Alberta Highway 22X

Highway 22X
Calgary area with Highway 22X highlighted in red
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 →

Provincial highways in Alberta

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 22X, commonly referred to as Highway 22X, is an east-west highway in Alberta, Canada. It is a spur of Highway 22, a north-south highway.

Highway 22X begins at Highway 22 near Priddis, running east toward Calgary and becoming Spruce Meadows Trail, named after the show jumping facility of the same name that it passes. The highway crosses Macleod Trail (Highway 2A) and becomes concurrent with Stoney Trail (Highway 201). It crosses the Bow River, then Deerfoot Trail, and the concurrency ends when Stoney Trail branches north and Highway 22X continues east to its end at Highway 24 east of Calgary, continuing to Gleichen as Highway 901.

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 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 88 Street as Stoney Trail and the province also re-designated 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.