Ontario Provincial Highway Network

This is a list of provincial highways in Ontario, Canada. Many of these highways were once operated and maintained by the provincial government, but were later devolved to the counties and municipalities through which they passed in the 1990s.

Highway classes

Ontario has three distinct classes of highways (French voie publique): King's Highways, secondary highways, and tertiary roads. All three classes are legally included in the scope of King's Highways (French route principale), with individual highways referred to as "that part of the King's Highway known as No. xx," or simply "the King's Highway known as No. xx."

However, the term King's Highways has been deprecated over the past quarter century, and the old signs were replaced circa 1993. Currently, these highways are designated "provincial highways" or "provincially maintained highways" by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Both terms are sometimes used within the same regulation as the older term is phased out.

King's Highways

A King's Highway shield

The King's Highways are currently numbered 2 to 148. The Ministry of Transportation never designated a Highway 1.

400-Series Highways are a special class. The 400-series highways include Highways 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 416, 417, 420, 427, and the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW), which is actually designated as Highway 451. Some highway numbers are suffixed with a letter. The letter will be one of 'A' ("Alternate route"), 'B' ("Business route"), or 'S' ("Scenic route").

Highway markers take on one of three designs depending on its use. Standard road shields placed on the highway itself consist of a shield design topped with a crown. In the current design, the highway number and the word "ONTARIO" appear on the shield. Junction signs (used at intersections and on the signs of 400-Series Highways) show a large white crown with the route number in it. Trailblazer signs (those indicating a route "to" a highway) will look like one of the first two but will be green instead of white.

The speed limit on King's Highways is generally 80 km/h (50 mph), except for the Trans-Canada Highway routes and certain other highways in northern Ontario, which are 90 km/h (55 mph), and 400-series highways and most other freeways, which are generally 100 km/h (65 mph).

Secondary

Secondary highways exist in northern Ontario (and used to exist in Central and Eastern Ontario) to connect towns and remote areas. These highways are currently numbered from 502 to 673. Secondary highway markers are trapezoid-shaped. On the face of the marker appear, in order from top to bottom, the Ontario coat of arms, the number of the highway, and the word "ONTARIO".

A few secondary highways remain gravel-surfaced, although most have been paved. The speed limit on nearly all of these routes is 80 km/h (50 mph), although Highway 655 is posted at 90 km/h (55 mph).

Tertiary

Tertiary roads connect those regions in northern Ontario not served by secondary highways. Legally, "road" (French route) has the same meaning as highway. These roads are currently numbered 801 to 811, and are marked by a simple rectangular marker with rounded corners bearing the number of the highway and the word "ONTARIO".

Most of these roads are gravel-surfaced and low-standard. The speed limit on these routes is 80 km/h (50 mph), although design standards generally override such.

Others

In addition to these three classes of highways, the Ministry of Transportation maintains other roads (Resource roads, Industrial roads) that are of strategic importance to the Ministry, but which are not important enough to be given any special marking. These roads are designated with 7000-series numbers, though they are not publicly marked as such.

Some 7000-series highways are listed below:

• Main Street Tunnel in Welland, Ontario: Highway 7146
• Highway 2 in Windsor, Ontario, from Highway 3 to Banwell Road: Highway 7087.
• Bloomfield Road (Park Ave. to 401) in Chatham, Ontario: 7116
• Winter Ferry Dock with Highway 96 on Wolfe Island: 7051
• Highway 8 in Kitchener, Ontario: 7187. Now part of Highway 8.
• Ontario Street, in Burk's Falls, Ontario: 7162.
• Rest Acres Road, in Paris, Ontario: 7094. Now part of Highway 24
• Peter Road, near Bothwell, Ontario: 7106. Now a municipal road.
• Willard Lake Road, in Willard Lake, Ontario (Kenora, Unorganized, Ontario, Kenora District, Ontario). A portion of this old Hwy 17 alignment is still maintained by MTO as an access road to Willard Lake. It has an unposted designation of Hwy 7057. It is located 72 km west of Vermillion Bay, Ontario, between Kenora, Ontario and Ignace, Ontario.
• Rockeries Road (Old alignment of Highway 17 near Clearwater Bay, Ontario: 7125
• Eastport Drive, in Hamilton, Ontario, along the Queen Elizabeth Way: 7189

Also, in Southern Ontario and in the city of Greater Sudbury there are systems of regional, municipal or county roads that are also numbered. These roads are maintained by the local government (Township, City, or County/District/Region), not by the province.

