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unusual facts about Highway 5



Alberta Highway 6

Generally travelling in a north direction from Chief Mountain, the highway provides access to the Hamlet of Waterton Park via Highway 5, and passes through the Hamlet of Twin Butte and the Town of Pincher Creek.

Arbor Creek, Saskatoon

It is bounded by McOrmond Drive to the east, Highway 5 and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks to the south, Berini Drive to the west, and Kerr Road to the north.

CFJC-TV

CFJC's studios are located on Pemberton Terrace and Columbia Street West in Kamloops, and its transmitter is located near Southern Yellowhead Highway/Highway 5, southeast of Kamloops Airport.

Decaturville crater

The effect that this impact had on the surrounding bedrock can be seen in a roadcut that runs along Highway 5 about 16 miles north of Lebanon.

Minnesota State Highway 175

The Highway 175 / Highway 5 bridge crossing the Red River at the state line was not completed until the late 1960s.

Willowgrove, Saskatoon

It is bounded by McOrmond Drive to the west, Highway 5 to the south, an arbitrary boundary to the north and Holmwood SDA, Saskatoon (annexed from R.M. of Corman Park) to the east.


see also

Bussa Emancipation Statue

The statue is located at centre of the J.T.C. Ramsay roundabout formed at the junction of the ABC Highway and Highway 5.

Cedar Avenue

The old alignment is known as Old Cedar Avenue, and is no longer continuous; it is interrupted at Highway 5/494, 66th Street, and Minnesota State Highway 62.

Colorado State Highway 5

Because of its mountainous route, State Highway 5 is closed seasonally when snow clearance becomes excessively difficult, usually from Labor Day to Memorial Day.

Saskatchewan Highway 5

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).