Crowsnest Highway

 
Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3: Dewdney Trail) is the scenic and, in parts, quite charming south-lying road in Western Canada which provides the east-west link via Crowsnest Pass (1396 m (4581 ft)). Near Hope, 154 km (96 mi.) east of Vancouver, this less busy highway branches off from the TransCanada Highway and passes close to the USA border through the south-east of British Columbia and over the Rocky Mountains into southern Alberta. After nearly 2000 km (1240 mi.) the Crowsnest Highway again meets up with TransCanada Highway 1 in Medicine Hat near the Saskatchewan border. It then continues in the shape of the "Red Coat Trail", a tourist route consisting mainly of by-roads through unspoilt rural countryside in the south of Saskatchewan and Manitoba as far as Winnipeg; to a large extent this is the route taken in 1874 by the men of the North West Mounted Police when they came West to restore law and order.

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View over Fort Steele Heritage Town.View over Fort Steele Heritage Town.
Aerial view of Frank Slide, Crowsnest, AB.Aerial view of Frank Slide, Crowsnest, AB.
An old locomotive at Fort Steele Heritage Town.An old locomotive at Fort Steele Heritage Town.
The historic Keremeos Grist Mill.The historic Keremeos Grist Mill.
A boardwalk through the Creston Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.A boardwalk through the Creston Valley Wildlife Sanctuary.
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