King's Highways

• Highway 2 – Tyendinaga Indian Reserve at Highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2 to Marysville, Ontario at Highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2
• Highway 3 – Windsor at the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River at the USA-Canada border to Junction Highway 77 and Essex County Highway 33 north of Leamington; and Junction Highway 4 and Elgin County Highway 4, and Elgin County Highway 3 at Talbotville Royal northwest of St. Thomas to Junction Cement Rd. and Niagara Regional Highway 3 west of Port Colborne; and Junction Highway 140 and Niagara Regional Highway 3 at Port Colborne to Junction Rose Hill Rd. and Niagara Regional Highway 3 west of Fort Erie
• Highway 4 – St. Thomas to Clinton
• Highway 5 – Peters Corners to Clappison's Corners
• Highway 6 – Port Dover to Espanola, connects to the Trans-Canada Highway via ferry, from Tobermory to South Baymouth.
• Highway 7 – Highway 4 at Lucan to Highway 410/Heart Lake Road in Brampton; from Durham Regional Road 1 (Brock Road) in Pickering to Highway 7A near Peterborough; and from Highway 115 in Peterborough to Highway 417 in Kanata
• Highway 7A – Manchester (west of Port Perry) to Peterborough.
• Highway 8 – Peters Corners to Cambridge, and Kitchener to Goderich.
• Highway 9 – Kincardine to Harriston and from Orangeville to Davis Drive Interchange, near Pottageville.
• Highway 10 – Brampton to Owen Sound.
• Highway 11 – Yonge Street, NE of Barrie to Rainy River, it's the Trans-Canada Highway from North Bay west.
• Highway 12 – Brooklin to Midland.
• Highway 15 – Kingston to Carleton Place
• Highway 16 – Highway 416 to Johnstown where it connects to a bridge to Ogdensburg, New York.
• Highway 17 – Arnprior west to the Manitoba border west of Kenora, the Trans-Canada Highway.
• Highway 19 – Tillsonburg to Ingersoll
• Highway 20 – Allanburg to Niagara Falls
• Highway 21 – Highway #402 near Forest to Owen Sound.
• Highway 23 – Lucan to Harriston
• Highway 24 – Simcoe to south of Cambridge, known as King George Road, Fariveiw Rd. and Tolgate Rd. in Brantford.
• Highway 26 – Owen Sound to Bayfield Street in Barrie.
• Highway 27 – Only 1.5km left exists within the interchange between Highway 427 and the Queen Elizabeth Way
• Highway 28 – east of Peterborough to Highway 41 near Denbigh.
• Highway 33 – Bloomfield to Kingston
• Highway 34 – Highway 417 to Hawkesbury.
• Highway 35 – Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (former Bowmanville-Clarke line) to Highway 60.
• Highway 37 – Belleville to Actinolite
• Highway 40 – Chatham to Sarnia
• Highway 41 – Kaladar to Pembroke
• Highway 48 – Markham Road in Markham, Ontario to ON-12 east of Beaverton, Ontario.
• Highway 49 – North of Marysville to the Quinte Skyway.
• Highway 58 – Thorold junction, St. David's Road Interchange, to Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls.
• Highway 60 – Huntsville to Renfrew
• Highway 61 – continuation of former US 61 (now Minnesota State Highway 61), Minnesota boundary to Thunder Bay.
• Highway 62 – Bloomfield, Ontario to Highway 60 in Barry's Bay.
• Highway 63 – North Bay to Quebec boundary.
• Highway 64 – Alban to Marten River
• Highway 65 – Matachewan to Quebec boundary.
• Highway 66 – 2parts: Matachewan to Kirkland Lake western city limits, and from Kirkland Lake eastern city limits to the Quebec border.
• Highway 67 – ON-101, E of Timmins to Iroquois Falls.
• Highway 69 – originally north of Coldwater, now extends from Parry Sound to the Trans-Canada Highway near Sudbury.
• Highway 71 – Barwick to Kenora, part of the Trans-Canada Highway
• Highway 72 – Dinorwic to Sioux Lookout
• Highway 77 – Leamington to Comber
• Highway 85 – Highway 7 in Kitchener to the northern limit of Waterloo Regional Municipality
• Highway 88 – Bradford to Bond Head
• Highway 89 – Harriston to Cookstown
• Highway 93 – Hillsdale to Midland
• Highway 94 – Wisawasa to Corbeil
• Highway 101 – Wawa to the Ontario-Quebec Border north of New Liskeard
• Highway 102 – Trans-Canada Highway to Thunder Bay
• Highway 105 – Vermillion Bay to Red Lake
• Highway 108 – Serpent River to Elliot Lake
• Highway 112 – Highway 11 to Kirkland Lake
• Highway 115 – Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (former Bowmanville-Clarke boundary) to east of Peterborough.
• Highway 118 – Muskoka Falls to Paudash
• Highway 124 – Parry Sound to Sundridge
• Highway 125 – Red Lake to Balmertown.
• Highway 127 – Maynooth to Whitney
• Highway 128 – Kenora to Redditt; now Highway 658.
• Highway 129 – Thessalon to Chapleau
• Highway 130
• Highway 132 – Dacre to Renfrew
• Highway 137 – highway connection Highway 401 to Interstate 81
• Highway 138 – Cornwall to Highway 417.
• Highway 140 – 11.8 km (7.3 miles) in length connecting Highway 3 in Port Colborne to Highway 406 in Welland by means of the Main Street Tunnel.
• Highway 141 – Hayes Corners to Utterson
• Highway 144 – Sudbury to Timmins
• Highway 148 – Pembroke to Quebec border

