St. Albert Trail

Mark Messier Trail
Start/End points of St. Albert Trail
Part of	Hwy 2
Maintained by	City of Edmonton City of St. Albert
Length	14.1 km (8.8 mi)[1]
Location	Edmonton and St. Albert
South end	118 Avenue / Groat Road
Major junctions	Yellowhead Trail, 137 Avenue, Anthony Henday Drive, Gervais Road / Hebert Road, McKenney Avenue / Bellerose Drive, Giroux Road / Boudreau Road, Villeneuve Road
North end	City Limits (St. Albert)

St. Albert Trail is a major arterial road connecting the cities of Edmonton and St. Albert, Alberta. It is part of a 40-kilometre-long (25 mi) continuous roadway that runs through Sherwood Park, Edmonton, and St. Albert that includes Wye Road, Sherwood Park Freeway, Whyte Avenue, portions of University Avenue and Saskatchewan Drive, and Groat Road.

The route begins as Groat Road, and becomes St. Albert Trail at 118 Avenue (at a traffic circle with traffic lights). At the interchange with Yellowhead Trail, the road becomes part of Alberta Highway 2. After only a few blocks (137 Avenue) the road now becomes Mark Messier Trail, as it moves away from central Edmonton.^[2] At the Edmonton – St. Albert boundary the road was known as St. Albert Road until early 2009 when St. Albert City Council approved a name change from St. Albert Road to St. Albert Trail.^[3] St. Albert Trail keeps this designation throughout that city, before exiting the city boundaries to the north where it becomes a divided highway as far north as Morinville. North of the St. Albert boundary the road has no other name than Highway 2.

Two smaller segments of St. Albert Trail also exists as local roads, separated from the artery when Edmonton expanded its grid system of streets, and cut it off. They are a southbound only at 111 Avenue & 127 Street, and a two way from 112 Avenue to 117 Avenue.

Neighbourhoods

List of neighbourhoods St. Albert Trail runs through, in order from south to north. Coincidentally it starts in Inglewood, Edmonton, and runs through Inglewood, St. Albert.^[4]

Major intersections

This is a list of major intersections, starting at the south end of St. Albert Trail.^[4]

Location	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Edmonton	−1.5	−0.93	127 Street	Discontiguous residential street
	−0.25	−0.16	117 Avenue / 131 Street
	Gap in St. Albert Trail
	0.0	0.0	Groat Road / 118 Avenue	Traffic circle (traffic lights); access to City Centre; roadway continues as Groat Road
	1.3	0.81	Yellowhead Trail (Hwy 16) to Hwy 216 / Hwy 2 south	Diamond interchange (traffic lights); Hwy 16 exit 381; south end of Hwy 2 concurrency
	3.6	2.2	137 Avenue	South end of Mark Messier Trail
	5.4	3.4	156 Street, Campbell Road
	6.3	3.9	Anthony Henday Drive (Hwy 216)	Partial cloverleaf interchange (traffic lights); Hwy 216 exit 31; north end of Mark Messier Trail
St. Albert	7.0	4.3	Gervais Road, Hebert Road
	8.0	5.0	Green Grove Drive, Sterling Street	Access to Downtown St. Albert
	8.9	5.5	St. Anne Street, Sturgeon Road	Access to Downtown St. Albert
	9.0	5.6	Crosses the Sturgeon River
	9.4	5.8	St. Vital Avenue, Rivercrest Crescent	Passes St. Albert Centre
	9.7	6.0	McKenney Avenue, Bellerose Drive
	11.0	6.8	Giroux Road / Boudreau Road	Access to Sturgeon Community Hospital
	11.4	7.1	Villeneuve Road (Hwy 633 west) / Erin Ridge Road	Split intersection (traffic lights)
	14.1	8.8	Hwy 2 north – Morinville, Athabasca, Peace River	St. Albert city limits; Hwy 2 continues north
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition

See also

• Transportation in Edmonton

References