Saskatchewan Highway 5
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure & Transport Canada | ||||
Length | 380.2 km[1] (236.2 mi) | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | Hwy 11 / Hwy 16 (TCH) in Saskatoon | |||
Hwy 2 near Meacham Hwy 6 at Watson Hwy 35 at Wadena Hwy 38 near Kuroki Hwy 47 at Buchanan Kamsack | ||||
East end | PR 363 at Manitoba border near Togo | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Cote | |||
Major cities | Saskatoon, Humboldt | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Highway 5 is a major
In the summer of 1970, the section of highway between Lloydminster and Saskatoon was designated to be a portion of the Yellowhead Highway. This section of highway maintained the Highway 5 designation until 1976, when it was redesignated as Highway 16 to maintain the same number through the four western provinces (Manitoba followed suit the following year, redesignating its section of the Yellowhead Highway from PTH 4 to PTH 16). This redesignation shortened the length of Highway 5 to its current length of 393 kilometres (244 mi).
Along the route are several heritage sites, an international bird watching area, saline lakes, as well as regional and provincial parks. Museums and historical markers commemorate the region's history along the highway.
Route description
Highway 5 begins near downtown Saskatoon at Idylwyld Drive North (
According to the Atlas of Saskatchewan, the elevation around Saskatoon is between 500 and 600 metres (1,600 and 2,000 ft).[10] Leaving Saskatoon, travel is through a moist mixed grassland ecoregion. Small Aspen groves surround sloughs which intersperse the glacial till landscape.[10] The highway is paved between Saskatoon and Kamsack. Just outside the city limits, Highway 5 connects with Highway 41 at the site of a small commercial area that, as of 2007, included the Sundown Drive-In, one of Canada's last operational drive-in movie theatres.[11] The remainder of the highway to the Manitoba border is an undivided highway.[1] The communities of Strawberry Hills, Discovery Ridge and Settler's Ridge are just off km 18 on Highway 5. At km 21, Highway 5 intersects Highway 316.
Patience Lake is located at km 24.3 and the Patience Lake potash mine is visible from Highway 5. "Patience Lake is a shallow, permanent, hypersaline lake east of Saskatoon in an area of extensive potash extraction.[12] " The Patience Lake underground potash mine opened in 1975 was thereafter closed in 1987 due to extensive flooding. A new solution mine was reopened in 1988.[13]
At km 41, it intersects
The town of
The city of Humboldt is at km 115. Highway 5 also connects with Highway 20 in Humboldt. A new Humboldt tourist booth was opened in 1971 on the highway edge. Humboldt has many large murals depicting its German Catholic history located on building walls throughout the city. The Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery is located in a 1912 post office and customs office with its landmark tower clock which has been declared a national historic site.
The Carlton Trail Regional Economic Development Authority (REDA) coordinates and instigates economy in an area of rural municipalities (RM) and towns in central Saskatchewan around Humboldt. The main industries of this area are agricultural, manufacturing, processing concerns as well as potash mining. A more recent industry to the area is tourism.[14]
Situated 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Humboldt along Saskatchewan Highway 5 and two miles (3 km) south is the Kloppenburg Wildlife Refuge. North of the city is the Humboldt 18 hole grass green golf course on Highway 5.[15] Original works by the painter, Count Berthold Von Imhoff, can be seen at churches located in Muenster and Humboldt.[16] The establishment of St. Peter’s Colony and Abbacy, Muenster, Saskatchewan has been designated as a Canadian National Historic Event on June 8, 2007, by the Minister of the Environment.[17]
After Humboldt, Highway 5 passes through the town of Muenster at km 123 and intersects with Highway 368 at km 125.
Highway 5 then passes through
The highway continues east meeting with
Highway 5's next minor intersections are at
Rama was incorporated as a village in 1919 by John Berge. It is located on the edge of Spirit Creek, a tributary of Good Spirit Lake. Rama is home to St. Michaels church, a provincial historical site. Also at home in Rama is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Anthony's Church. A religious pilgrimage is held at the grotto each year on August 14 and 15, persons of all faith are always welcome and all are free to have a self-guided tour of the grotto and attend the annual pilgrimage.
