Ontario Highway 522
Ontario Highway 522 is a provincially maintained road in Parry Sound District, Ontario. It runs about 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Highway 69 near Cranberry in the west to Highway 11 in Trout Creek in the east. It’s the only road linking Highway 69 and Highway 11 south of Highway 17 and north of Highway 124, and it’s a common route for travelers heading to Grundy Lake Provincial Park.
History: Highway 522 was created in 1956, starting from Trout Creek west to Loring. It was gradually extended and paved through the 1950s and 1960s, reaching the Pickerel River at Kawigamog Lake in 1965 and being fully paved to Trout Creek by 1966, with western sections completed by 1979. It connected with Highway 69 in the mid-1970s. In 2002, Trout Creek was bypassed by a new Highway 11 route, and Highway 522 was extended south to meet the new Highway 11 alignment.
Route: The highway begins at Highway 69 in Cranberry and heads east, providing access to Grundy Lake Provincial Park. It travels through mostly forested Canadian Shield country, serving cottages along several lakes and passing through communities such as Pakesley, Lost Channel, Ess Narrows Landing, Fleming’s Landing, Loring, Spring Creek, Port Loring and Arnstein. It continues through Golden Valley and Bear Valley, meeting Highway 524 at Farley’s Corners. It then briefly turns south to Commanda, crosses Commanda Creek, and resumes east to Trout Creek. In Trout Creek, the road runs through a downtown Connecting Link area and ends at an interchange with Highway 11 about 2.6 kilometers from downtown.
Traffic: In 2010, average daily traffic was about 880 vehicles on the 24-kilometer section from Trout Creek to Commanda Creek, and about 450 vehicles on the 47-kilometer section east of Grundy Lake Provincial Park.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 11:19 (CET).