Highway 144 (Ontario)

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Highway 144 is a long provincial highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, linking the cities of Greater Sudbury and Timmins in the Northern Ontario region.

The highway is 271 kilometres (168 miles) long. Much of the route is very isolated; there are only two communities - Cartier and Gogama - north of the Greater Sudbury area, and gas stations are scarce (especially at night) along Highway 144.

The highway's southern terminus is an interchange with Highway 17's freeway segment west of Lively, and its northern terminus is a grade-level intersection with Highway 101 west of downtown Timmins.

The highway adopted its current routing from Lively to Chelmsford in the late 1980s, along Sudbury's newly constructed Northwest Bypass. Previously, the highway entered directly into downtown Sudbury along what is now Municipal Road 35.