Highway 811 (Ontario)
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| Tertiary Highway 811 |
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| Length: | 62 km (39 mi) |
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| Formed: | 1976 |
| Direction: | North/South |
| North end: | Secondary Highway 527 |
| South end: | In the Boreal forest near Kashishibog Lake |
| Counties: | Thunder Bay District, Ontario |
Tertiary Highway 811 is the longest of the Tertiary highways, and is the highest-numbered of any current provincially-maintained road in the province (excluding the accidental posting of Highway 7051 on Wolfe Island).
[edit] History
This long Tertiary Highway off from Secondary Highway 527, roughly halfway between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Armstrong, Ontario, and heads northwestwards for 59 km towards Savant Lake, Ontario (though the road reaches only half-way there. In 1974, the MTO released a study for transportation in Northwestern Ontario, and found a potential benefit for a roadway between Highways 527 and Secondary Highway 599 at Savant Lake.
The Ministry of Transportation assumed control of a forest road that branched off from Secondary Highway 527, and renumbered it as Tertiary Highway 811 in 1976. While the road extension to Savant Lake has not been announced or built yet, Highway 811 still forms an important forestry road.
The road is gravel for its entire length.
