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  • Commercial Vehicles
    • Trucking
    • Passenger Transportation
  • Engineering
    • BC Projects
    • BC Infrastructure
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
    • BC Highway History
  • Environment
    • Wildlife
    • Avalanche and Weather Program
    • Active Transportation
    • Adopt a Highway
    • Transit
  • Emergency Events
    • Current Road Advisories and Information
    • About Avalanche
    • About Flooding
    • About Wildfire
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BC Road Trips

A look at the attractions, history and activities that are available along our beautiful province, accessible by our BC highway system.

Winter Driving TIps

A List to Help You Travel Safely and Merry this Holiday

August 18, 2022December 23, 2014 Leave a comment

The holidays are here, and many of us are taking to the highways to visit friends and family, or dusting off the skiis/snowboard for those glorious mountains. But to get there, you need to be

Categories BC Road Trips, Shift into Winter

Driving Divided Freeways in BC: 7 Tips You Need to Know

October 26, 2018December 11, 2014 10 Comments

There are many kinds of highways in BC: Rural highways, urban highways, primary highways, secondary highways, freeways and expressways just to name a few. Each type of highway serves a different purpose. For example, a

Categories BC Road Trips, Shift into Winter, Tips and How Tos

Your Top 10 BC Road Trip Photos

October 29, 2018August 27, 2014 4 Comments

“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson At the start of summer, we asked you to share your road trip photos by using the hashtag #BCRoadTrip. You did not disappoint. In

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

Drive a BC Highway in 15,000 Photos

August 29, 2022August 22, 2014 12 Comments

Ever hear of a kineograph? We hadn’t until now, but we knew about the more common term for the same thing: a “flip book”. You’ve probably seen them before – a thick book filled with

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
BC Highway photos

Share your Summer #BCRoadTrip

June 24, 2014 2 Comments

The road trip. The time-honoured tradition of getting in your vehicle, turning up the tunes and heading out on the highway. There’s nothing quite like travelling the open road, soaking in the sights, sounds, and

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers

What’s Shakespeare’s Connection to the Coquihalla?

November 7, 2021June 19, 2014 3 Comments

If you’ve ever driven the Coquihalla Highway, you’ve probably noticed names like Shylock, Othello, Juliet, Portia. And if you’re a fan of English literature, you’d also probably recognize these names as characters penned by none

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, BC Travellers
Easter Long Weekend.

7 Ways to Travel Safely this Easter Weekend

April 5, 2022April 17, 2014 4 Comments

Easter long weekend is here, the weather is getting nicer, and hitting the road to see family and friends is on the agenda. It’s really important that you get to where you’re going safely (especially

Categories BC Road Trips, BC Travellers, Tips and How Tos
BC Highway Garbage Gobbler

The Garbage Gobbler – A Kitschy, Cool and Beloved Piece of BC Highway History

July 11, 2022April 8, 2014 34 Comments

  Let’s take a trip down memory lane shall we? Back to the days when things moved a little more slowly, perhaps around 1959. Slide into a larger vehicle, one built for style, say… an

Categories BC Highway History, BC Road Trips, Environment
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