page_title: Saskatchewan Highway 5
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Saskatchewan Highway 5 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: Muenster, Saskatchewan
context_page_description: Highway 5 is a major highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It begins in downtown Saskatoon and runs eastward to the Manitoba border near Togo, where it becomes Provincial Road 363. The highway is approximately 393 kilometres long. Between the early 1900s and 1976, Provincial Highway 5 was a trans-provincial highway travelling approximately 630 kilometres in length. At this time it started at the Alberta border in Lloydminster and traveled east to the Manitoba border.
  In the summer of 1970, the section of highway between Lloydminster and Saskatoon was designated to be a portion of the Yellowhead Highway. This section of highway maintained the Highway 5 designation until 1976, when it was redesignated as Highway 16 to maintain the same number through the four western provinces. This redesignation shortened the length of Highway 5 to its current length of 393 kilometres.
  Along the route are several heritage sites, an international bird watching area, saline lakes, as well as regional and provincial parks. Museums and historical markers commemorate the region's history along the highway.
context_section_description: Highway 5 begins near downtown Saskatoon at Idylwyld Drive North (Highway 11 and 12), as 25th Street East. Saskatoon is the most populous city located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River, with a metropolitan population of 233,923.  The highway starting terminus is adjacent to the Saskatoon Railway Station a national historic site classified as a Designated Heritage Railway Station.  Along 25th Street, there is a historic marker commemorating the King Edward School building the first home of Saskatoon's city hall, and the Saskatoon World War memorial marker. The Meewasin Valley Trail follows the South Saskatchewan River through Saskatoon which is visible when Highway 5 traverses the University Bridge.  At the top of the bridge is the University of Saskatchewan's President's Residence which was constructed between 1910 and 1913.  East of the residence are the Memorial Gates are a World War I memorial, the interment site of the Honourable Sir Frederick W. A. G. Haultain's ashes, the entrance to the Royal University Hospital and University of Saskatchewan.  It becomes College Drive after crossing the river, and at km 4.4, after passing Preston Avenue, the road diverges into a divided or twinned highway with 2 lanes traveling in either direction across a meridian  Continuing east it intersects the Circle Drive freeway route (Highway 16) at an interchange that opened in 2006. After a signalized intersection with Central Avenue and an interchange with McKercher Drive, and then meets one of the city's newest interchanges at McOrmond Drive. Highway 5 leaves Saskatoon's city limits where it undivides, at approx. km 14.
    
  According to the Atlas of Saskatchewan, the elevation around Saskatoon is between 500 to 600 metres (1,600 to 2,000 ft).  Leaving Saskatoon, travel is through a moist mixed grassland ecoregion.  Small Aspen groves surround sloughs which intersperse the glacial till landscape.  The highway is paved between Saskatoon and Kamsack. Just outside the city limits, Highway 5 connects with Highway 41 at the site of a small commercial area that, as of 2007, included the Sundown Drive-In, one of Canada's last operational drive-in movie theatres.  The remainder of the highway to the Manitoba border is an undivided highway.  The communities of Strawberry Hills, Discovery Ridge and Settler's Ridge are just off km 18 on Highway 5. At km 21, Highway 5 intersects Highway 316.  
  Patience Lake is located at km 24.3 and the Patience Lake potash mine is visible from Highway 5. "Patience Lake is a shallow, permanent, hypersaline lake east of Saskatoon in an area of extensive potash extraction. "  The Patience Lake underground potash mine opened in 1975 was thereafter closed in 1987 due to extensive flooding.  A new solution mine was reopened in 1988.
  At km 41, it intersects Highway 671, near the town of St. Denis. At km 64, it intersects Highway 2, where it begins a 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) concurrency. Highway 5 continues east at km 70.
  The town of Peterson is at km 76 and Highway 670 is at km 87. The ecoregion changes to aspen parkland.  Grasslands are resident on the upper slopes, and aspen groves on the lower areas.  There tend to be more aspen groves in the aspen parkland as compared to the mixed grassland area. At km 109, the highway passes through the town of Dixon.
  The city of Humboldt is at km 115. Highway 5 also connects with Highway 20 in Humboldt. A new Humboldt tourist booth was opened in 1971 on the highway edge.  Humboldt has many large murals depicting its German Catholic history located on building walls throughout the city.  The Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery is located in a 1912 post office and customs office with its landmark tower clock which has been declared a national historic site.  
  The Carlton Trail Regional Economic Development Authority (REDA) coordinates and instigates economy in an area of rural municipalities (RM) and towns in central Saskatchewan around Humboldt.  The main industries of this area are agricultural, manufacturing, processing concerns as well as potash 
caption: Count Berthold Imhoff painting
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