 |
|
07-01-2016, 11:07 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Blackfalds
Posts: 6,952
|
|
Worst stretch of highway in AB?
What do you think is the worst stretch of highway in Alberta? Not just a bad spot, I mean a KM or more of terrible roads.
Mine is highway 43 from valleyview to the Simonette road. The frost heaves have destroyed the road and I can't believe it isn't getting repaved.
|
07-01-2016, 11:27 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Millet
Posts: 457
|
|
Henday west, vibrate the guts outta yah!!
|
07-01-2016, 11:45 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Blackfalds
Posts: 6,952
|
|
I didn't think I had much of a gut until I drove on the henday
|
07-01-2016, 12:36 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Millarville,alberta
Posts: 494
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DiabeticKripple
What do you think is the worst stretch of highway in Alberta? Not just a bad spot, I mean a KM or more of terrible roads.
Mine is highway 43 from valleyview to the Simonette road. The frost heaves have destroyed the road and I can't believe it isn't getting repaved.
|
X2 on valleyview to simonette, between fox creek and white court has some pretty bad frost heaves as well
__________________
Ya just go out n ya give'r
|
07-01-2016, 12:42 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: GP AB
Posts: 16,250
|
|
That stretch of #43 past Valleyview is horrible, and of course I always grab a coffee at the Tim's just before I hit it. Half always seems to end up down the front of my shirt, you'd think I'd learn. More locally, Hwy 674 heading east off the #2, going to Teepee Creek....brutal.
__________________
'Once the monkeys learn they can vote themselves a banana, they'll never climb another tree.'. Robert Heinlein
'You can accomplish a lot more with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.' Al Capone
|
07-01-2016, 12:50 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 9,677
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Big pete
X2 on valleyview to simonette, between fox creek and white court has some pretty bad frost heaves as well
|
Agree, seen some serious log loads bounce through those heaves. Bad enough pulling sleds.
|
07-01-2016, 12:54 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Blackfalds
Posts: 6,952
|
|
Our new fluid pump has latches that you pull up, then they tip out to allow the treating iron to come off the rack, and I hit the really big heave and it opened one or the latches and a piece of iron fell out halfway and was sticking out 4ft into the ditch. I got back to the shop ang made a secondary pin you have to pull out now, but if both latches had opened there's would've been chaos
|
07-01-2016, 01:48 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 4,032
|
|
Cold Lake from about
McD's all the way to past the 7/11
is the s**ts for me..
|
07-01-2016, 02:18 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Central Alberta
Posts: 21,399
|
|
I'm gonna put the Elk River road on this list. About as bad as I've ever driven.
Grizz
__________________
"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
|
07-01-2016, 02:20 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Claresholm, Ab
Posts: 4,022
|
|
3 days of yardin' a 6000lb single axle trailer around Sk will cure you of the bellyaches about Ab roads
|
07-01-2016, 02:38 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sherwood Park, Alberta
Posts: 492
|
|
Highway 43 heading into Grande Prairie would get my vote.
__________________
My mom says I'm a keeper.
|
07-01-2016, 02:45 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: GP AB
Posts: 16,250
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by schreyer
Highway 43 heading into Grande Prairie would get my vote.
|
Used to be atrocious, but they completely redid it and finished last year. It is fantastic now. Prior to that, hauling a single axle trailer down it was enough to make you sea sick.
__________________
'Once the monkeys learn they can vote themselves a banana, they'll never climb another tree.'. Robert Heinlein
'You can accomplish a lot more with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.' Al Capone
|
07-01-2016, 03:11 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Lacombe, AB
Posts: 1,404
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams
I'm gonna put the Elk River road on this list. About as bad as I've ever driven.
Grizz
|
Elk River Road ain't a highway, although I'll agree it's bad. Lots of **** oilfield roads and secondary highways. Talking about main highways definitely the stretch between Valleyview and Fox Creek.
Nothing worse than SK secondary highways. The ones that you pray for a gravel section. Worst of all are temporary rig mat roads down a long pipeline right of way.
|
07-01-2016, 03:34 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 351
|
|
Highway 2 east of Slave Lake gets some bad frost heaves.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
|
07-01-2016, 04:14 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Sherwood Park, Alberta
Posts: 492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
Used to be atrocious, but they completely redid it and finished last year. It is fantastic now. Prior to that, hauling a single axle trailer down it was enough to make you sea sick.
|
Didn't know that they fixed it up! It's been a while since I've been on that stretch, so always a good heads up.
