Sherwood Park Freeway

Sherwood Park Freeway
Sherwood Park Freeway is a freeway in east Edmonton, stretching 7.1 km into Strathcona County ending east of Anthony Henday Drive.
Major highways of Edmonton with Sherwood Park Freeway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by the City of Edmonton and Alberta Transportation
Length7.1 km[1] (4.4 mi)
History1964 (construction begins)[2]
1968 (completed)[3]
Major junctions
West end71 Street in Edmonton
East end Highway 216
Location
CountryCanada
ProvinceAlberta
MunicipalitiesStrathcona County
Major cities
Highway system
Highway 93 Highway 201

Sherwood Park Freeway is a 7.1-kilometre (4.4 mi) freeway that connects east Edmonton to Sherwood Park in Alberta, Canada. It begins in the Gainer Industrial area, where Argyll Road and 82 (Whyte) Avenue merge, before it intersects 50 Street. It then curves slightly northeast through industrial areas in southeastern Edmonton across 34 Street into Strathcona County, then across 17 Street, and the freeway ends at Anthony Henday Drive. It then continues into Sherwood Park as Wye Road (Highway 630). It is primarily a commuter route, with heavier weekday volume westbound in the morning and eastbound in the afternoon, as residents of Sherwood Park commute to Edmonton.

Officially designated by Alberta Transportation as Highway 100, construction of Sherwood Park Freeway was completed in 1968 as a free-flowing alignment of Highway 14 several hundred metres north of the former two-lane road, which was then re-signed as Highway 14A and is now known as 76 Avenue. Whitemud Drive took over the designation of Highway 14 upon its completion in the late 1990s.

  1. ^ "Sherwood Park Freeway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "Sherwood Park history - The first churches". Strathcona County. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016. ...construction began on the Sherwood Park Freeway in 1964.
  3. ^ "Sherwood Park history - Unpaved roads create memories". Strathcona County. Retrieved November 17, 2016. ...Sherwood Park Freeway and the interchange at Highway 14 were opened in 1968...