St. Albert Trail

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Groat Road, looking south from an overpass.

St. Albert Trail is a road connecting the cities of Edmonton and St. Albert in Alberta, Canada.

If one were to drive the length of the route south to north, from the University of Alberta in south-central Edmonton to the northern outskirts of St. Albert, one would encounter multiple name changes without ever exiting or turning off the road

University Avenue turns to the north and heads down in the North Saskatchewan River valley. Here one crosses the Groat Bridge and emerges on Groat Road. Groat Road winds through a gorge before reaching the flat plains at the top of the valley. Here the route becomes St. Albert Trail, at Westmount Centre. After only a few blocks the road now becomes Mark Messier Trail, as it moves away from central Edmonton. At the juncture with 170 Street, the road becomes part of Alberta Highway 2. At the Edmonton-St. Albert boundary the road becomes known as St. Albert Road, and keeps this designation throughout that city, before exiting the city boundaries to the north where it becomes a divided highway as far north as Morinville. North of the St. Albert boundary the road has no other name than Highway 2.

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