Alberta Highway 16A

Highway in Alberta

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 16A, commonly referred to as Highway 16A, is the designation of three alternate routes off Alberta Highway 16 (the Yellowhead highway) in Alberta, Canada. The Evansburg – Entwistle section is called 16A:08 by Alberta Transportation, while 16A:24 runs through Vegreville. The section west of Edmonton is labelled 16A:14 and 16A:16 on Alberta Transportation maps, but is better known as Parkland Highway and Stony Plain Road.

Highway 16A:08 parallels Highway 16 to the north, intersecting Highway 22, and passing through Evansburg, Pembina River Provincial Park, and Entwistle.

Highway 16A used to follow Baseline Road (101 Avenue), past Refinery Row, and linked with Highway 16 in Strathcona County. It began at the Edmonton city limits, located approximately east of the 50 Street intersection, and traveled east for to Highway 14X where it turned north for and terminated at Highway 16. Highway 14X was later renumbered Highway 216 in 1999, and signed as a part of Anthony Henday Drive in 2010.

The Strathcona County segment of Highway 16A used to be part of a larger route which passed through central Edmonton, itself an original alignment of Highway 16. At the time, Highway 16 entered west Edmonton along Stony Plain Road and followed Mayfield Road, and Highway 16A originated at the intersection of Highway 16, Stony Plain Road, Mayfield Road. It travelled east along Stony Plain Road and 102 Avenue through the former town of Jasper Place for to 124 Street where it turned south for and then turned east onto Jasper Avenue for , passing through Downtown Edmonton. At 95 Street, Highway 16A turned south for before turning east along Rowland Road for and crossing the North Saskatchewan River along the Dawson Bridge. East of 84 Street, Highway 16A followed 106 Avenue for to 79 Street (later using 84 Street), where it traveled south before turning east onto 101 Avenue and leaving Edmonton. Highway 16A was phased out in the early 1980s.