Highway 11 Between Hearst and Kapuskasing: Northern Ontario's Forgotten Danger

A remote two-lane corridor through the boreal clay belt where moose, extreme cold, and sparse emergency coverage define the risk

Northern Ontario covers a staggering 800,000 square kilometres. Most of it has no roads at all. The communities that exist in this vast boreal zone — Hearst, Kapuskasing, Cochrane, Timmins — are connected by a handful of provincial highways that traverse some of the emptiest terrain in eastern North America. Among these, Highway 11 is the primary corridor, and the section between Hearst and Kapuskasing — roughly 100 kilometres of two-lane highway through the Clay Belt — represents the corridor at its most exposed.

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