Olysky (Big Sky Farms) runs large factory hog production facilities in the area.
The highway then leaves Rama and continues on through
The next few intersections on Highway 5 are at
To the north of Highway 5, and east of Kamsack is the Duck Mountain Provincial Park. This height of land location features Madge Lake, camping, fishing, and horse stables. The highest elevation is near the Manitoba border near Duck Mountain. Highway 5 travels south of Duck Mountain which has an elevation of between 700 and 800 metres (2,300 and 2,600 ft).
The highway is paved for its entire length. The section from Highway 57 through Togo and onwards to the Manitoba border is a very narrow and lightly used two lane highway with little to no shoulder on either side.[35] The speed limit is 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) between Saskatoon and Highway 57, and 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) between Highway 57 and the Manitoba border.
History
The early Red River cart trail traversed the North West Territory prairies between
Both Red River Cart trail and telegraph line were abandoned in the 1920s.[38]
In 1925, access from Saskatoon to Provincial Highway 5 was via Provincial Highway 12 which was a route due north of the city. The other connection was Provincial Highway 27 which traveled east and north from Saskatoon connecting to Provincial Highway 5 at the junction located at the town of Aberdeen. In the late 1950s and 1960s, the highway was straightened and widened. During this process, the current Saskatchewan Highway 5 connected Humboldt and Saskatoon in a more direct west and east highway. The old place names of Warman, Aberdeen, Vonda, Prudhomme, Dana, Bruno, and Carmel located on Provincial Highway 5 were no longer place names along Saskatchewan Highway 5. Now the Highway 2 concurrency was the only north–south stretch between Humboldt and Saskatoon and Meacham the only place name. On August 15, 1970, the Yellowhead was opened for the northern Trans-Canada route and the northwestern half of Provincial Highway 5 between Saskatoon and Lloydminster was designated as Saskatchewan Highway 16, the Yellowhead route.
Travel along the Provincial Highway 5 before the 1940s would have been traveling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and rail lines. As the surveyed township roads were the easiest to travel, the first highway was designed on 90-degree, right-angle corners as the distance traversed the prairie along range roads and township roads.[40] 1926 Saskatchewan map
Highway 5 was constructed through Englefeld in 1961.[41]: [14] John Koenig was one of the first residents of Englefeld to own a car, a Ford touring car purchased in the 1920s.[41]: [229]
Upgrades
Canadian Pacific Railway crossing lights were installed on Highway 5 at the east end of Humboldt. At the junction of Highway 20 and Highway 5, there were traffic lights installed in 1973.[42] West Humboldt properties announced in the fall of 2008 that The Quill Centre will be opened in the fall of 2009 along Highway 5.[43]
Jan 3, 1910, was the first meeting of the RM of Blucher 343. In 1911, early homesteaders could choose to pay taxes at $9.00 per quarter section of land or working off $4.00 of this expense by constructing roads. A labourer and two horse team could earn 50 cents an hour and a four-horse team with a driver was allotted 70 cents an hour.[44]
