Anthony Henday Drive

Anthony Henday Drive
Highway 216
Route information
Maintained by Volker Stevin, Carmacks, Lafarge[lower-alpha 1]
Length:	77.23 km[1] (47.99 mi)
History:	1990 (construction begins) 1992 (first segment open) 2016 (ring completed)
Component highways:	Hwy 216 (Unsigned: Hwy 2, Hwy 14)[lower-alpha 2]
Major junctions
Ring road around Edmonton
	Calgary Tr / Gateway Blvd Whitemud Drive Stony Plain Rd / 100 Ave Hwy 16 near St. Albert St. Albert Trail Hwy 15 / Manning Drive Hwy 16 near Sherwood Park Sherwood Park Fwy Whitemud Drive Hwy 14
Location
Specialized and rural municipalities:	Strathcona County
Major cities:	Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park
Highway system
Provincial highways in Alberta ← Stoney Hwy 500 →

Anthony Henday Drive is a 77 km (48 mi) freeway that encircles Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Designated as Highway 216 over its entire length, it is a heavily travelled commuter and truck bypass route, with the southwest quadrant serving as a portion of the critical CANAMEX Corridor linking Canada to the United States and Mexico. Traffic levels quickly increased as sections of the freeway were completed; it is now one of the busiest in Western Canada carrying over 105,000 vehicles per day at its busiest point in west Edmonton. Calgary Trail/Gateway Boulevard is designated as the starting point of the loop, with exit numbers increasing clockwise across the North Saskatchewan River to the Cameron Heights neighbourhood, then north past Whitemud Drive, Stony Plain Road and Yellowhead Trail to St. Albert. It continues east past 97 Street to Manning Drive, then south across the North Saskatchewan River a second time. Entering Strathcona County, it again crosses Yellowhead Trail before passing Sherwood Park and Whitemud Drive. Continuing south to Highway 14, the road re-enters southeast Edmonton and turns west to complete the ring.

The freeway was named after 18th century explorer Anthony Henday, one of the first European men to explore central Alberta. Its designation of 216 is derived from its bypass linkages to Edmonton's two major crossroads, Highways 2 and 16. Anthony Henday Drive is the first free-flowing orbital road in Canada after construction finished in late 2016 at a total cost of approximately $4.3 billion over a period of 26 years. Planning of the ring began in the 1950s, followed by design work and initial land acquisition in the 1970s, and construction of the first expressway segment beginning in 1990.

Route description

Overview

Anthony Henday Drive is a "barrier-free, illuminated, high speed, free-flow, fully access controlled facility" with a posted speed limit of 100 km/h (62 mph) for its entire length around Edmonton,^[2] the first ring road of its type in Canada.^[3] The majority of Capital Region residents reside within the approximate 20 km (12 mi) diameter of the ring and there is extensive suburban development in close proximity to Henday.^[4] Edmonton is a physically larger city than both Toronto and Montreal, but has a relatively low population density; some have argued that the freeway is a significant contributor to urban sprawl.^[5] The city also lacks a free-flowing north-south route, further increasing traffic levels on Anthony Henday Drive.^[6]

The roads travels primarily through suburban residential areas in the south and west of the city, and rural farm lands and wetlands in the north.^[7] The eastern section of the road separates the Sherwood Park portion of Refinery Row and other industrial and commercial developments in Edmonton to the west, from the balance of Sherwood Park to the east.

At its widest point east of Edmonton between Whitemud Drive and Sherwood Park Freeway, Anthony Henday Drive is eight total lanes wide which includes three main travel lanes in each direction plus a fourth lane allowing traffic to merge onto and exit from the roadway. The highest number of through lanes is seven, between Aurum Road and 153 Avenue in northeast Edmonton.^[2] The entire road is paved with asphalt, except for an experimental 14.4 km (8.9 mi) concrete segment in southwest Edmonton, the first of its type in the province.^[8] Alberta Transportation intended for the section to have lower long-term maintenance costs, but only six years after construction it required significant repairs.^[9] Concrete was not considered for subsequent sections of the road, but overall it was deemed to be a successful experiment that would net long term savings.^[4]

The interchange of Anthony Henday Drive and Yellowhead Trail east of Edmonton is a hybrid design with high capacity third level flyovers

