Saskatchewan Highway 7

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Alsask

Kindersley

Hwy 30
Hwy 4 at Rosetown
Hwy 45 at Delisle

Hwy 60
East end Hwy 14 in Saskatoon
Location
Country
Kindersley, Rosetown
Highway system
← Hwy 6→ Hwy 8

Saskatchewan Highway 7 is a major paved undivided provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, running from the Alberta border to Saskatoon. Highway 7 continues west into Alberta where it becomes Alberta Highway 9.[2]

Highway 7 is an important trade and travel route linking Saskatoon with several of its

Kindersley. Its primary use, however, is by travelers heading for Calgary, Alberta
and the Canadian west coast.

Despite being one of the most heavily used roads in the province, as of 2020, there is only approximately 36.5 km of the route that is divided highway; 34.5 km from Saskatoon to Delisle,[3] including a recently completed bypass of Vanscoy, and 2 km just east of Rosetown at the Rosetown Airport and Cargill inland terminal. In 2020, the provincial government announced funding to install eight passing lanes east of Kindersley,[4] as well as further plans for an additional six to the west, bringing the total number of passing lanes to 26 along the corridor and helping to improve safety until such a time as twinning the highway is financially feasible and traffic volumes require such. Extensive oil exploration and development has been occurring since 2010, primarily in the Kindersley Region, from Brock to the Alberta Border. Heavy traffic, agriculture, grain transport, and oilfield service, as well as oil and fuel transports, are common on this highway. Agriculture, and oilfield services are the main industries of the area. The only District hospital on Hwy 7 is located at Kindersley.

Agrium Vanscoy Potash Operations is Canada's third largest producer of potash fertilizer. In the 1930s early homesteaders would maintain Highway 7 as a means to supplement their income. Provincial Highway 7 followed the Canadian Northern Railway grade for direction of travel with the actual road way being on the square on the Dominion survey township lines. Highway 7 was widened in 1944 and rebuilt between 1960 and 1961.

Highway 7 currently terminates at its junction with 22nd Street West (

Bethlehem High School, Tommy Douglas Collegiate
and the Shaw Centre located where Highway 7 linked with 22nd Street prior to 2006.

Route description

The entirety of Highway 7 is a primary weight

Kindersley is the largest center featuring both oil and agricultural industries along Highway 7 and with a population of about 4,500 is almost at city status of 5,000 residents.[15] As of 2009, the Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) ranges from approximately 1,600 to 2,000 vehicles per day (vpd) near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border to over 3,000 vpd near Kindersley, updated statistics, and vehicle types in 2013 show evidence that the 2009 vehicle count is out of date and severely understates actual traffic flow.[4]
Due to its being a key route between Calgary, the fast-growing city of Saskatoon, and economic drivers such as regional oil activity, inland grain terminal locations adjacent to Hwy 7, and Saskatchewan's strong economy, this highway's capacity is under pressure.

Continuing east, Highway 7 comes to a short 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) concurrency between

SK 684 (Neault Road); an interchange is planned for this location in the future. This is the new Blairmore Suburban Development Area (SDA)
hosting seven new neighbourhoods and anchoring future growth on Saskatoon's west end.

History

Saskatoon is indicated by the red star

The Old Bone Trail was the name of the red river cart trail between Saskatoon and Rosetown.[19] The Saskatchewan Highway Act was established in 1922, in compliance with the 1919 Canadian highway act. At the initial stages of the Saskatchewan Highway Act, 10 miles (16 km) of provincial highways were gravel and the rest were earth roads. The road allowances were laid out as a part of the Dominion Land survey system for homesteading.[20][21] Travel along the Provincial Highway 7 before the 1940s would have been traveling on the square following the township road allowances, barbed wire fencing and the Canadian Northern rail line. 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.[22][23]

Mr. Ralph Glen Chapman an early 20th century settler in

Pleasant Valley maintained 10 miles (16 km) of Highway 7. Mr. Block of the German Mennonite settlement at Fiske maintained a stretch of Highway 7 as a means of supplementing his income in the 1930s.[24] In 1939, Andy Anderson in the same fashion, kept a 10 miles (16 km) stretch of Highway 7 clear.[25]
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In 1944 the widening of Highway 7 was undertaken. The

C$1.00 per hour and for man with six horses $1.20 per hour In the 1950s the R.M. provided grants to the local snow plough club to keep the highway clear after storms. The 1951 oil strike at Coleville resulted in a Husky service station and bulk plant opening at Flaxcombe on Highway 7 in 1955. It was located on the railroad to facilitate loading crude oil into rail cars. Highway 7 was rebuilt between 1960 and 1961.[25]
Highway 7 currently terminates at its junction with 22nd Street West (
Highway 684 (Dalmeny Road), at which point the new Highway 7 alignment links with this intersection. Long-term plans call for an interchange to be constructed here, and a link to be created from Highway 684 to the Yellowhead Highway in Saskatoon's north side, though it has not yet been announced whether the Highway 7 designation will be applied north of Highway 14.[26]

Major intersections

From west to east:

Rural municipalityLocationkm[1]miDestinationsNotes
Calgary
Continuation into Alberta
Eatonia
​18.711.6 Hwy 317 north – Marengo, Fusilier
Kindersley No. 290
​40.024.9 Hwy 307 north – Smiley
Eatonia
Traffic signals
​74.746.4
Hwy 658 north – Dodsland
West end of Hwy 658 concurrency
Hwy 658
south – Snipe Lake		East end of Hwy 658 concurrency
​92.657.5
Hwy 657 north – Plenty
Prairie West Terminal Road
Hwy 656 north – Herschel
Swift Current
4-way stop-controlled intersection
Hwy 664 south – Sovereign
Hwy 768 north – Herschel
​190.6118.4
Hwy 655 – Perdue, Milden
Hwy 673 north – Asquith
​220.4137.0
Hwy 766 east – Pike Lake Provincial Park
Hwy 762 east – Pike Lake Provincial Park
Corman Park No. 344
​249.7155.2 Hwy 60 south – Pike Lake Provincial Park
Hwy 684 north) – Dalmeny
West end of Hwy 14 concurrency; follows 22nd Street W
258.0160.3
Saskatoon International Airport
261.4162.4 Idylwyld Drive to Hwy 11 / Hwy 16 (TCH)
22nd Street E		Former Hwy 7 / Hwy 14 eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
  •       Closed/former
  •       Concurrency terminus
  •       Route transition

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