Highway 99 near Fountain Slide, about 15 kilometres north of Lillooet, looking southwest (DriveBC).

By Aaron Schulze

Highway 99

Highway 99 re-opens for essential travel

Nov 20, 2021 | 1:56 PM

LILLOOET, B.C. — The B.C. government announced Highway 99 is now open for motorists travelling for essential purposes only.

Highway 99 connects the Lower Mainland to Pemberton, Lillooet, and the Interior.

Essential purposes for travel are include transporting essential goods, supplies, livestock and agriculture products, and responding to emergencies. Checkpoints will be in place and travel restrictions will be enforced.

The province encourages drivers to wait an extra day or two to travel if possible as highway corridors between the Lower Mainland and the rest of the province are anticipated to be extremely busy with conditions can change quickly.

Weight restrictions are in place for Highway 99 from just north of Pemberton through to the Lillooet. Highway 99 is a steep mountainous road with narrow sections and sharp curves, and high volumes of commercial vehicles cannot be safely accommodated.

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Regular passenger vehicles such as cars, SUVs, vans, and trucks under gross vehicle weight of 14,500 kilograms can travel on this corridor. Vehicles over the weight restriction are directed to use Highway 3, which opened to essential travel on Friday (Nov. 19).

Delays can be expected, and some sections of open roads may be single lane alternating.

Highway 99 closed due to a mudslide on Monday (Nov. 15).