In Strathcona County southeast of Edmonton, a short 2 km (1.2 mi) section of Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) between Whitemud Drive and Highway 14 is concurrent with Highway 14. In west Edmonton, Anthony Henday Drive is concurrent with Highway 2 for 6.8 km (4.2 mi) between Whitemud Drive and Yellowhead Trail. Both concurrencies are unsigned; the only route shield that appears on Anthony Henday Drive is 216.^[1][6]

Interchanges

Alberta Transportation used several different interchange designs for the freeway, the most common being the partial cloverleaf ranging from four to six total ramps. This type of interchange is ideal for connections between freeways and arterial roads; they have a higher capacity than diamond interchanges, but do not have the weaving and merging problems of full cloverleaf interchanges. Loop ramps are also used to better conform to existing terrain or structures, or to increase merge/weave distances between closely spaced interchanges.^[10] For example, they were used at 91 Street to achieve at least 600 m (2,000 ft) of separation to Gateway Boulevard, which would not have been possible with a conventional diamond.^[11] A hybrid interchange commonly called the cloverstack is constructed at the most major junctions. They allow for high speed left turns on elevated directional ramps at a posted speed limit of either 70 km/h (43 mph) or 80 km/h (50 mph), but retain loop ramps for the lesser used left turn movements significantly reducing cost and overall size of the interchange because fourth level flyovers are not required like in a stack interchange.^[2][12]

Traffic

The busiest section of Anthony Henday Drive is in west Edmonton between 87 Avenue and Stony Plain Road where it carries over 105,000 vehicles per day, second only to Whitemud Drive among Edmonton roadways.^[13] The 4-lane section of the southwest quadrant between Calgary Trail and Whitemud Drive is significantly over capacity and sees major delays during peak periods.^[14] A contributing factor is the close proximity of interchanges between the North Saskatchewan River and Yellowhead Trail, which creates a problem known as weaving in which high volumes of traffic are trying to simultaneously enter and exit the roadway at the same time. Traffic levels on Henday have risen much more quickly than anticipated. Alberta Transportation concedes that in 2001 the southwest section was projected to reach 40,000 vehicles per day by 2020 but reached that mark in 2009; as of 2015 it carries approximately 80,000 vehicles per day in the vicinity of 111 Street.^[13] Despite this, project manager Bill van der Meer has stated that Henday is operating efficiently, aside from peak hour congestion.^[4] Planning is underway to determine which sections should be prioritized for widening.^[4]

Alberta Transportation publishes yearly traffic volume data for provincial highways.^[13] The table below compares the AADT at several locations along Anthony Henday Drive using data from 2000, 2010 and 2015, expressed as an average daily vehicle count over the span of a year (AADT). Data has not yet been provided for the northeast quadrant of the road between Manning Drive and Yellowhead Trail which opened in late 2016.

Traffic volumes^[13]

Location		Edmonton						Strathcona County
Section		127 St. – Hwy. 28	Hwy. 16 – R. Gibbon Dr.	87 Ave. – Stony Plain Rd.	N. SK. River (Southwest)	Calgary Tr. – 111 St.	50 St. – 91 St.	Yellowhead Tr. – Baseline Rd.	S. Park Fwy. – Whitemud Dr.
Traffic volume (AADT)
	2000			21,980				26,200	19,590
	2010			53,540	43,450	50,160	45,550	42,840	48,850
	2015	42,700	59,350	105,370	76,340	80,050	64,430	45,510	50,380

Through lane count (excluding 'exit only' lanes)

Section	Hwy 14 – 50 St.	50 St. – 91 St.	91 St. – Whitemud^[i]	Whitemud – 87 Ave.	87 Ave. – St. Albert Tr.	St. Albert Tr. – Victoria Tr.	Victoria Tr. – 153 Ave.	130 Ave. – Aurum Rd.	Aurum Rd. – Hwy 14
Clockwise	2	3	2	3	3	2	3	4	3
Counter-clockwise	2	3	2	2	3	2	3	3	3
^↑In this table, Whitemud refers to the interchange of Whitemud Drive in west Edmonton, not the junction in Strathcona County east of Edmonton.

