Alberta Highway 22X

Highway 22X
Route information
Length:	54 km (34 mi)
Major junctions
East end:	Hwy 24 / Hwy 901 near Carseland
	Hwy 2A in Calgary Hwy 201 in Calgary Hwy 2 in Calgary
West end:	Hwy 22 near Priddis
Location
Specialized and rural municipalities:	Wheatland County, Rocky View County, Foothills No. 31 M.D.
Major cities:	Calgary
Highway system
Provincial highways in Alberta ← Hwy 22 Hwy 23 →

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 22X^[1] is an east-west highway in Alberta, Canada. It is a spur of Highway 22, a north-south highway.

Highway 22X goes from the junction of Highway 24 and Highway 901, westerly to the junction of Highway 22 just east of Priddis over a distance of about 54 km (34 mi). It takes the name Marquis of Lorne Trail when it enters Calgary on its southeast side, and subsequently becomes Stoney Trail as it joins the eastern leg of the ring road. It continues over Highway 2 (Deerfoot Trail within Calgary). When the highway crosses Macleod Trail (Highway 2A), it changes its name to Spruce Meadows Trail, after the show jumping facility of the same name that it passes. About 10 km (6.2 mi) after it exits the west end of the city, the 22X ends at Highway 22 just east of the Hamlet of Priddis.

Contemporary issues

Looking east at the west terminus of Alberta Highway 22X from Alberta Highway 22

Until it was upgraded in the 2010s as part of the Stoney Trail ring road project, the Marquis of Lorne Trail portion of Highway 22X had earned a reputation of being an accident-prone road. Southward growth of Calgary had turned the small rural highway (it remained a 2-lane rural arterial road for many years) into an urban street that was not suited for high traffic volumes.

Until the late 1990s, all of Highway 22X within the City of Calgary went by the name "Marquis of Lorne Trail", until the owners of Spruce Meadows successfully lobbied the city to rename the portion west of Macleod Trail after the internationally known show-jumping facility. That portion of 22X is now known as "Spruce Meadows Trail". In 2009, the province announced plans to complete the southeastern portion of the Calgary ring road by extending the still-under-construction East Freeway (or Stoney Trail) south from Highway 1A. This project included major upgrades to the Marquis of Lorne segment of 22X west from approximately 88th Street to Macleod Trail. Completed in late 2013, the upgrade resulted in the City renaming Marquis of Lorne Trail west of 88th Street as Stoney Trail and the province also redesignated the highway as Highway 201 (the designation of the rest of Stoney Trail). As of 2015, the Highway 22X designation remains in place west of Macleod Trail and east of where Stoney Trail turns northward; east of the latter the highway also retains the Marquis of Lorne Trail name.

Major intersections

Rural/specialized municipality	Location	km[2]	mi	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Continues as Hwy 22 north (Cowboy Trail) – Priddis, Bragg Creek, Cochrane
M.D. of Foothills No. 31	Priddis	0	0		Hwy 22 south (Cowboy Trail) – Turner Valley, Black Diamond	Hwy 22X begins
City of Calgary		7	4		85 Street SW / 144 Street W	Calgary city limits Becomes Spruce Meadows Trail
		11	7		37 Street SW / 96 Street W	Former Hwy 773 south
		12	7		Future Hwy 201 north	Future interchange[3]
		13	8		24 Street SW
		14	9		Tournament Lane	Access to Spruce Meadows
		15	9		6 Street SW / Sheriff King Street	Future interchange[3] Access to Spruce Meadows
		17	11	5	Hwy 2A south / Macleod Trail – City Centre, Okotoks, Lethbridge Hwy 201 east (Stoney Trail)	Partial cloverleaf interchange with traffic lights on Hwy 22X. Hwy 201/22X hidden concurrency begins
		Becomes Hwy 201 / Stoney Trail, Hwy 22X becomes unsigned Freeway begins
		19	12	3	Sun Valley Boulevard / Chaparral Boulevard
		21	13	Crosses Bow River
		19	12	1	McKenzie Lake Boulevard / Cranston Boulevard	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		23	14	101	Hwy 2 (Deerfoot Trail) – City Centre, Edmonton, Lethbridge
		25	16	99	52 Street SE – South Health Campus	Westbound access to Cranston and McKenzie Lake
		28	17	96	Hwy 201 north (Stoney Trail) 88 Street SE	Hwy 201 concurrency ends Hwy 22X exits freeway
		31	19		120 Street SE / Range Road 285	Calgary city limits
Rocky View County	Indus	37	23		Hwy 791 north – Chestermere Range Road 281A
		44	27		Range Road 273 – Langdon	Former Hwy 791
Wheatland County		54	34		Hwy 24 – Cheadle, Carseland, Vulcan Hwy 901 east – Siksika Nation, Gliechen	Hwy 22X ends
Continues as Hwy 901 east
Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access       Unopened

See also

• Transportation in Calgary

References

1. Provincial Highways Designation Order, Alberta Transportation, p. 5
2. "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
3. "Southwest Calgary Ring Road". Government of Alberta. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2016.

External links

• 2010 Provincial Highways 1 - 216 Series Progress Chart (map, 8 MB) by Alberta Transportation.