Ontario Highway 560 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Secondary Highway 560, commonly referred to as Highway 560, is a provincially maintained secondary highway in Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron , the French River and Lake Nipissing. The region has a land area of 802,000 km2 and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it contains only about 6% of the population...

. It begins in the west at Highway 144 and its eastern terminus is Highway 11 at Englehart

Englehart, Ontario

Englehart is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on the Englehart River in the Timiskaming District.-History:...

. Having been re-aligned numerous times, the highway's current and former alignments follow each other very closely and are visible to each other for most of the length of the road, with third and fourth alignments in the nearby forests easily visible from the sky with photos from Google Earth

Google Earth

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a Central Intelligence Agency funded company acquired by Google in 2004 . It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite...

between Highway 560A (a 10 km-long spur to Westree

Westree, Ontario

Westree is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized, North Part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located at the end of the spur Ontario Highway 560A and lies on the north shore of Duchabani Lake about northwest of the centre of Sudbury...

) and Elk Lake, for example.

Route description

The highway between Elk Lake and Highway 65 has been recently repaved, along with the new alignment being built. The old alignment of the road is still used in many areas, as a residential access to the highway.

Highway 560 is also the closest road in Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

to the province's highest point, Ishpatina Ridge

Ishpatina Ridge

The Ishpatina Ridge is the highest point of land in the Canadian province of Ontario. At an estimated above sea level, it is a rather low mountain and not that steep, as the surrounding land in the area is already quite elevated. Ishpatina Ridge rises approximately above the immediate area. To...

.

The road is linked to Highway 667 in Sultan

Sultan, Ontario

Sultan is an unincorporated community in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.The local economy is based primarily on hunting and related tourism. In the past the logging industry formed the mainstay of the economy...

via the Sultan Industrial Road

Sultan Industrial Road

The Sultan Industrial Road is a private road in the Canadian province of Ontario. Originally built as a resource route for E. B. Eddy's logging and lumber operations in the northwestern Sudbury District, the road is now owned and operated by Domtar following its acquisition of E. B. Eddy in 1998...

, a private, gravel-surfaced logging road with public access.

There are few gas stations and services located along this route, as it travels through the most isolated parts of Northeastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and east of Lakes Superior and Huron.Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskaming, Nipissing and Manitoulin; and the single-tier municipality of Greater...

. The highway is heavily travelled by logging

Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...

trucks, and warning signs are posted along the route.

Highway 560A

Highway 560A is a secondary highway which serves as a short spur route from Highway 560 to the community of Westree

Westree, Ontario

. Its total length is approximately 10.4 kilometres (6.5 mi).

Major intersections

The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 560.

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!scope="col"|Location
!scope="col"|km
!scope="col"|Destinations
!scope="col"|Notes
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|colspan="5" align="center"| continues west as the Sultan Industrial Road

Sultan Industrial Road

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|rowspan="3"|Sudbury
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|0.0
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|Morin Village
|31.0
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|-
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|41.7
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|Opikimimk River Bridge
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|rowspan="5"|Timiskaming

Timiskaming

Timiskaming is a word from the Algonquin Temikami or Temikaming, from tim meaning "deep" and kami meaning "open waters". Alternate spellings include: Temiskaming, Témiscaming, Témiscamingue. The word Temagami comes from the same root....

Concurrency (road)

A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers...

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|144.3
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|End of Highway 65 concurrency
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|Charlton
|173.9
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|Englehart

Englehart

Englehart is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on the Englehart River in the Timiskaming District.-History:...

|183.1
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