History

Early plans

Twin bridge structures each carry two lanes of Anthony Henday Drive over the North Saskatchewan River in southwest Edmonton; each can be widened to four lanes on the existing piers.^{[lower-alpha 3]}

The road is named after Isle of Wight explorer Anthony Henday, who travelled up the North Saskatchewan River to the area now known as Edmonton in the 18th century on a mission for the Hudson's Bay Company.^[16][17] Plans for a ring road around Edmonton began developing in the 1950s when the Edmonton Regional Planning Commission identified a need for the road to support future development in the Edmonton area, as well as the movement of goods and services around the province. Areas around the city that could potentially interfere with this growth were retained by the province and called a Restricted Development Area.^[7] In 1972, Edmonton City Council recommended that the city ask for the province to pay for the ring road.^[18] Shortly thereafter, the Alberta provincial government led by Premier Peter Lougheed continued land acquisitions to assemble a transportation utility corridor (TUC).^[19] Plans had evolved to provide right of way for future overhead high-voltage transmission lines, underground gas and oil pipelines, and water/storm sewer lines.^[20] By 1985, a study had been completed to plot an exact alignment of Anthony Henday Drive through the TUC and by the end of the decade most of the required land had been purchased from land owners.^[7] Unused land within the corridor may be leased out by the government as a source of revenue,^[21] but some landowners were unhappy that the province did not have a firm timeline for Henday's construction.^[22]

South construction

With its CANAMEX designation,^[23] the southwest quadrant of the ring was deemed to be the highest priority for construction, bypassing Edmonton to the southwest by connecting Highways 2 and 16.^[24] The first section of the bypass to be completed was from Whitemud Drive north to Stony Plain Road; it was constructed by the City of Edmonton beginning in 1990, and was completed in 1992 prior to the province taking over responsibility of the project.^[25] An additional 4 km (2.5 mi) extending the road north to Yellowhead Trail was completed by 1998.

Looking west toward Gateway Blvd from 91 Street. At the left, eastbound traffic from Highway 2 merges with traffic destined to 91 Street before joining the freeway

Construction then shifted south, with completion of the road from Whitemud Drive south to 45 Avenue just north of what is currently the Lessard Road interchange. The next section to be completed was key, extending the road on expandable twin bridge structures across the North Saskatchewan River to Terwillegar Drive on November 8, 2005.^[26] An extension further east to Calgary Trail was completed by October 2006, creating a full southwest bypass of Edmonton.^[27] A $168 million interchange that included seven bridges was constructed at Stony Plain Road,^[28] and the entire quadrant became free-flowing in late 2011 after the completion of smaller interchanges at Lessard Road, Callingwood Road, and Cameron Heights Drive.^[29] A flyover was originally planned on the western leg at 69 Avenue before it was ultimately scrapped by Alberta Transportation.^[30] The total cost of the entire 24 km (15 mi) southwest quadrant from Yellowhead Trail to Gateway Boulevard was $577 million.^[4]

In 2003, Alberta began design work for the 11 km (6.8 mi) southeastern section from Gateway Boulevard to Highway 14. Unlike the southwest portion, the province announced its intention to construct the road via a public-private partnership (P3), also known as a design-build-operate project.^[31] This method of construction presented millions of dollars in savings to Alberta taxpayers, and allowed the project to be completed on an accelerated timeline because the consolidation of various sub-contracts are managed by one entity allowing for increased efficiencies. On January 25, 2005, Alberta signed a $493 million contract with a consortium called Access Roads to build the road and maintain it for 30 years.^[31] Construction began in April and was completed in October 2007. The new segment included 24 bridge structures and 5 interchanges, and connected Highway 14 to Yellowhead Trail in the west effectively creating a full southern bypass of Edmonton. It also provided an important link for the quickly growing southern communities of Ellserlie and Summerside to the rest of Edmonton's road network.^[31]

North construction and completion

Construction overview[1]
Quadrant	Length (km)	Completed (free-flowing)[lower-alpha 4]	Cost (billions)
SE	10.5	2007	0.493
SW	24.5	2011	0.577
NW	21.4	2011	1.42
NE	21.5	2016	1.81
Total	78	2016	4.3

