.svg)  Highway 2 | ||||
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| Veterans Memorial Highway (segment) CanAm Highway (segment) | ||||
 Highway 2 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure | ||||
| Length | 797.7 km[1] (495.7 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  Canada-US border (MT 24) at West Poplar | |||
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| North end |  Highway 102 in La Ronge | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Saskatchewan | |||
| Rural municipalities | Old Post, Poplar Valley, Willow Bunch, Stonehenge, Lake of the Rivers, Sutton, Lake Johnston, Terrell, Baildon, Moose Jaw, Marquis, Dufferin, Sarnia, Big Arm, Wood Creek, Morris, Colonsay, Bayne, Hoodoo, Fish Creek, St. Louis, Prince Albert, Buckland, Paddockwood, Lakeland | |||
| Major cities | Moose Jaw, Prince Albert | |||
| Towns | Assiniboia, Watrous, Wakaw, La Ronge | |||
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Highway 2 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the longest highway in Saskatchewan at 809 km (503 mi). The highway has a few divided sections but is mostly undivided.[2] However, only about 18 kilometres (11 mi) near Moose Jaw, 11 kilometres (7 mi) near Chamberlain, and 21 kilometres (13 mi) near Prince Albert are divided highway. Highway 2 is a major north-south route beginning at the Canada–US border at the Port of West Poplar River and Opheim, Montana customs checkpoints. Montana Highway 24 continues south. It passes through the major cities of Moose Jaw in the south and Prince Albert in the north. Highway 2 overlaps Highway 11 between the towns of Chamberlain and Findlater. This 11 kilometres (7 mi) section of road is a wrong-way concurrency. The highway ends at La Ronge, where it becomes Highway 102.
The highway started as a graded road in the 1920s which followed the grid lines of the early survey system and was maintained by early homesteaders of each rural municipality. Paving projects of the 1950s created all weather roads. Technological advances have paved the way for cost-effective methods of improvements to highway surfaces to meet the wear and tear of increased tourist and commercial highway traffic. The stretch of Highway 2 from Moose Jaw to Prince Albert was designated in 2005 as Veterans Memorial Highway. The designation coincided with Veterans Week 2005.[3] The CanAm Highway[4] comprises Saskatchewan Highways 35, 39, 6, 3, and 2.[5]
- ^ "Highway 2 in Saskatchewan" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ "TYPE ADMN_CLASS TOLL_RD RTE_NUM1 RTE_NUM2 ROUTE 1 Gravel ..." Government of Canada. Retrieved 17 February 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Government of Saskatchewan. "Highway 2 Designated "Veterans Memorial Highway"". Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
- ^ Macdonald, Julian (1999–2003). "Provincial Highways @ Saskatchewan Highways Website". Archived from the original on 15 February 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
- ^ "Western Canada Group Travel Planner: Getting to Western Canada". 1999–2003. Archived from the original on 19 September 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.