Steeles Avenue | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peel Regional Road 15 Halton Regional Road 8 |
|||||||
Steeles in Toronto and York Region
|
|||||||
Route information | |||||||
Maintained by City of Toronto Region of Peel Region of Halton |
|||||||
Length: | 77.3 km (48.0 mi) | ||||||
Major junctions | |||||||
West end: | Appleby Line | ||||||
Former Highway 25 Trafalgar Road Winston Churchill Boulevard Mississauga Road Mavis Road / Chinguacousy Road Hurontario Street / Main Street Highway 410 Dixie Road Airport Road Highway 50 / Albion Road Highway 27 Islington Avenue Weston Road Highway 400 Jane Street Keele Street Dufferin Street Bathurst Street Yonge Street Bayview Avenue Don Mills Road Highway 404 / Woodbine Avenue Warden Avenue Kennedy Road McCowan Road Markham Road Ninth Line |
|||||||
East end: | Scarborough-Pickering Townline / York-Durham Line (Continues as Taunton Road) | ||||||
Location | |||||||
Major cities: |
Toronto Vaughan Markham Brampton |
||||||
Towns: |
Milton Halton Hills |
||||||
Highway system | |||||||
|
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city limit of Toronto and the southern limit of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It stretches 77.3 km (48.0 mi) across the western and central Greater Toronto Area from Appleby Line, in the Town of Milton east to the Toronto/Pickering limits where it changes its name to Taunton Road, which itself extends 58 km (36 mi) across the length of Durham Region to the Northumberland County line. It is named after J. C. Steele, who owned the Green Bush Hotel on the northwest corner of the street's intersection with Yonge Street. York Region refers to Steeles Avenue as Regional Road 95, but the designation is strictly internal and there are no signs posted. Steeles in Scarborough was once referred to as Scarborough Town Line.