Construction of an interim segment from Yellowhead Trail in the west to 137 Avenue was the first to be completed, as part of St. Albert's Ray Gibbon Drive project. Full work on the entire 21 km (13 mi) of the northwest leg from Yellowhead Trail to Manning Drive (Highway 15) was initiated in early 2008 after Alberta's signing of a $1.42 billion P3 agreement with Northwestconnect General Partnership to build and maintain the road for 30 years.^[32] Construction began in September 2008, described by then Premier Ed Stelmach as "an important step in meeting our provincial goal of completing the ring roads to a freeway status by 2015.”^[33] The project included the construction of two large cloverstack interchanges, one each at Yellowhead Trail and Manning Drive. Seven other smaller interchanges were also constructed, as well as five flyovers and two rail crossings. Three lanes each way were built from Yellowhead Trail to Campbell Road, and two lanes each way from Campbell Road to Manning Drive.^[34] All work was completed on time, and the leg opened to traffic on November 1, 2011.^[35]

In May 2012, Alberta signed a $1.81 billion P3 contract with Capital City Link General Partnership to build and maintain the final 9 km (5.6 mi) northeast segment of Anthony Henday Drive for 30 years after construction, from Manning Drive to Yellowhead Trail east of Edmonton in Strathcona County. A sod turning ceremony was held on July 16 and construction was underway.^[36] Significant reconstruction was done to the existing section of the road east of Edmonton from Yellowhead Trail south to Highway 14 that had been in place since at least the early 1960s.^[37] It was formerly known as Highway 14X, the "X" denoting that the route was an extension of Highway 14. Prior to the completion of Whitemud Drive at the end of the 1990s, Highway 14 followed a more northerly alignment through Edmonton on Sherwood Park Freeway.^[38]

Berms were used for construction of bridges over the environmentally sensitive North Saskatchewan River in northeast Edmonton, first on the river's south bank, then the north bank seen here in 2014.

As part of the reconstruction, several bridges constructed between 1965 and 1974 were demolished.^[37] They spanned Anthony Henday Drive at Yellowhead Trail, Baseline Road and Sherwood Park Freeway and were removed to make way for updated structures that would allow the freeway underneath to be widened to six lanes and further expanded to eight lanes or more in the future.^[2][39] A bridge built in 1969 carrying Broadmoor Blvd over Yellowhead Trail^[37] was also demolished because it was not at the required elevation for the new interchange configuration.^[40] Yellowhead Trail from the North Saskatchewan River to Clover Bar Road was significantly improved and widened, as was Sherwood Park Freeway from 17 St to Ordze Road/Crescent in Sherwood Park.^[41]

Overall, the project included the construction of nine interchanges, two road flyovers, eight rail flyovers, and twin bridges over the North Saskatchewan River for a total of 47 bridge structures.^[2] Underneath the southbound bridge over the river, a pedestrian crossing was constructed and is integrated into the existing Edmonton path system. An extensive environmental assessment was also completed which identified the need for a wildlife crossing at the river, which was constructed. Noise analysis based on projected traffic volumes was also completed.^[7] On October 1, 2016, the northeast leg of the freeway was officially opened to traffic.^[42] Major construction on Sherwood Park Freeway and Yellowhead Trail was also largely complete including all new lanes and ramps. Only minor aesthetic work remained such as landscaping, completion of mechanically stabilized earth walls, and painting of wing walls, piers, and abutments.^[43]

Future

The road was built such that it could be widened at minimal cost, with almost all bridges built wide enough for expansion to the ultimate stage which includes as many as six main travel lanes in one direction, depending on location.^[44][45] Alberta has plans to widen the southwest leg of the road, which is well over capacity, but the plans are currently unfunded until at least 2020.^[14][46] Plans include widening both directions from 2 to 3 travel lanes in the congested southwest section between Highway 2 and Whitemud Drive, as well as the more extensive work required to widen the bridges over the North Saskatchewan River and Wedgewood Ravine which are currently 2 lanes of travel per bridge each way.^[46] In 2015, city councillor Michael Oshry stated that he was unhappy with the way the road was initially constructed, and Alberta should have done a better job of anticipating the rapid growth in southwest Edmonton.^[4] Project manager Bill van der Meer disagreed, saying, "If we built a six-lane divided road that was virtually empty for 10 years, that wouldn’t be money well spent."^[4]

The widest section of Anthony Henday Drive carries seven through lanes between Aurum Rd and 153 Ave.

