Fort Road, Edmonton

Fort Road is a discontinuous street in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Historically it was a major route in connecting Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan. It was formed on the west side of the Canadian National Railway line that formerly connected the two cities, and crossed the North Saskatchewan River just south of the current Highway 15 bridge. As the city of Edmonton expanded its grid street system, and realigned the highway to Manning Drive, portions of Fort Road ceased to exist.

Fort Road
Old Fort Road
Start/end points of Fort Road
Former name(s)Fort Trail
Maintained bythe City of Edmonton
Length18.0 km (11.2 mi)[1]
LocationEdmonton
South end112 Avenue / Stadium Road, Edmonton
Major
junctions		82 Street, 118 Avenue, Wayne Gretzky Drive, Yellowhead Trail, 66 Street, 137 Avenue, Manning Drive
North endHwy 15 / Hwy 28A

At the intersection of Fort Road and 66th street stands the Transit Hotel, which opened in 1908.[2] This is in the Village of North Edmonton, annexed by the City of Edmonton in 1912.

Fort Road is divided into three major sections:

  • the southern section between 112 Avenue northeast to Wayne Gretzky Drive is a collector road through established residential neighbourhoods;
  • the central section between Wayne Gretzky Drive, Yellowhead Trail and 137 Avenue is a 4-6 lane arterial road, where it is the northern continuation of Wayne Gretzky Drive and is a continuation of Manning Drive, which ends at Yellowhead Highway at 50th Street; and
  • the northern section north of 153 Avenue is a rural road segmented by Anthony Henday Drive, finally terminating at 227 Avenue, near Manning Drive. (Manning Drive at this point continues to the northeast on the line of the old Fort Road.)

Nearby Victoria Trail is built on a different trail that also was part of the Carlton Trail network. Where Victoria Trail ends, at 153 Avenue, Fort Road is nearby.

Another portion of the historic Fort Trail exists in Sturgeon County. Old Fort Trail comes off Manning Drive not far from where Fort Road terminated at 227 Avenue. It runs to the former crossing of the North Saskatchewan River into Fort Saskatchewan. The 1905 bridge was replaced for car traffic by a new bridge built in 1957 and then finally dismantled in the late 1980s. The bridge's piers still stand in the river, near the end of Old Fort Trail.

Major intersections

This is a list of major intersecting streets, starting at the south end of Fort Road.[3] The entire route is in Edmonton.

km[1]miDestinationsNotes
0.0–
0.6		0.0–
0.37		86 StreetDiscontiguous residential street with one-way sections (traffic calming)
82 Street
Gap in route
0.80.5080 Street
118 Avenue		Resumes as 80 Street; 80 Street continues south
1.00.62119 AvenueRoadway turns northeast; becomes Fort Road
2.11.3Wayne Gretzky Drive / 124 AvenueSouth end of Wayne Gretzky Drive concurrency
2.31.4 Yellowhead Trail (Hwy 16)Single-point urban interchange, Hwy 16 exit 392; north end of Wayne Gretzky Drive concurrency
3.11.966 Street
127 AvenueSouthbound right-in/right-out
3.62.2 129 AvenueAccess to Belvedere station
5.23.2137 AvenueSplit intersection (traffic signals); continues as Manning Drive to Hwy 15
Gap in route
8.0–
17.8		5.0–
11.1		153 AvenueDiscontiguous rural road
Hwy 15 (Manning Drive) / Hwy 28A north (17 Street NE)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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References
  1. Google (29 November 2018). "Fort Road in Edmonton, AB" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  2. "Transit Hotel Turns 100". Edmonton Journal. 2008-09-11. Retrieved 2010-06-25.
  3. "City of Edmonton - Maps". maps.edmonton.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-12.


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