schofield Highway	Paterson to Castlegar	47
	Highway 22A	Waneta Highway	Waneta to Montrose	11
	Highway 23	Big Bend Highway	Nakusp to Mica Creek	250
	Highway 24	Interlakes Highway	Little Fort to 93 Mile House	97
	Highway 26	Barkerville Highway	Quesnel to Barkerville	82
	Highway 27	Stuart Lake Highway	Vanderhoof to Fort St. James	53
	Highway 28	Strathcona Highway	Campbell River to Gold River	89
	Highway 29	Don Phillips Way	Tumbler Ridge to Charlie Lake	237
	Highway 30	Port Alice Road	Keogh to Port Alice	30
	Highway 31	Selkirk Highway	Balfour to Galena Bay	175
	Highway 31A		Kaslo to New Denver	47
	Highway 33	Kelowna-Rock Creek Highway	Rock Creek to Kelowna	129
	Highway 35	North Francois Highway	Burns Lake to Francois Lake	23
	Highway 37	Stikine Highway	Kitimat through Terrace to Upper Liard	874
	Highway 37A	Glacier Highway	Meziadin Junction to Stewart and Hyder	65
	Highway 39	Mackenzie Boulevard	Junction with Highway 97 to Mackenzie	29
	Highway 41	Danville Highway	Danville to Carson on Highway 3	1.3
	Highway 43	Elk Valley Highway	Sparwood to Elkford	35
	Highway 49	Spirit River Highway	Dawson Creek to Alberta border	16
	Highway 52	Heritage Highway	Arras through Tumbler Ridge to Tupper	243
	Highway 77	Liard Highway	Junction with Alaska Highway to NWT border	138
	Highway 91	Annacis Highway	•Delta to Annacis Island	11
		Richmond Freeway, East-West Connector	•Across Richmond	12
	Highway 91A	Queensborough Connector	Spur into New Westminster	3.5
	Highway 93	Kootenay Highway	Continuation of U.S. Route 93 at Roosville to Alberta border at Kootenay National Park	317
	Highway 95	Columbia Highway	Continuation of U.S. Route 95 at Kingsgate through Cranbrook to Golden	329
	Highway 95A	Kimberley Highway	Older alignment of Highway 95 through Kimberley	55
	Highway 97	Okanagan Highway	•Continuation of U.S. Route 97 at Osoyoos to Monte Creek	269
		Trans-Canada Highway	•Concurrency with Highway 1 from Monte Creek to Cache Creek	110
		Cariboo Highway	•Cache Creek to Prince George	441
		John Hart Highway	•Prince George to Dawson Creek	405
		Alaska Highway	•Dawson Creek to Yukon border	965
	Highway 97A	Vernon-Sicamous Highway	Vernon to Sicamous	65
	Highway 97B	Grindrod-Salmon Arm Highway	Grindrod to Salmon Arm	14
	Highway 97C	Okanagan Connector	Peachland to Cache Creek	220	1,728
	Highway 97D	Meadow Creek Road	Junction with Highway 5 north of Merritt to Logan Lake	24
	Highway 99	Vancouver-Blaine Highway, Sea-to-Sky Highway, Taylor Way, Marine Drive, Stanley Park Causeway, Lions Gate Bridge Road, Georgia Street, Granville Street, 70th Ave	Douglas through Metro Vancouver and Whistler to Highway 97 north of Cache Creek	409	1,275
	Highway 99A	King George Boulevard, McBride Boulevard, 10th Avenue, Kingsway, Main Street, Dunsmuir Street (Decommissioned)	Older alignment of Highway 99 through Metro Vancouver	50
	Highway 101	Sunshine Coast Highway	Langdale to Powell River	130
			Powell River to Lund (Decommissioned)	23
	Highway 113	Nisga'a Highway	Terrace through Gitlakdamix to Cranberry Junction	158
	Highway 118	Central Babine Lake Highway	Topley to Granisle	50
	Highway 395		Continuation of U.S. Route 395 at Washington (state) border at Laurier to Cascade	4

The following routes are maintained by the Ministry of Transportation as part of British Columbia's highway system, but they are currently un-numbered:

• Atlin Highway
• Bridge River Road (informally known as Highway 40)
• Cecil Lake Road (informally known as Highway 103)
• Coalmont Road
• Head Bay Road
• Hemlock Valley Road
• Horsefly Road
• Jesmond Road
• Knight Street - Freeway section
• Likely Road
• Mission Mountain Road (often just "Mission Mountain")
• Mount Washington Road (also known as "Strathcona Parkway")
• Nazko Road (informally known as Highway 59)
• Pavilion Mountain Road (often just "Pavilion Mountain")
• Port Mellon Highway
• Queen Charlotte City-Skidegate Road
• Telegraph Creek Road (informally known as Highway 51)
• Westside Road

Yukon highways in British Columbia

Highways 2 (Klondike Highway) and 3 (Haines Highway) in the northwest corner of the province are part of the Yukon territorial highway system and are not listed here or designated as BC highways.

Although some editions of The Milepost identify the B.C. portion of the Haines Highway as Highway 4, this is not an official highway number for the route.

Although the Alaska Highway crosses the 60th parallel north, and thus the border with the Yukon, nine times (including six crossings between historic miles 588 and 596), the highway route number changes just once, between Lower Post, B.C., and Watson Lake, Yukon. The Yukon section east of here is maintained by Public Works Canada as part of the B.C. portion of Highway 97, while the B.C. section west of here is maintained by the Yukon Government as part of Yukon Highway 1.

Defunct route numbers

The first two freeways built in British Columbia were given 400-series numbers, much like the 400-Series Highways in Ontario. Highways 401 and 499 were renumbered 1 and 99 respectively in 1973. The section of Highway 37 between Terrace and Kitimat was known as Highway 25 until 1986. In recent years, many routes have been devolved to regional and/or municipal authorities and have lost their official highway status, notably the Fraser Highway in the Lower Mainland (formerly part of Highway 1A) and West Saanich Road on Vancouver Island (formerly Highway 17A). Also King George Highway through Surrey was renamed by the City in 2010 to King George Boulevard. (formerly British Columbia Highway 99A). Some roads have informal highway numbers (e.g. 40, 51, 59) used by locals and are referred to by these numbers on provincial highway condition listings but are not signed as highways or listed as provincial highways on the Ministry of Transportation website.

External links

• Official Numbered Routes in British Columbia (British Columbia Ministry of Transportation)
• Map of numbered highways in British Columbia
• British Columbia Highway Cams
• Drive BC
• British Columbia Highways Website

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