Route Description
At the time of its decommissioning, Highway 47 began at Highway 48, and travelled east through a rural portion of Whitchurch-Stouffville along what is now York Regional Road 40 (Bloomington Road), passing through rolling farmland. Only a decade prior, the highway travelled through the town of Stouffville along Main Street, then turned north along the Tenth line, following it to Bloomington Road and York - Durham Line, where it curved gently into the 1997 routing of the highway. The re-routing served to bypass this urban section.
Within the Regional Municipality of Durham, the route passed through Goodwood, where it curved northeast through forests. The highway then zig-zagged northeast to the town of Uxbridge. East of there, the highway continued through marshes, past Durham Regional Road 23 (Lakeridge Road), and into flat farmland. The route ended at Highway 12 south of Greenbank.
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