As part of initial construction, grading was been completed for several future interchanges/flyovers and higher capacity directional ramps at existing interchanges, to reduce construction time and costs for those structures when traffic volumes require them.^[34] For example, the directional ramps constructed at the northwest Henday/Yellowhead Trail interchange were built one lane wide initially, but all bridge decks are wide enough to accommodate a second lane.^[44] Edmonton proposes to upgrade Terwillegar Drive to a freeway at an estimated cost of $1 billion, after which two directional ramps are proposed; they would carry traffic from northbound Terwillegar Drive to westbound Anthony Henday Drive, and from southbound to eastbound.^[47] On November 1, 2016, Alberta announced the intended closure of the right-in/right-out access at 127 Street in southwest Edmonton, citing safety concerns.^[48] However, in the following days, Edmonton requested that the access remain open indefinitely until alternatives were explored and the province agreed.^[49] An interchange to replace this access is planned for the future, but has no funding nor an estimated completion date.^[48] In the southeast, a directional ramp from eastbound Whitemud Drive to northbound Anthony Henday Drive is proposed, when traffic volumes warrant its construction.^[50]

To meet long-term requirements, Alberta Transportation also proposes to construct a high capacity directional ramp carrying traffic from eastbound Anthony Henday Dive to northbound Ray Gibbon Drive after the latter is twinned and upgraded to an freeway.^[51] Ray Gibbon Drive is proposed as a major corridor that will carry the Highway 2 designation in the future.^[52] One kilometre further down the road at 137 Avenue, grading was initially completed for a partial cloverleaf interchange but in 2008 Alberta elected not to spend $7 million to complete paving of the ramps because development did not yet require it. St. Albert mayor Nolan Crouse was unhappy with the decision, stating that his city would not pay for it either. "It's going to sit there until there's another plan, and right now we don't have a plan... we have taken the position that we think it's the province's responsibility, and they say they won't," Crouse said.^[53] As of 2016, there is no timeline for completion of the interchange.

Alberta proposes to construct a second ring road around Edmonton to support future growth, approximately 8 km (5 mi) beyond Anthony Henday Drive.^[54] The road would not be constructed for roughly 40 years, and could cost upwards of $11 billion. Parkland County mayor Rod Shaigec voiced his support for the plan, stating, “if we don’t implement and have another ring road, it’s going to be further traffic congestion and have environmental impacts as well.”^[55] Edmonton mayor Don Iveson calls the plan a bad idea, instead favouring expansion to Light Rail Transit and upgrades to existing roadways in the Edmonton area such as Yellowhead Trail. Both projects could be completed for the cost of the proposed outer ring road.^[54]

Exit list

Exit numbering begins at Calgary Trail and increases clockwise.