__________________
My mom says I'm a keeper.
|
07-01-2016, 04:55 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Stavely, AB
Posts: 785
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taco
3 days of yardin' a 6000lb single axle trailer around Sk will cure you of the bellyaches about Ab roads
|
Very true.
|
07-01-2016, 06:48 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Red Deer
Posts: 508
|
|
Highway 20 north of Sylvan Lake has a few spine jarring bumps. Those bumps have been there for what seems like forever.
Also, pretty much any road in Wetaskiwin County is in rough shape.
|
07-01-2016, 06:54 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sherwood Park, AB
Posts: 1,314
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Big pete
X2 on valleyview to simonette, between fox creek and white court has some pretty bad frost heaves as well
|
I just drove from Sherwood Park to Valleyview today, and yes, back again.
I was shocked at the condition of Hwy 43
As far as gravel roads Elk River Road can get pretty bad when wet. I remember one time being in 4wd-low to get thru the mud holes. This was about 15 years ago and it isn't much better now.
|
07-01-2016, 07:19 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 635
|
|
43 from Yellowhead to Onoway. Only because it's an old chunk of Socred highway that's been crap since forever. But all they do is patch the patches.
Or how about Elkwater to Fort Walsh on the dirt. Haven't been on it for a while so hopefully it's still awesome. Don't touch it I wouldn't want it any other way.
Highway 11 Sylvan to Rocky can be a pain at times too.
The concrete part of the Anthony Henday is going to be a piece of work in a few years when they can't grind the frost ripples out of it any more.
|
07-01-2016, 09:51 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Calgary
Posts: 1,681
|
|
I've driven every one of the roads mentioned in every season and I hear what you're saying BUT, this ain't nothing! AB roads are the best in the country (except maybe for the warm parts of BC).
|
07-01-2016, 11:52 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Berta
Posts: 67
|
|
Coal camp
__________________
 
|
07-02-2016, 10:16 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 530
|
|
Hwy 56 south of Battle River to 56/53 junction. Only stretch they haven't fixed and don't know why they won't.
|
07-02-2016, 10:45 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 301
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sushi
I've driven every one of the roads mentioned in every season and I hear what you're saying BUT, this ain't nothing! AB roads are the best in the country (except maybe for the warm parts of BC).
|
Absolutely, we have awesome highways here. Try and go for a drive into Saskatchewan ,and not the short stretch between the Alberta border and Meadow Lake Park, and you'll realize how lucky we are. We recently traveled Highway 21 between Goodsoil and Paradise Hill where they mark the "surface failures". It would be easier to mark the smooth sections! Honestly, many of the gravel roads in Saskatchewan are much better than the "paved" ones. At least they can send out a grader to smooth out the rough spots.
GN
|
07-02-2016, 12:59 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 8
|
|
41 south
Highway 41 south to Cypress Hills. More patches then original pavement, lines are painted on the grass as shoulders have eroded away. Going up Elkwater hill there are slide areas where right now pavement drops about 8 inches.
|
07-02-2016, 02:10 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 315
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DiabeticKripple
What do you think is the worst stretch of highway in Alberta? Not just a bad spot, I mean a KM or more of terrible roads.
Mine is highway 43 from valleyview to the Simonette road. The frost heaves have destroyed the road and I can't believe it isn't getting repaved.
|
This!!!
__________________
I hunt because I am hungry...
|
07-02-2016, 07:15 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Calgary
Posts: 1,681
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by genoel
Absolutely, we have awesome highways here. Try and go for a drive into Saskatchewan ,and not the short stretch between the Alberta border and Meadow Lake Park, and you'll realize how lucky we are. We recently traveled Highway 21 between Goodsoil and Paradise Hill where they mark the "surface failures". It would be easier to mark the smooth sections! Honestly, many of the gravel roads in Saskatchewan are much better than the "paved" ones. At least they can send out a grader to smooth out the rough spots.
GN
|
I've driven those roads too! Yep, they are rough. The maritimes have many back roads and municipal streets that are even worse.
I know this thread is about AB, but we shouldn't take things for granted!
|
07-02-2016, 09:15 PM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 4,090
|
|
I was just out on the yellowhead west from edmonton... thats pretty sketchy in places.
|
07-02-2016, 10:30 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 146
|
|
henday
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear Ballz
Henday west, vibrate the guts outta yah!!
|
try a crew cab dually pulling a 20ft car trailer wheel base is just right for the cracks
|
07-03-2016, 05:51 AM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 2,535
|
|
Used to be 127st between Yellowhead and 118ave in E-town but they are tearing it up now. It was completely unusable on a motorbike, looked like a war zone
|
07-03-2016, 08:54 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 3,666
|
|
It would be a slow thread if the question was best highway. Hwy 43 east and west of gp. Hwy 40 south of gp. Can't forget the roads in gp. Might be easier to say anything road in the county of gp.
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:47 AM.
|
Linear Mode
