Ontario Highway 62

Highway 62 marker
Highway 62
Madoc–Pembroke Road
Map
A map of Highway 62
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Route information
Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Length165.8 km[2] (103.0 mi)
ExistedAugust 11, 1937[1]–present
Major junctions
South end Highway 33 in Bloomfield
Major intersections Highway 401 in Belleville
 Highway 7 in Madoc
 Highway 28 in Bancroft
North end Highway 127 at Maynooth
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
Highway system
Highway 61 Highway 63

King's Highway 62, commonly referred to as Highway 62, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The highway travels south–north from Highway 33 at Bloomfield in Prince Edward County, through Belleville, Madoc and Bancroft, to Maynooth, where it ends at a junction with Highway 127. Prior to 1997, the route continued north and east of Maynooth through Combermere, Barry's Bay, Killaloe, Round Lake and Bonnechere to Highway 17 in Pembroke. This section of highway was redesignated Hastings Highlands Municipal Road 62, Renfrew County Road 62, and Renfrew County Road 58.

Highway 62 was designated by the Department of Highways (DHO), predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation, in 1937 along the Madoc–Pembroke Road between those two communities. A gap existed along the route between Barry's Bay and Round Lake for several decades pending construction of a new road which never took place. The highway was extended south from Madoc to Highway 14 at Foxboro in 1966. Two years later, Highway 521 was renumbered as part of Highway 62, and a concurrency established with Highway 60 between Barry's Bay and Killaloe, uniting the discontinuous sections. In the 1980s, it assumed the route of Highway  14 from Foxboro to Bloomfield, establishing the peak length of the highway at 294.7 km (183.1 mi). The northernmost portion of the route was renumbered Highway 148 in 1982.

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