Highway 129 (Ontario)

Infobox road
province=ON
type=Hwy
route=129
alternate_name=


maint=the Ministry of Transportation
length_km=
length_ref=Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, [http://www.raqsa.mto.gov.on.ca/techpubs/TrafficVolumes.nsf/tvweb 2004 Annual Average Daily Traffic] ]
length_round=1
established=
direction_a=South
terminus_a=jct|state=ON|Hwy|17 in Thessalon
junction=jct|state=ON|Hwy|554 near Wharncliffe
jct|state=ON|Hwy|556 near Aubrey Falls Provincial Park
jct|state=ON|Hwy|667 near Five Mile Lake Provincial Park
jct|state=ON|Hwy|101 near Chapleau
direction_b=North
terminus_b=Chapleau
previous_type=Hwy
previous_route=127
next_type=Hwy
next_route=130

Highway 129 is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Algoma and Sudbury districts, the highway extends for 221 kilometres (137 miles) from a junction with Highway 17 at Thessalon to the township of Chapleau just north of Highway 101.

The highway is one of the most isolated in Ontario and among the least-used of the King's Highways. Although the highway is an important access route for several isolated communities, including Little Rapids, Sultan, Kormak and Nemegos, as well as provincial parks such as Aubrey Falls, Five Mile Lake and Wakami Lake, the only community located directly on the highway's route between its termini is Wharncliffe. Services are few and far between on the highway.

Highway 129 is quite substandard in many areas, resembling a secondary highway or low-volume county road with narrow pavement, sharp corners, steep vertical grades and even uncontrolled one-lane bridges. However, due to very low traffic volumes, there is no real demand for upgrades.

Until the early 1980s, this road was also given the Trans-Canada Highway designation, as the "Chapleau Route", being an alternate route to Highways 17, 101, and 144.

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