Highway 811 (Ontario)

Infobox road
highway_name = Highway 811
marker_

length_km = 62
length_notes =
direction_a = North
direction_b = South
direction = North/South
starting_terminus = Highway 527
ending_terminus = In the Boreal forest near Kashishibog Lake
cities =
counties = Thunder Bay District, Ontario


alternate_name =
established = 1976

Highway 811 is the longest of Ontario's tertiary highways, and is the highest-numbered of any current provincially-maintained road in the province (excluding the accidental posting of Highway 7051 on Wolfe Island).

History

This long highway off from Highway 527, roughly halfway between Thunder Bay and Armstrong, and heads northwestwards for 62 km (39 miles) towards Savant Lake, although as of 2008 the road reaches only halfway there. In 1974, the MTO released a study for transportation in Northwestern Ontario, and found a potential benefit for a roadway between Highways 527 and Highway 599 at Savant Lake.

The Ministry of Transportation assumed control of a forest road that branched off from Highway 527, and renumbered it as Highway 811 in 1976. While the road extension to Savant Lake has not been announced or built yet, Highway 811 still forms an important forestry road.

The road is gravel for its entire length. There are no communities along Highway 811, it is almost exclusively used for wilderness travel or forest operations.

External links

* [http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Hwy811.htm Highway 811 at TheKingsHighway.ca]
* [http://members.aol.com/Hwys/OntHwys/OntHwys800-811.html Ontario Highways 800-811]
* [http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=Hwy-811+%26+Hwy-527,+Ontario&daddr=49.76,-89.90&layer=&sll=49.756429,-89.903923&sspn=0.003057,0.006416&ie=UTF8&z=9&ll=49.589349,-89.653931&spn=0.78519,1.642456&t=h&om=1 Google Maps: Highway 811]