Alberta Highway 663 Explained

Province:AB
Type:Hwy
Route:663
Maint:Alberta Transportation
Map:Alberta Highway 663.png
Established:1964
Direction A:West
Direction B:East
Section1:West segment
Length Km1:153
Terminus A1: in Fawcett
Terminus B1: west of Lac La Biche
Junction1:
Section2:East segment
Length Km2:40
Terminus A2: east of Lac La Biche
Terminus B2:Torchwood Lake
Rural Municipalities:Westlock County, Athabasca County, Lac La Biche County
Cities:Boyle, Lac La Biche
Previous Type:Hwy
Previous Route:661
Next Type:Hwy
Next Route:665

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 663 is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs west-east from Highway 44 near Fawcett, runs concurrent with Highway 2 and Highway 63 to Boyle. Then to a concurrency with Highway 55 (Northern Woods and Water Route) in Lac La Biche before extending north around Lakeland Provincial Park to Torchwood Lake. It is also known as Taylor Road in Boyle, and 88 Avenue in Lac La Biche.

History

In the 1940s the roads that become Secondary Highways were only dirt trails. Farmers would have to use axes to clear the brush of the boreal forest from the road allowance, and use plows and machinery pulled by horses to maintain the roads and fill in low spots that filled with water during spring melt and summer rains. These were not all weather roads, there were no snow ploughs to keep the roads clear over the winter months, so in the 1950s the larger farm trucks could only make it through a few months of the year. By 1957, the road saw an application of gravel to the surface, and was graded. A formal surveying crew came through in 1963 to clear brush and mark the path of the highway which was constructed in 1964.[1]

Major intersections

Starting from the west end of Highway 663:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lac La Biche Heritage Society . Lac La Biche Yesterday and today . Our Roots . University of Calgary . 2006 . 62 . 2009-11-05.