Queen Elizabeth II Highway

Highway 2
Highway 2 highlighted in red
Route information
Length:	1,273 km (791 mi)
Major junctions
South end:	US 89 at U.S. border in Carway
	Hwy 3 in Fort Macleod Hwy 201 in Calgary Hwy 1 (TCH) in Calgary Hwy 11 in Red Deer Hwy 216 in Edmonton Hwy 14 in Edmonton Hwy 16 (TCH) in Edmonton Hwy 55 in Athabasca Hwy 49 near Donnelly Hwy 35 near Grimshaw Hwy 49 in Rycroft
North end:	Hwy 43 near Grande Prairie
Location
Specialized and rural municipalities:	Cardston Willow Creek Foothills Rocky View Mountain View Red Deer Lacombe Ponoka Wetaskiwin Leduc Sturgeon Westlock Athabasca Lesser Slave River Big Lakes Smoky River Northern Sunrise Peace Fairview Birch Hills Spirit River Saddle Hills Grande Prairie
Major cities:	Calgary, Airdrie, Red Deer, Lacombe, Leduc, Edmonton, St. Albert
Highway system
Provincial highways in Alberta ← Hwy 1X Hwy 2A →

Deerfoot Trail
Length:	46 km (29 mi)
South end:	Hwy 2A near De Winton
North end:	Hwy 201, north Calgary

Queen Elizabeth II Highway
Length:	261 km (162 mi)
South end:	Hwy 201, north Calgary
North end:	41 Ave SW, Edmonton

Northern Woods and Water Route
Length:	262 km (163 mi)
West end:	Hwy 2A west of High Prairie
East end:	Hwy 55 in Athabasca

Route map: Google

Provincial highways in Alberta

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 2, commonly referred to as Highway 2 or the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, is a major highway in Alberta, Canada that stretches from the Canada–United States border through Calgary and Edmonton to Grande Prairie. Running primarily north to south for approximately 1,273 kilometres (791 mi), it is the longest and busiest highway in the province carrying nearly 170,000 vehicles per day in central Calgary. Between Edmonton and Fort Macleod, the highway forms a portion of Alberta's Export Highway and the CANAMEX Corridor. More than half of Alberta's 4 million residents live in the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor created by Highway 2.

U.S. Route 89 enters Alberta from Montana and becomes Highway 2, a two-lane road that traverses the foothills of southern Alberta to Fort Macleod where it intersects Highway 3 and becomes divided. In Calgary, the route is a busy freeway named Deerfoot Trail that continues into central Alberta as the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, bypassing Red Deer. In Edmonton, it is briefly concurrent with freeway sections of Highways 216 and 16 before bisecting the city of St. Albert and reverting to two lanes en route to Athabasca. It bends northwest along the south shore of Lesser Slave Lake as the Northern Woods and Water Route into High Prairie, before turning north to Peace River, west to Fairview and finally south to Grande Prairie where it ends at Highway 43.