There are no highways having the numbers 1 or 13.

400-Series highways

• A list of 400-series roads or freeways can be found at 400-Series Highways.

Secondary highways

• Highway 502 – from Highway 11 near Fort Frances to Highway 17 near Dryden. Formerly in Southern Ontario between Napanee and Marysville in Lennox and Addington County as an alternate route while a portion of Highway 401 was being constructed.
• Highway 510 – Highway 520 in Magnetawan to Highway 124
• Highway 516 – Highway 72 in Sioux Lookout to Highway 599
• Highway 518 – Highway 69 near Parry Sound to Kearney
• Highway 519 – Highway 17 north of Wawa to Dubreuilville
• Highway 520 – Ardbeg to Highway 124 near Dunchurch; Highway 124 near Magnetawan to Burk's Falls
• Highway 522 – Highway 69 near Grundy Lake Provincial Park to Highway 11 in Trout Creek
• Highway 523 – Hastings County border to Highway 60 at Madawaska
• Highway 524 – Highway 522 near Commanda to Highway 534 near Restoule
• Highway 525 – Highway 596 near Minaki to near Whitedog
• Highway 526 – Britt to Highway 69
• Highway 527 – Highways 11 and 17 near Thunder Bay to Armstrong. Once Provincial Highway 800.
• Highway 528 – Highway 64 in French River to the community of Wolseley Bay
• Highway 528A – Highway 528 near the community of Wolseley Bay to the Wolseley Bay water body
• Highway 529 – Highway 69 near Pointe au Baril Station to Highway 69 near Byng Inlet and Britt
• Highway 529A – Bayfield Inlet to Highway 529
• Highway 531 – Bonfield to Highway 17
• Highway 532 – Searchmont northward for a few kilometers
• Highway 533
• Highway 534
• Highway 535
• Highway 537
• Highway 538
• Highway 539
• Highway 539A
• Highway 540
• Highway 540A
• Highway 540B
• Highway 542
• Highway 542A
• Highway 546
• Highway 547
• Highway 548
• Highway 550 – Sault Ste. Marie to shore of Whitefish Bay at Gros Cap
• Highway 551
• Highway 552 – originally part of Highway 17, runs from Highway 556 to Goulais River.
• Highway 553 – The town of Massey, Ontario to Highway 810
• Highway 554
• Highway 555
• Highway 556 – originally part of Highway 17 from Heyden to Ont. Hwy 552. Considered the "Searchmont Highway" because it leads to Hwy 532 which passes throught the town of Searchmont
• Highway 557
• Highway 558
• Highway 559
• Highway 560
• Highway 560A
• Highway 562
• Highway 563
• Highway 564
• Highway 565 – from Highway 550 to mouth of St. Mary's River.
• Highway 566
• Highway 567
• Highway 568
• Highway 569
• Highway 570
• Highway 571
• Highway 572
• Highway 573
• Highway 574
• Highway 575
• Highway 576
• Highway 577
• Highway 579
• Highway 580
• Highway 581
• Highway 582 – loops around Ontario Hwy 11/17 through Hurkett.
• Highway 583
• Highway 584
• Highway 585 – Highway 17 near Nipigon northward 36 kilometers.
• Highway 586
• Highway 587 – from Highway 17/11 northwest of Pass Lake to Sleeping Giant (Sibley).
• Highway 588
• Highway 589
• Highway 590
• Highway 591
• Highway 592
• Highway 593 – originally part of Highway 61.
• Highway 594
• Highway 595
• Highway 596
• Highway 597
• Highway 599 – from Highway 17 near Ignace to Pickle Lake.
• Highway 600
• Highway 601
• Highway 602 – from Highway 11 west of Fort Frances to Ont. Hwy 11 at Emo.
• Highway 603
• Highway 604
• Highway 605
• Highway 607
• Highway 607A
• Highway 608 – from Highway 61 to South Gillies.
• Highway 609
• Highway 611
• Highway 612
• Highway 613
• Highway 614 – Highway 17 to Manitouwadge.
• Highway 615
• Highway 616
• Highway 617
• Highway 618 – from Highway 105 to Madsen.
• Highway 619
• Highway 621
• Highway 622
• Highway 623
• Highway 624
• Highway 625
• Highway 626
• Highway 627 – Highway 17 north of Heron Bay to Pic River.
• Highway 628 – Highway 11/17 to Red Rock.
• Highway 630
• Highway 631 – runs from Highway 17 at White River, through Hornepayne, to Highway 11 at Hearst.
• Highway 632
• Highway 633
• Highway 634
• Highway 636
• Highway 637
• Highway 638 – Goes through the mountainous terrain of northern Ontario. It starts (Bruce Mines) and ends (Echo Bay) at Highway 17 (i.e. looping it).
• Highway 639
• Highway 640
• Highway 641
• Highway 642
• Highway 643
• Highway 644
• Highway 645
• Highway 647
• Highway 650
• Highway 651
• Highway 652
• Highway 653 – now County Rd. 653.
• Highway 654
• Highway 655
• Highway 656
• Highway 657
• Highway 658 – Kenora, Ontario. Highway 17 north to Redditt. Formerly Highway 128, then Highway 666. Changed in 1985 after complaints from a Pentecostal Church located on highway.
• Highway 661
• Highway 663
• Highway 664
• Highway 665
• Highway 667
• Highway 668
• Highway 670 – Rock Lake to Dunns Valley.
• Highway 671
• Highway 672
• Highway 673

