Driving from Toronto to Edmonton

[damngrumpy]

The other way after going to Thunder Bay and Winnipeg is to drive into Saskatchewan and from Regina go north.
You will get onto Highway 16 the Yellowhead route and it takes you right into Edmonton, done that before it is a
good alternate route.

 

[lone wolf]

Through Ontario in winter, you're probably safer to take Hwy 11 and stay inland. Hills and lake effect snow make for some tricky driving - and 17 gets closed between Batchewana and Wawa frequently.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

EXPERIENCE! That is what makes me qualified.

No doubt, but you missed the key point so your qualifications don't matter. Both the OP from 2006 and the more recent post #17 from another poster asking essentially the same question were clear that neither of them wanted to enter U.S. territory, and I can think of good reasons why some people might not want to or might not be able to. Telling them they should anyway isn't good advice and doesn't help them.

 

[Tonington]

Hello everyone, I have a planning to go toronto from edmonton by car the first week of January 2011.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it appears to me, that manzurshamsi wants to travel east, not west. The directions so far have been from east to west...

 

[YukonJack]

No doubt, but you missed the key point so your qualifications don't matter. Both the OP from 2006 and the more recent post #17 from another poster asking essentially the same question were clear that neither of them wanted to enter U.S. territory, and I can think of good reasons why some people might not want to or might not be able to. Telling them they should anyway isn't good advice and doesn't help them.

Some people would refuse drive through the States, because they are, plain and simple, Anti-American. I could name at least a half a dozen of those on this forum.

edmontonewbie gave no reason why he would be reluctant to enter U.S. territory.

 

[DaSleeper]

Some people would refuse drive through the States, because they are, plain and simple, Anti-American. I could name at least a half a dozen of those on this forum.

edmontonewbie gave no reason why he would be reluctant to enter U.S. territory.

Maybe because it would be shorter....anyway...it's a moot point because in 2006 edmontonnewbie when he got to Thunderbay, he took highway 11 instead of 17, stopped at Mcdonald on the highway in Kapuskasing got a job there and is now manager of the place...........so there:lol:

 

[YukonJack]

Maybe because it would be shorter....anyway...it's a moot point because in 2006 edmontonnewbie when he got to Thunderbay, he took highway 11 instead of 17, stopped at Mcdonald on the highway in Kapuskasing got a job there and is now manager of the place...........so there:lol:

Not to be sticky, but Hwy 11 and 17 split at Nipigon, not Thunder Bay.

 

[lone wolf]

...and for the more recent guy leaving from Toronto, it doesn't matter. He'll have to make his decision between Barrie and Orillia

 

[YukonJack]

...and for the more recent guy leaving from Toronto, it doesn't matter

Only that Toronto to Nipigon via #17 is 65 kilometers shorter than via #11.

 

[lone wolf]

Have you done it in winter? 17 was closed between Batchawana and Wawa again last night.

 

[YukonJack]

Have you done it in winter? 17 was closed between Batchawana and Wawa again last night.

Yes, lone wolf (sigh) I did many times. And in the Winter I would (and actually next week I will) take the Northern Route.

I just pointed out a fact.