List of British Columbia provincial highways

This article lists all existing numbered highways in British Columbia, Canada.

Major routes

East-west

• The Trans Canada Highway (Highway 1), which runs from Victoria to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, and then from Horseshoe Bay, through the Vancouver area, Abbotsford, Hope, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke to Kicking Horse Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is the major east-west route in the province, and varies from eight-lane freeway to two-lane highway.
• The Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3), which runs from Hope, then through Osoyoos, Trail, Cranbrook ,right to Crowsnest Pass on the BC/Alberta border. This is a southern alternate route to the Trans Canada, and runs very close to the American border.
• The Yellowhead Highway (Highway 16), which starts on the Queen Charlotte Islands; after a ferry ride to the mainland, it runs from Prince Rupert through Smithers and Prince George, and then meets the Alberta border at Yellowhead Pass.
• The Lougheed Highway (Highway 7), is a major alternate route that runs from Vancouver to Hope, through the lower Fraser Valley.
• The Okanagan Connector (Highway 97C), is a short but major route that connects the Okanagan Valley to the Coquihalla Highway (Hwy 5) at Merritt. 97C branches off Highway 97 at Peachland, about midway between Penticton and Kelowna.

North-south

• The Island Highway (Highway 19), which is an extension of Highway 1 on Vancouver Island; it runs from Nanaimo and provides access to all points northbound on Vancouver Island, including Parksville, Courtenay, Comox, and Port Hardy.
• The Patricia Bay Highway (Highway 17), which starts in Victoria and heads northbound as a freeway through Saanich to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal; after a crossing to Tsawwassen, it continues as an expressway to Highway 99. This route is the main land route between the major cities of Vancouver and Victoria.
• Highway 99 starts as an extension of Interstate 5 at the US border in Surrey as a freeway, known as the Vancouver-Blaine Freeway, until entering the city of Vancouver, where it becomes coterminous with various major city thoroughfares, notably Granville Street and Georgia Street. After crossing the Lions Gate Bridge, the highway - now known as the Sea-to-Sky Highway, is a two-to-four lane route that accesses Squamish and Whistler, before veering east and meeting with Highway 97 north of Cache Creek.
• The Coquihalla Highway/Yellowhead Highway South (Highway 5), which is a freeway that bypasses the slower Fraser Canyon portion of the Trans Canada Highway, connecting the cities of Hope, Merritt, and Kamloops. The segment between Hope and Merritt was a toll highway until 2008. North of Kamloops, the route is only known as the Yellowhead Highway south, and meets up with the main route of the Yellowhead Highway near the Alberta border.
• Highway 97, the longest highway in the province. The highway starts at the American border near Osoyoos. The highway, here known as the Okanagan Highway, passes through the major Okanagan Valley cities of Penticton, Kelowna, and Vernon, before ending in Kamloops. From Kamloops, it is known as the Cariboo Highway, and passes through Cache Creek, Williams Lake, Quesnel, and ends in Prince George. North from there, it is known as the John Hart Highway, and ends in Dawson Creek. From there, the highway then is known as the famed Alaska Highway, and travels northwest through the province until it reaches the Yukon border.

Route list

As of March 2006, according to the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, the complete list of highways in the province are:

• Highway 1, Trans-Canada Highway
• Highway 1A, Taylor Way, Marine Drive, Lions Gate Bridge Road and Fraser Highway on the mainland; Chemainus Road, Goldstream Road, Old Island Highway, Gorge Road, and Douglas Street on Vancouver Island
• Highway 2, Tupper Highway
• Highway 3, Crowsnest Highway, Southern Transprovincial
• Highway 3A, Kaleden Highway (Keremeos-Penticton) and Castlegar-Creston Highway
• Highway 3B, Nancy Greene Lake-Rossland-Meadows Highway
• Highway 4, Pacific Rim Highway
• Highway 4A, Old Alberni Highway
• Highway 5, Coquihalla Highway and Southern Yellowhead Highways
• Highway 5A, Princeton-Kamloops Highway via Aspen Grove. Originally Hwy 5 until the building of the Coquihalla
• Highway 6, Nelson-Nelway Highway and Monashee Highway
• Highway 7, Lougheed Highway
• Highway 7A, Barnet Highway (includes St. John's Street in downtown Port Moody and all of Hastings Street to Granville Street in downtown Vancouver); "the Barnet" refers to the stretch from Port Moody to where Hastings begins in North Burnaby.
• Highway 7B, Mary Hill Bypass
• Highway 8, Nicola Highway
• Highway 9, Agassiz-Rosedale Highway
• Highway 10, Ladner Trunk Road in Delta, 56th Ave in Surrey, known as "No. 10" throughout.
• Highway 11, Abbotsford-Mission Highway (from the Sumas-Huntington border crossing to the jct with Hwy 7 at the north off-ramps from the Mission Bridge)
• Highway 12, Lillooet-Lytton Highway (formerly 12A until the extension of Hwy 99 from Pemberton; the Lillooet-Cache Creek section of Hwy 99 was formerly Hwy 12B)
• Highway 13, Aldergrove-Bellingham Highway
• Highway 14, Sooke Road (to Sooke, Jordan River, and Port Renfrew)
• Highway 15, Pacific Highway - 176th St in Surrey (border crossing at the south end of this route is known as "the Truck Crossing" or "the Pacific Crossing")
• Highway 16, Yellowhead Highway
• Highway 17, Patricia Bay and Tsawwassen Highways
• Highway 18, Cowichan Valley Highway
• Highway 19, Island Highway
• Highway 19A, Oceanside Route (the old Island Highway)
• Highway 20, Chilcotin Highway
• Highway 21, Creston-Rykerts Highway
• Highway 22, Paterson-Rossland-Castlegar Highway
• Highway 22A, Waneta Highway
• Highway 23, Nakusp-Mica Creek Highway
• Highway 24, Little Fort Highway, also Interlakes Highway (see Interlakes)
• Highway 26, Barkerville Highway
• Highway 27, Stuart Lake Highway
• Highway 28, Gold River Highway
• Highway 29, Hudson's Hope Highway
• Highway 30, Port Alice Highway
• Highway 31, Selkirk Highway
• Highway 31A, Kaslo-New Denver Highway
• Highway 33, Rock Creek-Kelowna Highway
• Highway 35, North Francois Highway
• Highway 37, Cassiar Highway (aka Stewart-Cassiar Highway or just "the Stewart-Cassiar"); extends through to join Alaska Highway near Watson Lake, Yukon
• Highway 37A, Stewart Highway
• Highway 39, Mackenzie Highway
• Highway 41, Danville Highway
• Highway 43, Elk Valley Highway
• Highway 49, Dawson Creek-Spirit River Highway
• Highway 52, Heritage Highway
• Highway 77, Liard Highway
• Highway 91, Annacis Highway and Richmond Freeway aka Richmond Connector
• Highway 91A, Queensborough Connector
• Highway 93, Kootenay Highway, counterpart of US 93
• Highway 95, Columbia Highway, counterpart of US 95
• Highway 95A, Kimberley Highway
• Highway 97, Okanagan, Cariboo, John Hart, and Alaska Highways, counterpart of US 97
• Highway 97A, Vernon-Sicamous Highway
• Highway 97B, Grindrod-Salmon Arm Highway
• Highway 97C, Okanagan Connector (freeway)
• Highway 97D, Meadow Creek Road
• Highway 99, Vancouver-Blaine Highway, Oak Street, Southwest Marine Drive, 70th Avenue, Granville Street, Seymour Street, Howe Street, Georgia Street, Marine Drive, Taylor Way, Upper Levels Highway, Sea to Sky Highway, and Duffey Lake Road, counterpart of US 99 (Interstate 5)
• Highway 99A, King George Highway
• Highway 101, Sunshine Coast Highway, indirect counterpart of U.S. Route 101
• Highway 113, Nisga'a Highway
• Highway 118, Central Babine Lake
• Highway 395, Christina Lake-Laurier Highway, counterpart of US 395

The following routes are maintained by the Ministry of Transportation as part of British Columbia's highway system, but they are currently un-numbered:

• Atlin Highway
• Bridge River Road (informally known as Highway 40)
• Cecil Lake Road (informally known as Highway 103)
• Coalmont Road
• Glover Road (Langley City to Fort Langley)
• Head Bay Road
• Hemlock Valley Road
• Horsefly Road
• Jesmond Road
• Knight Street - Freeway section
• Likely Road
• Mission Mountain Road (often just "Mission Mountain")
• Mount Washington Road (also known as "Strathcona Parkway")
• Nazko Road (informally known as Highway 59)
• Pavilion Mountain Road (often just "Pavilion Mountain")
• Port Mellon Highway
• Queen Charlotte City - Skidegate Road
• Telegraph Creek Road (informally known as Highway 51)
• Westside Road (in Whistler the old road pre-Hwy 99 along the west side of Alta Lake; in the Fraser Canyon the not-highway road up the west side of the Fraser River from Lytton to Lillooet)

Yukon highways in British Columbia

Highways 2 (Klondike Highway) and 3 (Haines Highway) in the northwest corner of the province are part of the Yukon territorial highway system and are not listed here or designated as BC highways.

Although some editions of The Milepost identify the B.C. portion of the Haines Highway as Highway 4, this is not an official highway number for the route.

Also, although the Alaska Highway crosses the border with the Yukon nine times (including six crossings between historic miles 588 and 596, the highway route number changes just once, between Lower Post, B.C., and Watson Lake, Yukon. The Yukon section east of here is maintained by Public Works Canada as part of the B.C. portion of Highway 97, while the B.C. section west of here is maintained by the Yukon Government as part of Yukon Highway 1.

Defunct route numbers

The first two freeways built in British Columbia were given 400-series numbers, much like the 400-Series Highways in Ontario. Highways 401 and 499 were renumbered 1 and 99 respectively in 1973. The section of Highway 37 between Terrace and Kitimat was known as Highway 25 until 1986. In recent years, many routes have been devolved to regional and/or municipal authorities and have lost their official highway status, notably the Fraser Highway in the Lower Mainland (formerly part of Highway 1A) and West Saanich Road on Vancouver Island (formerly Highway 17A). Some roads have informal highway numbers (e.g. 40, 51, 59) used by locals and are referred to by these numbers on provincial highway condition listings but are not signed as highways or listed as provincial highways on the Ministry of Transportation website.

External links

• Official Numbered Routes in British Columbia (British Columbia Ministry of Transportation)
• Map of numbered highways in British Columbia
• British Columbia Highway Cams
• Drive BC
• British Columbia Highways Website