Tertiary roads

• Highway 801
• Highway 802
• Highway 804
• Highway 805
• Highway 810
• Highway 811

Devolved highways

In 1997 and 1998, many sections of the provincial highway network were downloaded to local municipalities (such as cities, counties or regional municipalities) by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation as a cost-saving measure. While highways were occasionally transferred to local governments in the past, the 1997-1998 downloads represented the most significant changes to Ontario's highway network. Many highways were completely devolved, while of others only short sections remain under provincial jurisdiction (Highway 2, once stretching across Southern Ontario, now is only a few kilometres long). Below is a partial list of partially or wholly devolved highways since 1997.

• Highway 2 – Windsor to the Ontario-Quebec boundary, now Lake Shore Boulevard, Kingston Road, Toronto Road, and Loyalist Road. Its purpose was largely superseded by Highway 401; only a 4.4 kilometre section near Gananoque remains.
• Highway 2A – Scarborough, Ontario. Was once an expressway in the 1940's until highway 401 took over its current route in 1952.
• Highway 3 – between St. Thomas and Leamington.
• Highway 11A – Toronto; Gardiner Expressway/Lake Shore Boulevard to Macdonald-Cartier Freeway (ON-401) now known only as, York Street then University Avenue, Avenue Road, and Oriole Parkway.
• Highway 11B – Cobalt-New Liskeard.
• Highway 14 – Marmora to Highway 62 near Foxboro.
• Highway 19 – From terminus at Port Burwell to Highway 3 in Tillsonburg; From Highway 401 to terminus at Highway 86 near Milverton. The section from Tillsonburg to Highway 401 remains.
• Highway 20 – QEW exit 88 E of Hamilton to QEW/ON-420 interchange, now Confederation Parkway, through Stoney Creek, Rymal Road, and Lundy's Lane.
• Highway 22 – London, Ontario to near Warwick, Ontario, connecting to Sarnia, Ontario and to Arkona by Highway 7; replaced by most of routing of Highway 402
• Highway 24 – 2 km south of Cambridge and northward through Guelph, Orangeville, Shelburne, and Collingwood on Georgian Bay.
• Highway 25 – (Oakville (Bronte, suburban Toronto) to north of Grand Valley) now Bronte Road (south of Steeles Avenue in Milton).
• Highway 27 – Etobicoke, Ontario to Midhurst, Ontario; now referred to as Highway 27 in Toronto and York Regional Road 27 in Vaughan
• Highway 28 – Port Hope to ON-7A, (which had a joint with ON-115 for 13 km to the Parkway exit), up to NE of Lakefield, at ON-134.
• Highway 29 – Brockville to Arnprior
• Highway 30 – Brighton to Havelock
• Highway 31 – Morrisburg to Ottawa
• Highway 32 – Gananoque to Seeley's Bay
• Highway 36 – Lindsay to Highway 28 at Burleigh Falls.
• Highway 38 – Kingston to Highway 7 near Sharbot Lake; now referred to as County Road 38
• Highway 39 – Windsor to south of Belle River.
• Highway 42 – Westport to Forthton.
• Highway 43 – Perth to Alexandria, via Smiths Falls, and Winchester decommissioned in 1998--Perth to Smith Falls was Highway 15 prior to completion of Highway 7 in 1950s.
• Highway 45 – Cobourg to Norwood.
• Highway 46 – from Ontario Hwy 7 to Victoria County Rd. 48 near Bolsover. Now Victoria County Rd. 46.
