This is the stretch where I was most grateful to have the Airstream along. We made an unscheduled stop at McLeod Provincial Park for lunch simply because the timing worked out.
The waterfront day use area turned out to be a nice place for a picnic. From Jellicoe the scenery starts to improve, and then roughly 50 km north of Nipigon there are suddenly towering cliffs formed from columns of rock, offset by abundant waters and rolling hills.
The Palisades of the Pijitawabik are formed by a geological phenomenon called columnar jointing, which ends up creating one of the most picturesque segments on the entire highway. Instead, we carried straight on to our ultimate reward after a long day of driving…. We visited the swimming hole, but the water is silty and subject to the output levels of the hydroelectric dam upstream; focus your time on the trails surrounding the falls instead, which captivated us for hours.
Along the way, we collected park crest stickers from each of the parks we visited and added them to our new Ontario Parks passport. Our reprieve came through another unplanned lunch stop, this time at Quetico Provincial Park.
We lingered longer than planned thanks to a geology drop-in program for kids and a great day use area with quality swimming. To the west of town, the Canadian Shield recedes and briefly gives way once again to agricultural lands, this time tracing the banks of the Rainy River as it edges toward the United States border. And finally, 1, km later, we land in the village bearing the same name and our journey comes to an end.
Honestly, the arrival is a little anticlimactic. Rainy River is a tiny border village that happens to have lofty bragging rights as the terminus of the longest street in the world.
Some intrepid tourists stop for pictures with the very average-looking sign that marks the end of Highway 11, and then they move on, while life here carries on largely unabated in its quietude. The Guinness Book of World Records retained an entry for this until , after which point the Province of Ontario downloaded many highways to municipalities and made the delineation between Yonge Street and Highway 11 more stark.
Cameron Bevers is a project manager for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. He may very well hold the distinction of being the only person alive to have driven every one of the 21, km of the provincial highway network. The author also owes Mr.
Bevers a debt as his consult was invaluable in compiling many of the facts cited in this article. Bevers is intimately versed with the malleability of Yonge Street and Highway 11 over its decades of existence. What does he think of this claim that Yonge Street is the longest road in the world? It is finish even before Barrie — at Holland Landing, north of Newmarket town where is born Jim Carrey, take look at google maps.
Barrie also has Yonge st. So what is the real longest street is still up for debate. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. If you include the roads that it is connected to at either end, you can make a straight run from Dundas and Scarlet Road all the way to downtown Collingwood without turning at intersections: a total trip of around km.
Dundas Street is longer as a named street, bearing its name from Woodbine Avenue in the east to a block past Highway 6 in the west. As Highway 5 and a country road, it continues to the banks of the Grand River. If you could name that section Dundas Street, you could probably have a decent contender to take back the Guiness title.
O Street running through Lincoln, Nebraska is pretty darn long, though. As a perfect road bearing its own name, it runs for The roads its seamlessly connected to offer a straight-line trip of kilometres. This is good dialogue. I suggest everyone try to walking it with me next year on the Spring Equinox. This year I completed 31 miles, next year who knows!
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