page_title: Crowsnest Highway
section_title: British Columbia
hierarchical_section_title: Crowsnest Highway / Route description / British Columbia
caption_attribution_description: A photo of the summit sign at Allison Pass in Manning Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. Can be found on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/doviende/32202446/in/set-708885/
context_page_description: The Crowsnest Highway is an east-west highway in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. It stretches 1,161 km across the southern portions of both provinces, from Hope, British Columbia to Medicine Hat, Alberta, providing the shortest highway connection between the Lower Mainland and southeast Alberta through the Canadian Rockies. The mostly two-lane highway was officially designated in 1932, mainly following a mid-19th-century gold rush trail originally traced out by an engineer named Edgar Dewdney. It takes its name from the Crowsnest Pass, the location at which the highway crosses the Continental Divide between British Columbia and Alberta.
  In British Columbia, the highway is entirely in mountainous regions and is also known as the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. The first segment between the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 5A is locally known as the Hope-Princeton Highway, and passes by the site of the Hope Slide. In Alberta, the terrain is initially mountainous, before smoothing to foothills and eventually generally flat prairie in the vicinity of Pincher Creek.
context_section_description: The Crowsnest Highway's western terminus is at Hope, where it branches off from the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1).  The highway goes east for 7 km (4 mi) to its junction with the Coquihalla Highway (Highway 5), where it exits the freeway and continues for 127 km (79 mi) on a segment known as the Hope-Princeton Highway, passing the Hope Slide en route to Allison Pass, Manning Provincial Park, and Sunday Summit; at Princeton, the Crowsnest Highway meets Highway 5A. East of Princeton, the Crowsnest Highway goes southeast for 67 km (42 mi) to Keremeos, where it meets Highway 3A, leading towards Penticton and Highway 97.  Another 46 km (29 mi) southeast, and the Crowsnest Highway reaches Osoyoos and a junction with Highway 97.
  Approximately 52 km (32 mi) east of Osoyoos, the Crowsnest Highway reaches its junction with Highway 33 at Rock Creek, then the highway heads east for 70 km (43 mi) to its junction with Highway 41, just before passing through Grand Forks.  Another 26 km (16 mi) east, the Crowsnest Highway meets Highway 395 at the southern end of Christina Lake. The Crowsnest Highway travels for 47 km (29 mi) through Bonanza Pass to its junction with Highway 3B at Nancy Greene Lake, which is the cutoff to Rossland and Trail.  It is another 26 km (16 mi) east to Castlegar, where the Crowsnest Highway intersects Highway 22 and Highway 3A, leading towards Nelson.  Approximately 26 km (16 mi) east of Castlegar, the Crowsnest Highway reaches its eastern junction with Highway 3B; another 11 km (6.8 mi) to the east it converges with Highway 6 at Salmo and the two highways share a concurrency for 14 km (9 mi) to Burnt Flat.
  The Crowsnest Highway continues through the Kootenay Pass on a stretch known as the Kootenay Skyway, or Salmo-Creston Skyway.  67 km (42 mi) east of Burnt Flat, the Crowsnest Highway reaches Creston, just past junctions with Highway 21 and Highway 3A.  40 km (25 mi) later, south of Yahk, Highway 95 merges onto the Crowsnest Highway.  The two highways share a common alignment for 72 km (45 mi) northeast to Cranbrook and the junction with Highway 95A. Another 6 km (4 mi) east, Highway 95 diverges north while Highway 93 merges onto the Crowsnest Highway from a shared alignment.  Highway 93 and the Crowsnest share a common alignment for the next 53 km (33 mi) southeast to Elko, where Highway 93 diverges south. 31 km (19 mi) northeast of Elko, the Crowsnest Highway reaches Fernie, then it goes north another 30 km (19 mi) to its junction with Highway 43 at Sparwood, and another 19 km (12 mi) east, the highway reaches the boundary with Alberta at Crowsnest Pass.
caption: The peak of Allison Pass.
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