Manitoba Provincial Road 459
Provincial road in Manitoba, Canada
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Provincial Road 459 (PR 459), known as Grand Valley Road and honorarily as Wokiksuye Ċanku, is a short provincial road in the southwest part of the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Provincial Road 459 | ||||
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| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Department of Infrastructure | ||||
| Length | 9.5 km (5.9 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1966–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  PTH 1 (TCH) at Grand Valley Provincial Park | |||
| East end |  PTH 10 (18th Street N.) in Brandon | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | Canada | |||
| Province | Manitoba | |||
| Rural municipalities | ||||
| Major cities | Brandon | |||
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Route description
Provincial Road 459 is an east–west route and runs from the Trans-Canada Highway near the Grand Valley Provincial Campground to its terminus at PTH 10 (18th Street North) in Brandon.
PR 459 serves as a feeder route for communities located on the north end of Brandon from the Trans-Canada Highway as well as to the Brandon Experimental Station. The road travels in very close proximity to the Assiniboine River for most of its length, and offers a very scenic alternative route for people travelling in to Brandon as compared to the Trans-Canada Highway or PTH 1A.
Due to its close proximity to the Assiniboine River, a portion of the road was closed when the river overflowed its banks in the spring of 2011. Since then, PR 459 has been subject to spring closures to prevent future flooding incidents.[1]
In 2022, the portion of PR 459 within Brandon's city limits was given the honorary name Wokiksuye Ċanku (Remembrance Road in the Dakota language),[2][3] in honour of children taken to residential schools. The road leads to the site of the former Brandon Indian Residential School.[2]
PR 459 is a paved road for its entire length. The speed limit along this road is 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph).[4]
Major intersections
| Division | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
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| Whitehead | Grand Valley Provincial Park | 0.0 | 0.0 | PTH 1 (TCH) – Regina, Brandon Grand Valley Road | Western terminus; interchange; road continues west as Grand Valley Road | |||
| 0.5 | 0.31 | Grand Valley Provincial Park | Access road into park | |||||
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No major junctions | |||||||
| City of Brandon | 7.9 | 4.9 | 34th Street N (Road 111W) – Brandon Indian Residential School, Brandon Research and Development Centre | |||||
| 9.5 | 5.9 | PTH 10 (18th Street N / John Bracken Highway) – Minnedosa, Brandon Kirkcaldy Drive – Riverbank Discovery Centre | Eastern terminus; road continues east as Kirkcaldy Drive | |||||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | ||||||||