Ontario Highway 6

Highway 6
Garafraxa Road
A map of Highway 6
Route information
Maintained by Ministry of Transportation of Ontario
Length	472.4 km[1] (293.5 mi)
Existed	June 1920[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	St. Patrick Street in Port Dover
Major intersections	Highway 3 – Jarvis  Highway 403 – Ancaster  Highway 401 – Morriston  Highway 7 – Guelph  Highway 89 – Mount Forest  Highway 10 – Chatsworth  Highway 21 / Highway 26 – Owen Sound
North end	Highway 17 / TCH – McKerrow
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Major cities	Hamilton, Guelph, Owen Sound
Towns	Port Dover, Jarvis, Hagersville, Caledonia, Ancaster, Aberfoyle, Fergus, Arthur, Mount Forest, Durham, Chatsworth, Shallow Lake, Wiarton, Tobermory, Little Current, Espanola
Highway system
Ontario provincial highways Current Former 400-series
← Highway 5 → Highway 7

King's Highway 6, commonly referred to as Highway 6, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It crosses a distance of 480 km (300 mi) between Port Dover, on the northern shore of Lake Erie, and Espanola, on the northern shore of Lake Huron, before ending at the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 17) in McKerrow.^[3]

Highway 6 was one of several routes established when Ontario first introduced a highway network on February 26, 1920, following several pioneer wagon trails. The original designation, not numbered until 1925, connected Port Dover with Owen Sound via Hamilton and Guelph. When the Department of Highways (DHO) took over the Department of Northern Development (DND) in 1937, Highway 6 was extended north through the Bruce Peninsula to Tobermory. In 1980, the entire length of Highway 68 on Manitoulin Island and north to Highway 17 became a northern extension of Highway 6. Small modifications were made to the route of Highway 6 in 1997, but it was largely untouched by provincial downloading.

Highway 6 is one of two highways in Ontario (the other being Highway 33) broken into two segments by a ferry. The Chi-Cheemaun ferry serves automobile traffic, connecting Tobermory with South Baymouth between May and October.