• Highway 47 – Highway 48 north of Stouffville to highways 7 & 12 south of Greenbank.
• Highway 50 – Toronto section; also referred to as Albion Road to highway 89 west of Alliston.
• Highway 51 – North of Cataract to Caledon.
• Highway 52 – East of Alberton to Highway 8 at Peters Corners.
• Highway 53 – Stoney Creek to Eastwood.
• Highway 56 – Highway 3 west of Canfield to Stoney Creek.
• Highway 68 – became Highway 6 on Manitoulin Island.
• Highway 70 – renamed Highway 6 from Hepworth to Springmount.
• Highway 73 – Port Bruce, Ontario to Dorchester, Ontario
• Highway 74 – New Sarum to Nilestown. Decomissioned in 1997.
• Highway 88 – Highway 27 junction at Bond Head to Highway 11 junction in Bradford. Existed from 1938 to 1988
• Highway 90 – Barrie to Angus and C.F.B. Borden.
• Highway 95 – Wolfe Island
• Highway 96 – Wolfe Island
• Highway 97 – Freelton to Hickson, through Galt/Cambridge.
• Highway 98 – Essex County in the 1950's and 1960's. It was decomissioned, becoming Essex County Road 46, and Kent County (now Chatham-Kent) Road 8. Its western terminus was downtown Windsor, and its eastern terminus was downtown Blenheim, at highways 40 and 3.
• Highway 99 – Governor's Road (original alignment of Dundas Street from Highway 24 North of Brantford to Ancaster
• Highway 100 – MCF (ON-401) at exit 194 to Former ON-2, eastern part of London, now Airport Road.
• Highway 103 – Highway 400 and 12 to Highway 69 junction, first Highway 69, now Highway 400.
• Highway 104 – to Grand Valley from Highway 9, then Highway 25.
• Highway 117 – Highway 11 north of Bracebridge to Dorset.
• Highway 121 – Highway 35 south of Fenelon Falls to Haliburton. Eastward is renamed Highway 118.
• Highway 126 – MCF (ON-401) S of London, Ontario (partially superhighway--Wenige Expressway) to ON-2, some think extended to ON-22 (present Fanshawe Park Road East), now known as Highbury Avenue. (The part between ON-401 and the south Thames River had no name, while a half-mile section from the Thames to Hamilton Road was the Wenige Expwy, and north from there was Highbury Avenue.)
• Highway 131 – Renamed Simcoe County Road 27.
• Highway 134 – Renamed Highway 28.
• Highway 135 – Short highway in London, between Highway 401 and former Highways 2 & 4. Now called Exeter Road.
• Highway 136 – Cataract to Orangeville. Formerly Highway 24.
• Highway 169 – Brechin to Foot's Bay via Gravenhurst, shared space with Highway 11 from Washago to Gravenhurst.
• Highway 517 – Used to run from Boulter to Combermere at Highway 62. Downgraded to County Rd. status in Hastings and Renfrew counties.
• Highway 800 – now Ontario Hwy 527 near Thunder Bay to Armstrong.

Additional Highways and Bypass routes devolved: 2B, 2S, 3B, 4A, 5A, 7B, 8A, 11B, 12B, 13, 15A, 16, 17A, 17B, 24A, 35B, 40B, 48B.

See also

• List of Ontario expressways
• List of Ottawa, Ontario roads
• List of Toronto, Ontario roads
• List of Ontario County Numbered Roads
• List of roads and highways

External links

• Ministry of Transportation Ontario
• Official Ontario road map (from MTO)
• Ontario Provincial Highways
• OntHighways.com
• The History of Ontario's Kings Highways
• The King's Highway Ends site
• Road Signs of Ontario
• Highway Route Markers