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Highway 28
Highway 28 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Alberta Transportation
Length	293 km[1] (182 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Hwy 16 (TCH) in Edmonton
	Hwy 216 in Edmonton Hwy 37 in Namao Hwy 28A near Gibbons Hwy 38 in Redwater Hwy 63 near Radway Hwy 36 near Vilna Hwy 36 near Ashmont Hwy 41 in Hoselaw Hwy 41 in Bonnyville Hwy 55 in Cold Lake
East end	Lakeshore Drive in Cold Lake
Location
Specialized and rural municipalities	Sturgeon County, Thorhild County, Smoky Lake County, St. Paul No. 19 County, Bonnyville No. 87 M.D.
Major cities	Edmonton, Cold Lake
Towns	Bon Accord, Gibbons, Redwater, Smoky Lake, Bonnyville
Villages	Waskatenau, Vilna
Highway system
Provincial highways in Alberta ← Hwy 27 Hwy 28A →

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 28, commonly referred to as Highway 28, is a highway in north-central Alberta, Canada that connects Edmonton to Cold Lake. It begins at Yellowhead Trail (Highway 16) in Edmonton as 97 Street NW, running through the city's north suburbs before entering Sturgeon County and passing CFB Edmonton. After merging with Highway 28A near Gibbons it winds through agricultural lands of north-central Alberta, roughly paralleling the North Saskatchewan River until Smoky Lake before continuing east through St. Paul County to Bonnyville.^[2] It turns northeast to CFB Cold Lake, before ending at Lakeshore Drive in the city of Cold Lake shortly thereafter.^[3]

The highway is a component of Canada's National Highway System. Between Highway 28A near Gibbons and the intersection with Highway 63 near Radway, it forms part of the Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor and is designated as a core route. For the remainder of the route from Radway to the eastern end at Cold Lake, it is designated as a feeder route.^[4]

History

Highway 28 was built in 1961, connecting Alberta's Lakeland to Edmonton by gravel road for the first time. Construction of the highway required splitting Mann Lake in two, creating Upper Mann Lake and Lower Mann Lake.^[5]

Prior to 2006, Highway 28 ran through St. Paul. A 46 km (29 mi) section of the current highway between Ashmont and Hoselaw was formerly designated as Highway 28A, a bypass of St. Paul. As part of an effort to simplify highway route numbering in the region, this section was re-signed as Highway 28 in 2006 forming a more contiguous route between Edmonton and Cold Lake, while Highway 28 through St. Paul was re-signed as Highway 29.^[6]

Highway 28X

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 28X, commonly referred to as Highway 28X, was a 14-kilometre (9 mi) spur route of Highway 28. It began at Highway 28, approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Cold Lake, and travelled to the Saskatchewan boundary where it continued east as Saskatchewan Highway 55.^[7] In c. 1977, Highway 28X was part of a number of highways which were renumbered when Alberta Highway 55 was established between Athabasca and the Saskatchewan border.^[7][8]

Future

Alberta Transportation ultimately intends to upgrade the entire Edmonton-Fort McMurray corridor to a divided highway, which would include twinning of Highway 28 from Highway 28A to Highway 63.^[9]

Major intersections

Starting from the west end of Highway 28:

Rural/specialized municipality	Location	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
City of Edmonton		−4.4	−2.7	Jasper Avenue	Former Hwy 28 southern terminus
		0.0	0.0	Yellowhead Trail (Hwy 16) – Lloydminster, Jasper	Single-point urban interchange (Exit 389 on Hwy 16); Hwy 28 travels north
		7.3	4.5	Anthony Henday Drive (Hwy 216)	Interchange (Exit 39 on Hwy 216)
Sturgeon County	​	8.1	5.0	Former Hwy 28A north	Interchange permanently closed and removed
		12.0	7.5	Sturgeon Road – CFB Edmonton	Traffic signals
	Namao	15.3	9.5	Hwy 37 – Onoway, Fort Saskatchewan	Traffic signals
	​	25.1	15.6	Hwy 642 west – Morinville
		27.7	17.2	Hwy 803 north	Hwy 28 turns east; directional signage changes
	Bon Accord	33.0	20.5	51 Street
	Gibbons	39.9	24.8	Hwy 28A south – Edmonton	Trumpet interchange; Hwy 28 branches north
	​	53.3	33.1	Hwy 651 west – Legal
		56.0	34.8	Range Road 221 – Opal
	Redwater	59.9	37.2	Hwy 38 east (48 Avenue) – Bruderheim, Two Hills
Thorhild County	​	69.9	43.4	Hwy 827 north – Egremont, Thorhild, Athabasca
		76.4	47.5	Hwy 63 north – Lac La Biche, Fort McMurray Hwy 829 south – Redwater
	Radway	82.6	51.3	UAR 158 south
Smoky Lake County	​	93.0	57.8	Hwy 831 – Boyle, Lamont
	Waskatenau	94.1	58.5	UAR 74 south
	Warspite	104.4	64.9	UAR 104 south
	Smoky Lake	115.7	71.9	Hwy 855 (50 Street) – Caslan, Andrew, Mundare
		116.5	72.4	UAR 156 south
	​	139.0	86.4	Hwy 857 south – Willingdon, Vegreville UAR 217 north – Bellis
		145.5	90.4	Hwy 36 north – Lac La Biche	West end of Hwy 36 concurrency
	Vilna	153.0	95.1	UAR 116 south
	​	154.3	95.9	Hwy 859 south
	Spedden	166.5	103.5	PAR 120 north – Garner Lake Provincial Park
County of St. Paul No. 19	​	169.7	105.4	Hwy 866 north
	Ashmont	176.7	109.8	Hwy 36 south – St. Paul, Two Hills	East end of Hwy 36 concurrency
	​	185.1	115.0	Hwy 867 north
		193.5	120.2	Range Road 100 – Mallaig, Horseshoe Bay
		198.4	123.3	Hwy 881 – Therien, St. Vincent, St. Paul
M.D. of Bonnyville No. 87	​	206.5	128.3	Hwy 882 north – Glendon
	Hoselaw	223.1	138.6	Hwy 41 south – St. Paul, Elk Point, Vermilion	West end of Hwy 41 concurrency
	​	233.3	145.0	UAR 96 west – Bonnyville Beach
	Bonnyville	240.6	149.5	Hwy 41 north (55 Street) – La Corey	East end of Hwy 41 concurrency
		242.5	150.7	Hwy 659 east (50 Avenue) – Lloydminster	Hwy 28 branches northeast
	​	247.2	153.6	Hwy 660 west
	Fort Kent	251.9	156.5	Range Road 50
	Ardmore	260.6	161.9	Hwy 892
	Beaver Crossing	278.6	173.1	Crosses the Beaver River
	​	280.4	174.2	Hwy 55 east – Pierceland, Meadow Lake, Prince Albert To Hwy 897 south – Elizabeth Metis Settlement, Marwayne, Lloydminster	Hwy 28 turns north; south end of Hwy 55 wrong-way concurrency
City of Cold Lake		285.6	177.5	50 Avenue / Centre Avenue – CFB Cold Lake	Former Hwy 897
		290.6	180.6	Hwy 55 west / 16 Avenue – Cold Lake Provincial Park, Lac La Biche	Hwy 28 turns northeast; north end of Hwy 55 wrong-way concurrency
		293.0	182.1	Lakeshore Drive
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus

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