Greater Sudbury Road 13, also known as Vermilion Lake Road, is a municipal road in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It was voted as the worst road in Ontario in the Canadian Automobile Association's annual Ontario's Worst Roads survey in 2007. In the 2008 survey, Vermilion Lake Road dropped to third place behind Steeles Avenue in Toronto and Brock Street in Kingston, while in 2009 the road dropped to ninth place. In 2010, however, the road rose to second place again, behind only Pelican Falls Road in Sioux Lookout.
The road begins at Highway 144, travelling at a south-westerly direction, until ending its numbered municipal road status at Brosseau Street. However, west of Brosseau Street, the Vermilion Lake Road name continues for a further 1.5 km, ending at a dead end near Vermilion Lake. The road primarily serves the communities of Larchwood and Hull.
In October 2007, shortly after the road was named to the Worst Roads survey, the city launched a construction project to replace four culverts on the road.
Greater Sudbury Road 13 only intersects with one other numbered municipal road, Greater Sudbury Road 12 (Gordon Lake Road).
Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or road:
“Such were the first rude beginnings of a town. They spoke of the practicability of a winter road to the Moosehead Carry, which would not cost much, and would connect them with steam and staging and all the busy world. I almost doubted if the lake would be there,—the self-same lake,—preserve its form and identity, when the shores should be cleared and settled; as if these lakes and streams which explorers report never awaited the advent of the citizen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new,—and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
‘Neath every one a friend.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)