Highway 60 is a provincially-maintained highway running from Huntsville, Ontario to Renfrew, Ontario. Huntsville (2001 population 17,338) is a town in the Muskoka Region of Ontario, Canada. ... Renfrew is a town on the Bonnechere River in eastern Ontario, Canada in Renfrew County. ...
Starting in Huntsville, it is commonly accessed from the interchange with King William Street (Muskoka district road 3). While near Huntsville, the highway offers four lanes of traffic until it drops down to two lanes of traffic east of the town's golf and ski resorts. Highway 60 continues through and connects to Highway 35 near Dwight (part of Township of Lake of Bays), before continuing on through Oxtongue Lake (part of Haliburton). The Muskoka District Municipality (more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka, or simply Muskoka) is a regional municipality in Central Ontario that extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching in the south, to the western border of Algonquin Provincial Park in...
The highway is a major access corridor for Algonquin Provincial Park. While a permit is not required to go through the park, visitors wishing to stop at any trails or rest areas within the park are required to have one. Wildlife such as moose occaisionally can be seen while driving, and drivers have been known to slow down considerably due to such a rare occurance. A tiny island in Algonquin at sunset Algonquin Provincial Park is a Provincial Park in central Ontario, Canada. ... This article is about the land mammal. ...
The highway connects the east end of the park with the Ottawa Valley, through communities such as Barry's Bay until ending at a junction with Highway 17 in Renfew. The Ottawa Valley is the valley of the Ottawa River for the west-east portion of its path through the Canadian Shield from Mattawa to Ottawa. ... Highway 17 is the main route of the Trans Canada Highway through Ontario. ...
External Links
[History of Ontario's King's Highways (http://www.thekingshighway.ca/)] - [Highway 60 (http://www.thekingshighway.ca/Hwy60.htm)]
Ontario’s longstanding public utility, Ontario Hydro, was restructured by the Electricity Act of 1988.
Ontario plants produce enough refined petroleum not only to meet provincial needs but also to export small amounts to other provinces and to the United States.
This is somewhat misleading because 90 percent of the people in Ontario live in less than 10 percent of the land area, all of it in the south.
Feeds |
Contact