What's the ugliest stretch of highway in Canada???

[SmileyBoy]

By far, it's gotta be Trans Canada 1 from Calgary to the Alberta/Saskatchewan border. There's absolutely NO TOPOGRAPHY OR VEGETATION. It makes North Dakota and Saskatchewan look like forested mountains in comparison. The scenery looks exactly like something out of an abstract painting. There's the road, telephone poles along it, and FLAT, BROWN NOTHING. I'm not talking about a few trees and ditches, I MEAN NOTHING. A man can go insane driving on that if he doesn't have his System Of A Down CD in the player.

And BTW, Medicine Hat (pop. 53,000), while a nice city in itself, had the UGLIEST surroundings of any town in the WORLD.

[JVS]

1. I like Canada, but they seem not to have discovered highway lights and...

thos little reflectors for along the yellow lik eon a road. Driving a Canadian highway at night can be a bit nerve wracking

[camero]

2. Hwy 16

From Winnipeg to Saskatoon. Nothing, nothing and more nothing.

[SmileyBoy]

3. The Yellowhead from WPG to the Toon is Xanadu compared to...

...Trans Canada 1 from Calgary to the provincial border. Ever drive eastbound out of Calgary???

At least from The Peg to The Toon, there's trees and ditches, and a beautiful 20-mile stretch of the Turtle Mountains north of Brandon.

[camero]

4. Not eastbound

Drove it westbound every other week though a few years back. It has some hills at least and a 110kmh speed limit. You can do 120kmh and get away with it. Plus the skyline when you get close to Calgary is nice.

I should mention Hwy 5 from Kamloops BC to Vancouver. 56 miles going downhill. No shoulder in a lot of places. Freaked me out the first two times I drove it though the scenery is stunning.

Edit: I forgot about Turtle Moutain there. Thanks for bringing that memory back. It is nice.

[eileen from OH]

5. I don't know the route

but it's north of Toronto and goes through a town called "Buttonville." We were stopped by a cop who asked us if we knew the speed limit in Buttonville (like that's common knowledge). Thereafter I was focussed on making up a story about a "ticket from Buttonville".

eileen from OH

[izzie]

6. It also can be a B----- to drive.

Some parts on the top part take your breath away. Like another world in size.Wild looking