{"id":85,"date":"2008-05-21T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:08:50","slug":"lowest-road-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/lowest-road-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowest Road in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I focused on the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=81\">highest contiguous highway in the United States<\/a>. Today I&#8217;d like to focus on the opposite situation in another place in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the lowest road in Canada?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I love a good trick question. Canada&#8217;s lowest elevation is sea level, so the obvious answer would be any road that runs along the seacoast. Unfortunately, that would be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bcgovphotos\/50730834266\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50730834266_20257c8de4_b.jpg\" alt=\"George Massey crossing business case received by government. Photo by Province of British Columbia; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>George Massey Tunnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lowest point on a public road in Canada runs through the George Massey Tunnel (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/mvArJ37VqeZsWanK6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). It burrows under the Fraser River south of Vancouver International Airport, and at its lowest spot reaches down to twenty meters below sea level. 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