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.

Highway 22X through southern Calgary

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
M.D. of Foothills No. 31	Priddis	0.0	0.0		Hwy 22 (Cowboy Trail) – Turner Valley, Black Diamond, Bragg Creek, Cochrane	Hwy 22X begins
City of Calgary		6.5	4.0		85 Street SW / 144 Street W	Calgary city limits Becomes Spruce Meadows Trail
		11.3	7.0		37 Street SW / 96 Street W	Former Hwy 773 south
		12.4	7.7		Future Hwy 201 north	Future interchange[3]
		13.0	8.1		24 Street SW
		13.9	8.6		Tournament Lane – Spruce Meadows
		14.7	9.1		James Mckevitt Road / Spruce Meadows Way – Spruce Meadows	Future interchange[3]
		16.2	10.1		6 Street SW / Sheriff King Street	Future interchange[3]
		17.4	10.8	5	Macleod Trail (Hwy 2A south) – City Centre, Fort Macleod, Lethbridge	Partial cloverleaf interchange with traffic signals on Hwy 22X. Hwy 201/22X hidden concurrency begins
				Stoney Trail (Hwy 201) east • Hwy 22X becomes unsigned
		19.5	12.1	3	Sun Valley Boulevard / Chaparral Boulevard	Interchange
		20.6	12.8	Crosses Bow River
		21.9	13.6	1	McKenzie Lake Boulevard / Cranston Boulevard	Interchange Eastbound exit, westbound entrance
		23.1	14.4	101	Deerfoot Trail (Hwy 2; Exit 234) – City Centre, Lethbridge	Interchange
		25.1	15.6	99	52 Street SE – South Health Campus	Interchange Westbound access to Cranston and Auburn Bay
		27.8	17.3	96	Stoney Trail (Hwy 201) north 88 Street SE	Interchange Hwy 201 concurrency ends Hwy 22X exits freeway
		31.2	19.4		120 Street SE / Range Road 285	Calgary city limits
Rocky View County	Indus	37.4	23.2		Hwy 791 north – Chestermere Range Road 281A
	​	44.2	27.5		Range Road 273 – Langdon	Former Hwy 797
Wheatland County	​	54.1	33.6		Hwy 24 – Cheadle, Carseland, Vulcan Hwy 901 east – Siksika Nation, Gliechen	Hwy 22X ends
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.