A resurfacing improvement project was undertaken for an 11.7 kilometres (7.3 mi) stretch between Mikado and Canora. The $1 million project was completed in the summer of 2001. In the summer of 2000, 13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi) received resurfacing improvements between Verigin and Mikado.[45] In February 2003, the Department of Highways awarded a tender to resurface 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Quill Lake and eastward. "We are maintaining our focus on building better highways. Work on this $940,000 resurfacing project ... should be complete within two weeks", said Highways and Transportation Minister Mark Wartman.[46]
Major intersections
From west to east:[47]
Rural municipality | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
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Saskatoon | −4.4 | −2.7 | Idylwyld Drive to Hwy 11 / Hwy 16 (TCH) | Intersection of 25th Street E and Idylwyld Drive N; former Hwy 5 western terminus; to Hwy 7 / Hwy 14 | ||||
−3.8 | −2.4 | 2nd Avenue N | ||||||
−3.1 | −1.9 | Spadina Crescent | Interchange | |||||
−2.9 | −1.8 | University Bridge across South Saskatchewan River | ||||||
−2.6 | −1.6 | Clarence Avenue, College Drive | Y-intersection, traffic signals; former Hwy 5 follows College Drive | |||||
−1.0 | −0.62 | Preston Avenue | Traffic signals | |||||
0.0 | 0.0 | Yorkton, Prince Albert, The Battlefords | Hwy 5 western terminus;[48][49] interchange, traffic signals | |||||
0.6 | 0.37 | Central Avenue | Seagull intersection, traffic signals | |||||
1.6 | 0.99 | McKercher Drive | Interchange | |||||
4.2 | 2.6 | McOrmond Drive | Interchange | |||||
6.2 | 3.9 | Hwy 41 east – Melfort | East end of College Drive | |||||
Corman Park No. 344 |
No major junctions | |||||||
Blucher No. 343[c] | | 15.9 | 9.9 | Hwy 316 south – Clavet | ||||
Moose Jaw | West end of Hwy 2 concurrency | |||||||
Bayne No. 371 | | 63.8 | 39.6 | Hwy 2 north – Prince Albert | East end of Hwy 2 concurrency | |||
80.2 | 49.8 | |||||||
Humboldt No. 370 | | 91.5 | 56.9 | Carmel access road | ||||
99.6 | 61.9 | Hwy 669 north | ||||||
City of Humboldt | 106.9 | 66.4 | Peck Road | Traffic signals; becomes Glenn Hall Drive (8th Avenue) in Humboldt | ||||
108.5 | 67.4 | Birch Hills, Lanigan | ||||||
Humboldt No. 370 | | 113.4 | 70.5 | Hwy 667 north | West end of Hwy 667 concurrency | |||
St. Brieux | ||||||||
Hwy 667 south – Esk | East end of Hwy 667 concurrency | |||||||
Englefeld | 141.2 | 87.7 | Main Street | |||||
Lakeside No. 338 | Watson | 150.3 | 93.4 | Hwy 6 north – Melfort | West end of Hwy 5 concurrency | |||
150.5 | 93.5 | Hwy 6 south – Regina | East end of Hwy 2 concurrency | |||||
Punnichy | ||||||||
Lakeview No. 337 | Clair | 183.8 | 114.2 | |||||
Fort Qu'Appelle | ||||||||
206.3 | 128.2 | Hwy 755 east (Lone Tree Road) | ||||||
Hwy 665 north | ||||||||
Kuroki | 227.0 | 141.1 | Hwy 38 north – Kelvington | |||||
| 228.7 | 142.1 | Foam Lake | |||||
Margo | 239.7 | 148.9 | ||||||
Sheho | ||||||||
Hwy 754 north – Hazel Dell | ||||||||
Preeceville, Springside, Melville | ||||||||
282.7 | 175.7 | Hwy 754 east | ||||||
Hwy 664 north – Sturgis | ||||||||
Hwy 651 west – Theodore | ||||||||
Preeceville, Hudson Bay | West end of Hwy 9 concurrency | |||||||
308.1 | 191.4 | Yorkton | East end of Hwy 9 concurrency | |||||
Hwy 650 south | West end of Hwy 650 concurrency | |||||||
Hwy 650 north – Hyas | East end of Hwy 650 concurrency | |||||||
Kamsack | 345.6 | 214.7 | Hwy 8 (Saulteaux Avenue) – Pelly, Norquay, Langenburg, Esterhazy | |||||
| 353.5 | 219.7 | Hwy 57 east – Madge Lake | |||||
378.5 | 235.2 | Hwy 369 south – Hwy 10 | ||||||
Togo | 379.0 | 235.5 | Hwy 357 west – Hwy 8 | |||||
| 380.2 | 236.2 | PR 363 east to PTH 83 | Continuation into Manitoba | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Notes
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