page_title: Ontario Highway 10
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Ontario Highway 10 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the highways that run through Caledon, Ontario. This was taken at around 13:00 EST, on the eastbound/southbound route.
context_page_description: King's Highway 10, commonly referred to as Highway 10 is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway connects the northern end of Highway 410 just north of Brampton with Owen Sound on the southern shores of Georgian Bay, passing through the towns of Orangeville and Shelburne as well as several smaller villages along the way. It historically followed the Toronto–Sydenham Road, part of which later became Hurontario Street, as well as Prince of Wales Road.
  The highway was established in 1920 as one of the original provincial highways. It was extended south by 1937 to Highway 2 in Port Credit. That same year, it became the site of the first highway interchange in Canada at its intersection with The Middle Road. Since the late 1990s, the southern portion has been truncated to its current terminus north of the Brampton–Caledon border.
context_section_description: Highway 10 follows a route originally carved through the virgin forests of Upper Canada in 1848. Its route has remained largely unchanged since that time, and the highway still divides many of the towns it serves, with the exception of Orangeville, which it has been routed around. It acts as the meridian for the Regional Municipality of Peel;   parallel sidelines are divided into East and West in several cases by the highway.
  Beginning at its southern end in Caledon, Highway 10, following the Hurontario Street alignment, passes to the west of Valleywood, a suburban community on the fringe of the Greater Toronto Area. The highway presses northwest and rises gently over the Niagara Escarpment, a World Biosphere Reserve. Immediately to the west are the Forks of the Credit, a deep glacial ravine and provincial park regarded for its scenery. The highway passes between several large quarries and enters Caledon Village. Continuing, it reaches Orangeville at Highway 9. The highway passes to the east of Orangeville on a bypass, switching between the Hurontario St. and Prince of Wales Rd. alignments, avoiding the business district. At the north end of the bypass, the highway curves and proceeds directly north towards the village of Primrose at Highway 89.
  Highway 10 turns west, becoming concurrent with Highway 89 for a short distance, into the town of Shelburne. The concurrency ends in the centre of Shelburne, as Highway 10 splits and turns north and then resumes its northwesterly course. From Shelburne to Owen Sound, the road follows the northernmost part of the former Toronto–Sydenham Road, a colonization road that predates the division of the land in this area. As such, the road follows a diagonal path to the survey grid. It briefly merges with Ontario Highway 6 in Owen Sound before it ends, while Highway 6 goes on to Tobermory.
caption: Highway 10 through Caledon
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