British Columbia Highway 28

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Highway 28

Gold River Highway

Route information

Maintained by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

Length

89 km (55 mi)

Existed

1970–present

Major junctions

West end

Gold River

East end

Highway 19 / Highway 19A in Campbell River

Location

Country

Canada

Province

British Columbia

Highway system

British Columbia provincial highways

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Highway 27

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Highway 29

Highway 28 is an east–west highway on the northern part of Vancouver Island, within the Strathcona Regional District. It is the main link to the northern part of Strathcona Provincial Park and the remote logging communities of Gold River and Tahsis, on the northwest coast of the Island. The highway first opened in 1970. Before the section of Highway 19 from Campbell River to Port Hardy was opened in 1979, Highway 28 acted as the main access to Port Hardy and various other communities on the northern tip of the Island (in the Regional District of Mount Waddington), aided by a system of local logging roads leading from the highway to the various north Island communities.

History

Originally a logging road that connected to Highway 19, a few kilometres west of Campbell River, the road split, one alignment going south into Strathcona Park, and the other going west to Gold River, which looped north of Upper Campbell Lake. By 1970 a paved Highway was built over most of the logging road. Abandoning the west logging road, the new highway continued south, reaching the south end of Upper Campbell Lake. A bridge was built over the river between Buttle Lake and Upper Campbell Lake and a stretch of highway was added to where the west logging road connected. The rest of the road that lead to Gold River was subsequently paved. The access to Port Hardy, however, was left unchanged until 1976 when Highway 19 was extended north.

Route details

Highway 28's total length is 99 km (62 mi). Starting in Gold River at the shore of Muchalat Inlet, Highway 28 follows the Gold and Heber Rivers northeast for 24 km (15 mi) before entering Strathcona Provincial Park. The highway winds its way east through the park, following the Elk River, for 17 km (11 mi), then hugs Upper Campbell Lake for another 11 km (6.8 mi) to its junction with the road to Westmin Mines. 37 km later (23 mi), the highway enters the city limits of Campbell River, finally terminating 10 km (6.2 mi) later at a junction with Highways 19 and 19A, in the northern part of the city.

v t e Roads of British Columbia
Provincial highways	1² 1A 2 3² 3A¹ 3B 4 4A 5² 5A 6 7¹ 7B¹ 8 9 10¹ 11² 12 13 14 15¹ 16¹ 17² 17A² 18 19² 19A 20 21 22 22A 23 24 26 27 28 29 30 31 31A 33 35 37 37A 39 41 43 49 52 62 77 91² 91A² 93 95 95A 97² 97A 97B 97C² 97D 99² 101 113 118 395
Other provincially maintained roads	Atlin Road Bridge River Road Cecil Lake Road Chilliwack Lake Road Coalmont Road Columbia Valley Highway Deltaport Way Head Bay Road Hemlock Valley Road Highway 91 Connector Horsefly Road Jesmond Road Likely Road Mission Mountain Road Nazko Road Omineca Resource Road Pavilion Mountain Road Port Mellon Highway Queen Charlotte City–Skidegate Road Strathcona Parkway Telegraph Creek Road Westside Road
Former provincial highways	1A⁴ 1B 7A 17A⁴ 25 97E 97W 99A 99B² 401² 499²
Named highways	Alaska Highway Banff–Windermere Highway Caribou Highway¹ Coquihalla Highway² Crowsnest Highway² Don Phillips Way Heritage Highway Inland Island Highway² International Selkirk Loop¹ John Hart Highway¹ Liard Highway Lougheed Highway¹ Mary Hill Bypass¹ Nisga'a Highway Northern Woods and Water Route Okanagan Connector² Okanagan Highway² Pacific Highway¹ Patricia Bay Highway² Sea to Sky Highway² South Fraser Perimeter Road² Southern Yellowhead Highway² Stewart–Cassiar Highway Sunshine Coast Highway Trans-Canada Highway² Yellowhead Highway¹
Historic roads and trails	Atlin Road Big Bend Highway Cariboo Road Chilkoot Trail Dewdney Trail Dewdney Trunk Road Douglas Road Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail Lillooet Cattle Trail Okanagan Trail Old Cariboo Road Old Yale Road (Grand Trunk Road) Pacific Highway River Trail Whatcom Trail
¹ highways with expressway sections ² highways with expressway and freeway sections ³ highways under construction ⁴ designation reassigned to new route

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