Manitoba Provincial Road 470
Provincial Road 470 is a east–west highway in the Westman Region of Manitoba near the southern boundary of Riding Mountain National Park. It connects Horod with Stuart Lake and Menzie.
Route description
PR 470 begins just north of the hamlet of Menzie and just south of the locality of Rogers at a junction with PR 566. It meanders its way east along the border between the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead and the Municipality of Harrison Park, travelling past numerous lakes and small farms while passing through the locality of Wisla and by the St. John Church Dolyny Provincial Historic Site. Fully crossing into the Municipality of Harrison Park via a short concurrency with northbound PR 354 just south of Horod, the highway crosses a bridge over the Little Saskatchewan River and winds its way northeast to travel along the southern coastline of Stuart Lake. PR 470 comes to an end a few kilometres later at an intersection with PR 250. PR 470 is a rural, gravel, two-lane highway for its entire length.
History
Prior to 1992, PR 470 was a much longer highway and was signed as north south instead of its current east–west designation. It originally began at a junction with what was then PR 469 just east of the town of Hamiota, heading north to the hamlet of McConnell to have an intersection with what was then PR 355, heading east along Road 86N for a short distance before heading due north along Road 131W. The highway crossed the Yellowhead Highway at Ipswich, where it also travelled past the Ipswich Elevator Provincial Historic Site, before continuing on to the hamlet of Menzie, where it shared a short concurrency with PTH 45. Finally, PR 470 followed what is now PR 566 northbound to meet its current alignment just south of Rogers. PR 470's original length was.