Alberta Highway 14
Highway 14 is an east-west highway in central Alberta, Canada. It stretches from Edmonton through Wainwright to the Alberta–Saskatchewan border, running parallel to the more northern Highway 16. Highway 14 is about long.
Along with Saskatchewan Highway 40, it forms part of the Poundmaker Trail, named after Chief Poundmaker of the Cree.
Route description
Highway 14 officially begins at the southeastern extremity of Edmonton at Anthony Henday Drive, Edmonton's ring road, near the locality of Bretona. The highway travels east as a divided highway and intersects Highway 21 before the divided highway ends west of South Cooking Lake. It continues east toward Tofield where it bends southeast, paralleling the main line of the Canadian National Railway, and passes through Ryley, Poe, Holden, and Bruce before intersecting Highway 36 in Viking. The highway continues through the communities of Kinsella, Irma, Fabyan, and Wainwright, crossing Highway 41. The route then travels due east and intersects Highway 17 to enter Saskatchewan.History
Highway 14 historically began at Highway 2 in Old Strathcona at the intersection of 104 Street and Whyte (82) Avenue, following Whyte Avenue and 79 Avenue out of Edmonton, until it was realigned to the newly constructed Sherwood Park Freeway in 1968. Just west of Sherwood Park, at the Highway 14X junction, Highway 14 travelled south for along present-day Anthony Henday Drive before turning east. In the 1980s, Highway 14 was rerouted to follow Whitemud Drive within Edmonton; however, it followed 50 Street and Sherwood Park Freeway as at the time Whitemud Drive terminated at 34 Street. In 1999, Whitemud Drive was extended east to Highway 14, resulting Highway 14 being rerouted away from the Sherwood Park Freeway, along with the section north of Whitemud Drive and Highway 14X becoming Highway 216.In 2007 the southeast portion of Anthony Henday Drive was completed, while Highway 14 remained designated on Whitemud Drive as a city-maintained roadway, despite signage at Bretona indicating that Highway 14 ended at Anthony Henday Drive. In 2016, the northeastern portion of Anthony Henday Drive was completed; part of the project was rebuilding the section between Whitemud Drive and Yellowhead Trail and the Highway 14 signage was removed removed at the Whitemud Drive interchange. In subsequent years the official Highway 14 designation has been removed from Whitemud Drive; however, some eastbound trailblazer signage remains.