British Columbia Highway 9

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Highway 9

Agassiz-Rosedale Highway, Harrison Hot Springs Road, Haig Highway
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Highway 9 highlighted in red.
Route information
Maintained by British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
Length15.6 km [1]  (9.7 mi)
Existed1953–present
Major junctions
South endBC-1 (TCH).svg Hwy 1 (TCH) near Bridal Falls
Major intersectionsBC-7.svg Hwy 7 in Agassiz
North end Harrison Hot Springs
Location
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Highway system
    BC-8.svg Hwy 8 BC-10.svg Hwy 10

    Highway 9, the Agassiz-Rosedale Highway, is a north-south route in the eastern part of the Fraser Valley. It acts as the last connection between the Trans Canada Highway (Highway 1) and the Lougheed Highway (Highway 7) eastbound before Hope, and is the main access to the resort village of Harrison Hot Springs. The highway first opened in 1953, originally going between Yale Road in Rosedale and Highway 7, with a ferry across the Fraser River. A bridge for Highway 9 across the Fraser opened in 1956. When the section of Highway 1 east of Chilliwack opened in 1961, Highway 9 was extended south to a junction with the new Highway 1 alignment, which replaced Yale Road as the main route between Chilliwack and Hope.

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    Route details

    Northern terminus of Highway 9 in Harrison Hot Springs Time Square - panoramio (1).jpg
    Northern terminus of Highway 9 in Harrison Hot Springs

    Highway 9 is 16 km (10 mi) long. In the south, the Highway starts at an interchange on Highway 1 between Rosedale and the Bridal Falls area. Highway 9 travels north for 2.8 km (1.7 mi) to its 1.9-kilometre-long (1.2 mi) bridge over the Fraser River. After crossing the Fraser, Highway 9 travels north for 2.5 km (1.6 mi) to the centre of Agassiz. On the north side of Agassiz, Highway 9 meets Highway 7, and the two highways share a common alignment for 1.6 km (1.0 mi). Highway 9 then travels 6.4 km (4.0 mi) north to terminate at Harrison Hot Springs.

    Major intersections

    From south to north. The entire route is in the Fraser Valley Regional District.

    Locationkm [1] miDestinationsNotes
    0.000.00BC-1 (TCH).svg Hwy 1 (TCH) (Trans-Canada Highway) Vancouver, Hope Interchange (Hwy 1 Exit 135); Hwy 9 southern terminus
    0.540.34Yale Road Chilliwack Roundabout; former Hwy 1A west
    2.81–
    4.67
    1.75–
    2.90
    Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge crosses the Fraser River
    Kent 5.443.38BC-7.svg Hwy 915:2752 (Agassiz Bypass) to Hwy 7 east Hope Hwy 915:2752 is unsigned
    7.674.77BC-7.svg Hwy 7 east (Lougheed Highway) Hope South end of Hwy 7 concurrency
    9.265.75BC-7.svg Hwy 7 west (Lougheed Highway) Mission, Vancouver North end of Hwy 7 concurrency
    Harrison Hot Springs 15.659.72Esplande RoadHwy 9 northern terminus
    1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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    1. 1 2 Landmark Kilometre Inventory (PDF). British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (Report). Cypher Consulting. July 2016. pp. 209–211. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-11. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
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