Garth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
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Garth Street is an Upper City (mountain) arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It starts off at Beckett Drive, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward where it ends at Twenty Road just east of the Glancaster Golf and Country Club. It is a two-way street
Two-way street
A two-way street is a street that allows vehicles to travel in both directions. On most two-way streets, especially main streets, a line is painted down the middle of the road to remind drivers to stay on their side of the road. Sometimes one portion of a street is two-way, the other portion one-way...

 throughout.

History

Originally, Garth Street was almost given the street name of Upper Dundurn Street because it's in alignment with Dundurn Street
Dundurn Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
Dundurn Street, is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street that starts off at Mountain Face Park, Niagara Escarpment in front of the Bruce Trail as a collector road, right behind Hillcrest Avenue and then turns into a four lane thoroughfare from Aberdeen...

 in Lower City Hamilton.

Landmarks

Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.
  • Bruce Trail
    Bruce Trail
    The Bruce Trail is a hiking trail in southern and central Ontario, Canada.-General:The trail follows the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, one of the thirteen UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves in Canada, for almost...

  • Niagara Escarpment
    Niagara Escarpment
    The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois...

  • Hillfield-Strathallan College
  • Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...

    , "The LINC"
  • Glancaster Golf and Country Club, (On Twenty Road West, just West of Garth Street)

Communities

Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South.
  • Westcliffe/ Mohawk, Garth Street cuts through these two neighbourhoods
  • Buchanan
  • Gilbert/ Rolston, Garth Street cuts through these two neighbourhoods
  • Gilkson/ Gourley, Garth Street cuts through these two neighbourhoods
  • Falkirk East
  • Villages of Glancaster/ Twenty Place, Garth Street cuts through these two neighbourhoods
  • North Glanford

Roads that are parallel with Garth Street

Note: Listing of Roads from West to East.
  • Wilson Street (Ancaster)
  • Highway 403
    Highway 403 (Ontario)
    King's Highway 403, also known as Highway 403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent...

  • Upper Paradise Road
    Upper Paradise Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Paradise Road is an Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just north of Scenic Drive by Cliffview Park and extends southward where it ends just south of Rymal Road beside Carpenter Park...

  • Garth Street
  • West 5th Street
    West 5th Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
    West 5th Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off in the north at James Mountain Road, a mountain-access road, and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends just south of Christopher Drive...

  • Upper James Street
    Upper James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper James Street, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Claremont Access, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward towards the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport where it then changes its name to the Hamilton Port Dover Plain...

  • Upper Wellington Street
    Upper Wellington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Wellington Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Jolley Cut, a mountain-access road to the north, beside Sam Lawrence Park and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends at the Mount Hamilton Cemetery...

  • Upper Wentworth Street
    Upper Wentworth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Wentworth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in the north and extends southward past Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...

  • Upper Sherman Avenue
    Upper Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Sherman Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off north of Concession Street at Mountain Brow Avenue and extends southward where it ends at Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...

  • Upper Gage Avenue
    Upper Gage Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Gage Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in front of Mountain Drive Park and works its way southward and ends just past Rymal Road beside Broughton West Park 2...

  • Upper Ottawa Street
    Upper Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Ottawa Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Mountain Brow Boulevard in the north and extends southward where it ends just past Rymal Road at the South Hamilton Industrial Park...

  • Nebo Road
    Nebo Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Nebo Road is an Upper City road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Stone Church Road East and extends southward where it ends at Chippewa Road East, just north of Lake Niapenco at the Binbrook Conservation Area....

  • Upper Kenilworth Avenue
    Upper Kenilworth Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Kenilworth Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Fennell Avenue in the north and extends southward just past Limeridge Road where it ends north of the Lincoln M...

  • Mountain Brow Boulevard
  • Upper Centennial Parkway
    Upper Centennial Parkway (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Upper Centennial Parkway is a mountain-access road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Hamilton Highway 20, the road starts off at Centennial Parkway in the Lower City beside Battlefield Park and extends south up the Niagara Escarpment and southward across the mountain where it ends at...


Roads that cross Garth Street

Note: Listing of streets from North to South.
  • Scenic Drive - Fennell Avenue
    Fennell Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Fennell Avenue, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts of just West Garth Street on the West mountain and is a two-way street throughout that extends eastward and ends at Mountain Brow Boulevard, a road that wraps around the edge of the Niagara Escarpment on...

    , West
  • Sanatorium Road
  • Mohawk Road
    Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Mohawk Road, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street throughout that starts just West of Highway 403 & Meadowlands and travels eastward linking up with the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. Mohawk Road east of Highway 403 resumes again in front of Iroquoia...

    , West
  • Limeridge Road
    Limeridge Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Limeridge Road is a two-way Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just West of Garth Street/William McCulloch Park as Limeridge Court and cuts across the Hamilton mountain eastward running parallel with the Lincoln M...

     West
  • Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
    The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...

  • Stone Church Road
    Stone Church Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
    Stone Church Road, is a two-way Upper City east-west arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Golf Links Road, just east of Meadowlands, and goes across the Escarpment and ends at Upper Mount Albion Road....

    , West
  • ; Rymal Road, West
  • Twenty Road, West

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