Yellowhead Highway
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The Yellowhead Highway, part of the Trans-Canada Highway, is in western Canada (the Prairies and British Columbia). It is not the Trans-Canada mainline (which originates in Victoria in the west) but an alternate, northern route through Edmonton with Prince Rupert as its western mainland endpoint, though it continues onto Haida Gwaii via ferry to Skidegate on Graham Island, and ultimately ends in Masset.
UnderstandThe 2660 km Yellowhead Highway is one of multiple highways which compose the Trans-Canada Highway system; in all four western provinces (BC, AB, SK, MB) it is numbered as provincial Highway 16, with the exception of the…
PrepareThis is a northern route which leads through isolated communities and through the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia.
Get inWhile the majority of this route may be taken from either endpoint and incorporated as part of a longer Trans-Canada trip, the westernmost 830 km is very difficult to get to by car without taking the Yellowhead Highway…
GoWinnipeg, Manitoba is the eastern terminus of the Yellowhead Highway and the provincial capital, beginning at historic Portage and Main in the city's downtown.
Stay safeCellular telephone coverage in the mountains is sporadic, with countless dead spots in each valley.
Go nextTake the Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway mainline) from Vancouver, through Calgary and Winnipeg, to Ontario.
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- Photo: Talhamujahid on English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons