Alberta Highway 873

Highway in Alberta

Major junctionsSouth endRange Road 162 near RainierMajor intersections

Highway 36 near Rainier

Highway 542 in Brooks

Highway 1 (TCH) in BrooksNorth end

Highway 550 in Duchess LocationCountryCanadaProvinceAlbertaSpecialized and rural municipalitiesCounty of NewellMajor citiesBrooksVillagesDuchess Highway system

Alberta Provincial Highway Network

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Alberta Provincial Highway No. 873, commonly referred to as Highway 873, is a highway in southern Alberta, Canada. It generally runs north-south from Range Road 162 near the Hamlet of Rainier, through the City of Brooks to Highway 550 in Village of Duchess.^[2]^[3]

Route description

Highway 873 is a two-lane undivided highway in the County of Newell that begins as an east-west route at the intersection of Range Road 162 and Township Road 164, 1.6 km (1.0 mi) west of Rainer. It travels east to the intersection of Highway 36 where it becomes a gravel highway and continues east along the south end of Lake Newell to Highway 535, where it turns north and continues towards Kinbrook Island Provincial Park, where at the park entrance it once again becomes a paved highway.^[2] Highway 873 continues north where it enters Brooks along 7 Street E where it follows a series of city streets, a short concurrency with Highway 542, and leaves Brooks along 2 Street W, the city's main commercial strip. It crosses the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1) at the city's northern boundary and continues north past Highway 544 to Duchess where it ends at the intersection of Highway 550. The roadway continues north as Range Road 144.^[2]

History

The section of Highway 873 between Brooks and Duchess has had multiple designations in its history. Along with Highway 550, the route was originally designated as part of Highway 2, which at the time was an east-west inter-provincial highway that ran through Calgary and Medicine Hat (the present-day Highway 2 was designated as Highway 1).^[4] In 1941, Highway 2 was renumbered to Highway 1 to allow for continual numbering through Western Canada along the future Trans-Canada Highway, which was commissioned in 1949.^[5] In the mid-1950s, the Trans-Canada Highway was realigned between Brooks and Bassano, resulting in the Duchess-Bassano section being decommissioned and the Brooks-Duchess section becoming part of Highway 36.^[6] In the 1970s, Highway 36 north was realigned to align with the Highway 1/36 (south) junction located west of Brooks, resulting in the Brooks-Duchess section becoming Highway 873.^[7]

Major intersections

From south to north:

Rural/specialized municipality	Location	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
County of Newell		0.0	0.0	Range Road 162 / Township Road 164	Hwy 873 southern terminus
	Rainier	1.6	0.99	Range Road 161
		6.8	4.2	Highway 36 – Brooks, Taber
		18.2	11.3	Highway 535 west – Tilley
		23.4	14.5	PAR 103 west – Kinbrook Island Provincial Park
City of Brooks		37.0	23.0	Sutherland Drive 7 Street E	Hwy 873 turns onto Sutherland Drive; shortcut route continues north on 7 Street E (trucks prohibited)^[8]
		38.1	23.7	Cassils Road (Highway 542 east)	Hwy 873 follows Cassils Road; southern end of Hwy 542 concurrency
		38.8	24.1	7 Street E / Lakewood Road	Shortcut route along 7 Street E (trucks prohibited)^[8]
		39.7	24.7	2 Street W – City Centre Cassils Road (Highway 542 west)	Hwy 873 follows 2 Street W; northern end of Hwy 542 concurrency
		41.8	26.0	Highway 1 (TCH) – Calgary, Medicine Hat	Interchange
County of Newell		52.7	32.7	Highway 544 – Patricia, Dinosaur Provincial Park
County of Newell	Duchess	57.4	35.7	Highway 550 west – Rosemary, Bassano Range Road 144	Hwy 873 northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

^ ^a ^b Google (2017-01-24). "Highway 873 in Alberta" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c Road Map (PDF) (Map). County of Newell. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
^ "Provincial Highways 500 - 986 Progress Chart" (PDF). Alberta Transportation. March 2015. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
^ Department of Public Works (1939). Alberta Official Road Map (PDF) (Map). Government of Alberta. §§ B-2, C-2.
^ "Trans-Canada Highway Act". Department of Justice Canada. R.S.C. 1970, c. T-12. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
^ The H.M. Gousha Company (1956). Shell Map of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Map). The Shell Oil Company. §§ E-13, F-13.
^ Travel Alberta (1978–1979). Alberta Official Road Map (Map). Government of Alberta. § M-7.
^ ^a ^b Truck Routes (Map). City of Brooks. Retrieved 2017-01-24.

Alberta Provincial Highway Network

1 - 216 series

500 - 986 series

500/600 (south– north)	500 501 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 537 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 549 550 552 555 556 560 561 562 563 564 566 567 569 570 573 574 575 576 577 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 607 608 609 610 611 613 614 616 617 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 633 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 651 652 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 663 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 674 676 677 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 688 689 690 691 692 695 697
700/800 (west– east)	717 719 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 739 740 741 742 743 744 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 769 770 771 772 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 783 785 786 791 792 795 797 799 800 801 803 804 805 806 808 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 820 821 822 824 825 827 829 830 831 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 864 866 867 869 870 872 873 875 876 877 879 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 889 892 893 894 895 897 899
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