Thousand Islands Parkway

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The Thousand Islands Parkway is a parkway in the Canadian province of Ontario, which extends easterly from an interchange with Highway 401 at Gananoque for approximately 45 kilometres to the community of Butternut Bay, in Elizabethtown-Kitley near Brockville.

The parkway follows the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It was the original alignment of Highway 2, and was later designated Highway 2S (for Scenic). It was to have been the alignment of Highway 401 through the area, and was in fact signed as such until 1968 when a new alignment of Highway 401 was opened further to the north. Evidence of its proposed use can be seen today in the wide right-of-way (the proposed westbound freeway lanes now house a bicycle trail) and twin bridge structures at two locations.

The parkway interchanges with Highway 137, the Ontario approach to the international Thousand Islands Bridge.