Location	km[56][57]	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Anthony Henday Drive continues east towards 91 Street and Highway 14.
Edmonton	0.0	0.0	78A 78B	Gateway Boulevard north (Hwy 2) – City Centre Calgary Trail south (Hwy 2) – Airport, Red Deer, Calgary	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°26′15″N 113°29′25″W / 53.4374°N 113.4904°W
	1.5	0.93	Crosses Blackmud Creek — Coordinates: 53°26′06″N 113°30′46″W / 53.4349°N 113.5129°W
	2.0	1.2	2	111 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Recommended eastbound access to Ellerslie Road. Coordinates: 53°26′05″N 113°31′11″W / 53.4347°N 113.5196°W
	3.3	2.1	3	119 Street	Right-in/right-out (westbound only). Coordinates: 53°26′02″N 113°32′27″W / 53.4338°N 113.5409°W
	3.4	2.1	3	127 Street	Right-in/right-out (eastbound only). Coordinates: 53°26′02″N 113°32′27″W / 53.4338°N 113.5409°W
	5.0	3.1	Crosses Whitemud Creek — Coordinates: 53°25′43″N 113°33′47″W / 53.4287°N 113.5631°W
	6.4	4.0	6	Rabbit Hill Road	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°25′50″N 113°34′58″W / 53.4306°N 113.5828°W
	8.3	5.2	8	Terwillegar Drive	Diamond interchange. Cloverstack proposed as part of Terwillegar Drive upgrade to a freeway.[47] Coordinates: 53°26′39″N 113°36′01″W / 53.4442°N 113.6003°W
	5.0	3.1	Crosses the North Saskatchewan River — Coordinates: 53°27′36″N 113°36′54″W / 53.4599°N 113.6149°W
	11.7	7.3	12	Maskêkosihk Trail (to Hwy 627 west) Cameron Heights Drive	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°28′00″N 113°37′53″W / 53.4666°N 113.6315°W
	14.1	8.8	14	Lessard Road	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°28′48″N 113°39′30″W / 53.4800°N 113.6584°W
	15.6	9.7	16	Callingwood Road 62 Avenue	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°29′39″N 113°39′34″W / 53.4943°N 113.6594°W
	17.6	10.9	18A 18B	Whitemud Drive east (Hwy 2 south) Whitemud Drive west (to Hwy 628 west)	Partial cloverleaf interchange. South end of Hwy 2 unsigned concurrency Coordinates: 53°30′44″N 113°39′33″W / 53.5122°N 113.6593°W
	18.8	11.7	19	Webber Greens Drive 87 Avenue – West Edmonton Mall	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°31′22″N 113°39′33″W / 53.5228°N 113.6592°W
	20.5	12.7	21	Stony Plain Road west (Hwy 16A) – Spruce Grove, Stony Plain 100  Avenue east – City Centre	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°32′23″N 113°39′33″W / 53.5398°N 113.6591°W
	22.4	13.9	22	109 Avenue	Right-in/right-out (southbound only). Coordinates: 53°33′18″N 113°39′32″W / 53.5549°N 113.6590°W
	22.5	14.0	22	111 Avenue	Right-in/right-out (northbound only). Coordinates: 53°33′24″N 113°39′33″W / 53.5567°N 113.6591°W
	24.5	15.2	25	Yellowhead Trail (Hwy 16 to Hwy 43; Exit 378) – Jasper, Grand Prairie	Cloverstack interchange. North end of Hwy 2 unsigned concurrency. Coordinates: 53°34′25″N 113°39′42″W / 53.5737°N 113.6616°W
	26.7	16.6	27	Ray Gibbon Drive – St. Albert 184 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Cloverstack interchange proposed.[44] Coordinates: 53°35′29″N 113°38′46″W / 53.5914°N 113.6462°W
	30.8	19.1	31	St. Albert Trail (Hwy 2) – St. Albert, Athabasca (Mark Messier Trail)	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°37′01″N 113°36′03″W / 53.6170°N 113.6007°W
	32.9	20.4	33	Campbell Road – St. Albert	Diamond interchange. Coordinates: 53°37′45″N 113°34′36″W / 53.6292°N 113.5766°W
	35.3	21.9	35	127 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°38′20″N 113°32′43″W / 53.6390°N 113.5453°W
	39.0	24.2	39	97 Street (Hwy 28 to Hwy 63) – City Centre, Cold Lake, Fort McMurray	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°38′49″N 113°29′28″W / 53.6469°N 113.4912°W
	42.4	26.3	43	66 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°38′47″N 113°26′20″W / 53.6464°N 113.4390°W
	45.7	28.4	46	Manning Drive (Hwy 15 to Hwy 28A) – Fort Saskatchewan, Fort McMurray	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°38′06″N 113°23′38″W / 53.6351°N 113.3940°W
	48.7	30.3	49	153 Avenue	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°37′02″N 113°21′33″W / 53.6173°N 113.3593°W
	49.8	30.9	Crosses the North Saskatchewan River — Coordinates: 53°36′30″N 113°21′14″W / 53.6083°N 113.3540°W
	52.2	32.4	52	Aurum Road	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°35′14″N 113°20′43″W / 53.5873°N 113.3453°W
Strathcona County	54.1	33.6	54	Yellowhead Trail (Hwy 16; Exit 400) – Sherwood Park, Lloydminster	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°34′12″N 113°20′42″W / 53.5701°N 113.3449°W
	57.4	35.7	58	Baseline Road / 101 Avenue – Sherwood Park, Edmonton	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°32′25″N 113°20′34″W / 53.5404°N 113.3427°W
	60.4	37.5	61A 61B	Sherwood Park Freeway – Edmonton Wye Road (Hwy 630) – Sherwood Park	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°30′46″N 113°20′39″W / 53.5129°N 113.3441°W
	63.8	39.6	64A 64B	Whitemud Drive west (Hwy 14) – Edmonton Hwy 628 east (Township Road 522)	Full cloverleaf interchange. North end of unsigned Hwy 14 concurrency. Coordinates: 53°28′58″N 113°20′34″W / 53.4829°N 113.3427°W
	67.0	41.6	67	Hwy 14 east – Camrose, Wainwright	Semi-directional T interchange. South end of unsigned Hwy 14 concurrency Coordinates: 53°27′12″N 113°20′42″W / 53.4532°N 113.3449°W
Edmonton	69.4	43.1	70	17 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°26′19″N 113°22′09″W / 53.4385°N 113.3691°W
	72.8	45.2	73	50 Street (to Hwy 814 south) – Beaumont	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Coordinates: 53°26′08″N 113°25′05″W / 53.4356°N 113.4180°W
	76.0	47.2	76	91 Street	Partial cloverleaf interchange. Recommended westbound access to Ellerslie Road. Coordinates: 53°26′15″N 113°28′00″W / 53.4374°N 113.4668°W
	77.6 0.0	48.2 0.0	78A 78B	Gateway Boulevard north (Hwy 2) – City Centre Calgary Trail south (Hwy 2) – Airport, Red Deer, Calgary	Cloverstack interchange. Coordinates: 53°26′15″N 113°29′25″W / 53.4374°N 113.4904°W
Anthony Henday Drive continues west towards 111 Street and Terwillegar Drive.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access

