Heritage Highway

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The Heritage Highway (also known as "Historic Highway") is an Ontario tourist route that travels from Windsor, Ontario all the way to Gaspe, Quebec, along much of what was formerly Route 2 (present-day Route 132) and Highway 2. The Heritage Highway designation also continued along Highway 18 (Now Essex County Road 20), looping around the western end of Essex County, before heading back eastbound towards Leamington, Ontario. It then would continue along Highway 3 to Wainfleet, Ontario, before terminating at Fort Erie, Ontario, with a spur heading back to Windsor along Essex CR 34. The trail is also concurrent with the Loyalist Parkway in Eastern Ontario.

The route also had a spur along Highway 11 to North Bay, Ontario, where it would meet fellow Heritage Highway, Highway 17, which would travel from Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario to Montreal, Quebec.

There are still a couple signs reminaing on the routes, with one sign in Harrow, Ontario on CR 20. Until 1997, there were a few signs along former Highway 3 alignment Essex CR 34 around the Cottam, Ontario and Essex, Ontario areas.

To the top-right of this article is an older Heritage Highway logo. Other signs on the Heritage Highway are reversed in colours, with a white wheel and white lettering on a brown background.