Nova Scotia Trunk 2

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Nova Scotia Trunk 2 is a provincial highway that runs about 266 kilometers (165 miles) from Halifax to Fort Lawrence on the New Brunswick border. It’s maintained by the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. Today, most fast-moving traffic uses Highway 102 and Highway 104, while Trunk 2 serves regional and local travel. The route is also part of the Glooscap Trail, a signed tourist route.

The drive starts at Connaught Avenue and Bayers Road in Halifax, goes north on Connaught and Windsor Streets to Lady Hammond Road, and then proceeds along the Bedford Highway to Bedford. From Bedford it heads northeast along Rocky Lake Drive to Waverley, then along the eastern shore of Lake Thomas through Fall River, Fletchers Lake, Shubenacadie Grand Lake, Wellington Station, Wellington, Grand Lake Station, and Oakfield before turning toward the Shubenacadie Valley. It enters Hants County at Enfield, follows the valley west of the Shubenacadie River through Elmsdale, Lantz and Milford Station to Shubenacadie, crosses to the east bank, and then continues into Colchester County, passing Stewiacke, Brookfield, Hilden and the Millbrook First Nation before reaching Truro.

In Truro, Trunk 2 follows Willow Street, then Prince Street West (co-signed with Trunk 4), Juniper Street and Robie Street to reach the Highway 102 interchange in Lower Truro. It shares Highway 102 for about a kilometer, crosses the Salmon River near Onslow, then continues west from Onslow along the north shore of Cobequid Bay through Masstown and Glenholme, where Trunk 2 and 4 split.

From Glenholme, Trunk 2 runs west along the north shore of the Minas Basin through Great Village, Bass River, Economy and Five Islands, and forms part of the Glooscap Trail and Fundy Shore Ecotour. At Parrsboro it turns north through the Cobequid Hills to Newville Lake, then northeast to the Southampton River and into Springhill. It heads northwest about 30 kilometers to Amherst and ends in Fort Lawrence at the New Brunswick border.

Historically, the Springhill–Little Forks section was Trunk 26 before 1938, and that older route is now Collector Highway 302. Until the 1960s, Trunk 4 ran concurrently with Trunk 2 from Amherst to Springhill.