See also

• Stoney Trail
• Circle Drive
• Perimeter Highway

Notes

1. Various consortiums were awarded the public–private partnership (P3) contracts for construction of the southeast, northwest, and northwest legs of Anthony Henday Drive. For the duration of the contracts, a maintenance subcontractor of each consortium is responsible for the highway. The southwest leg was not constructed via a P3 contract, so maintenance is directly contracted by Alberta Transportation.
2. The entire freeway is designated as Highway 216. The short concurrencies with Highways 2 and 14 are both unsigned. In west Edmonton, Anthony Henday Drive is officially designated as Highway 2 (in addition to 216) between Whitemud Drive and Yellowhead Trail (exits 18-25). In Strathcona County east of Edmonton, Anthony Henday Drive is designated as Highway 14 between Whitemud Drive and Highway 14 (exits 64-67).^[1]
3. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Transportation Association of Canada in 2005 analyzed the construction of the bridges.^[15]
4. Segments of the southwest leg had been open since 1992, but it was not a freeway for its entire length until completion of the final interchange in 2011.^[29]

References

1. "2016 Provincial Highway 1-216 Progress Chart" (PDF). Alberta Transportation. March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 12, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
2. "Schedule 18 - Technical Requirements (Northeast)" (PDF). Alberta Transportation. 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
3. Taylor, Aaron (August 15, 2013). "A year of Henday construction done". Fort Saskatchewan Record. Sun Media. Retrieved September 15, 2013. ...the Henday into a complete ring, making it the first road of its kind in Canada.
4. Barnes, Dan (September 26, 2015). "Weekend read: Life in the slow lane, the saga of the Southwest Henday". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
5. For a 2012 report analyzing the construction of infrastructure near the outskirts of the city, see Hoang, Linda (May 10, 2012). "Urban sprawl to cost city $1.2 billion: report". CTV News. Archived from the original on October 15, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016. ...there has been an increased [real estate] interest in areas on the fringes of the city. Urban sprawl... is set to cost the city $1.2 billion, according to a new report...
   • For a 2016 report, see Tumilty, Ryan (March 17, 2016). "Edmonton sprawl will cost $1.4 billion more than it will bring in". Edmonton Metro News. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
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11. "Schedule 18 - Technical Requirements (Southeast)" (PDF). Alberta Transportation. October 22, 2004. p. 37. Retrieved October 12, 2016. The absolute minimum weaving distance on the mainline facility will be 600 m, based on attaining a minimum Level of Service C (as defined in Alberta Transportation Highway Geometric Design Guide).
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External links

Route map: Bing / Google

• Alberta Transportation - Edmonton Ring Road
• Capital City Link Group - Northeast Anthony Henday Drive