Upper Paradise Road is an Upper City (mountain) collector road in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

, Canada

Canada

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. It starts off just north of Scenic Drive by Cliffview Park and extends southward where it ends just south of Rymal Road beside Carpenter Park. It is a two-way street throughout.

History

Named Upper Paradise Road because it is in alignment with Paradise Road in Lower City Hamilton. Present-day Paradise Road got its name because it led into Cootes Paradise

Cootes Paradise

Cootes Paradise is the largest wetland at the western end of Lake Ontario, on the west side of Hamilton Harbour. It is bordered by the cities of Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and managed by the Royal Botanical Gardens , a private charitable status organization. These lands...

. Paradise Road spent many years known as West Street, because it was the western boundary of the city fron 1846 until approximately 1920.

Landmarks

Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.

• Mountain-access stairs (connecting Chedoke Civic Golf Course in Lower City to Scenic Drive on the mountain)
• Niagara Escarpment
  Niagara Escarpment
  The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in the United States and Canada that runs westward from New York State, through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois...
  
  
• Cliffview Park
• Westcliffe Mall (shopping/ commercial)
• Regina Mundi Church
• Regina Mundi Elementary School
• Fonthill Park, (off of Hadeland Avenue)
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  , "The LINC"
• Gilkson Park (off of Greenshire Drive)
• Shawinigan Park (off of Wingfield Place)
• St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School
  St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School
  St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School is one of 7 Catholic High Schools in Hamilton, Ontario under the jurisdiction of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board...
  
  
• William Schwenger Park
• Carpenter Park
• Bruce Trail
  Bruce Trail
  The Bruce Trail is a hiking trail in southern and central Ontario, Canada.-General:The trail follows the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, one of the thirteen UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves in Canada, for almost...
  
  

Communities

Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South.

• Westcliffe
• Mountview
• Fessenden/ Gilbert, Upper Paradise cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Gurnett/ Gilkson, Upper Paradise cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Falkirk West/ Falkirk East, Upper Paradise cuts through these two neighbourhoods
• Villages of Glancaster

Roads that are parallel with Upper Paradise Road

Note: Listing of Roads from West to East.

• Wilson Street (Ancaster)
• Highway 403
  Highway 403 (Ontario)
  King's Highway 403, also known as Highway 403, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that travels between Woodstock and Mississauga, branching off from and reuniting with Highway 401 at both ends and travelling south of it through Hamilton and Mississauga. It is concurrent...
  
  
• Upper Paradise Road
• Garth Street
  Garth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Garth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Beckett Drive, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward where it ends at Twenty Road just east of the Glancaster Golf and Country Club...
  
  
• West 5th Street
  West 5th Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  West 5th Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off in the north at James Mountain Road, a mountain-access road, and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends just south of Christopher Drive...
  
  
• Upper James Street
  Upper James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper James Street, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Claremont Access, a mountain-access road in the north, and extends southward towards the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport where it then changes its name to the Hamilton Port Dover Plain...
  
  
• Upper Wellington Street
  Upper Wellington Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Wellington Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at the Jolley Cut, a mountain-access road to the north, beside Sam Lawrence Park and extends southward past Rymal Road where it ends at the Mount Hamilton Cemetery...
  
  
• Upper Wentworth Street
  Upper Wentworth Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Wentworth Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in the north and extends southward past Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...
  
  
• Upper Sherman Avenue
  Upper Sherman Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Sherman Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off north of Concession Street at Mountain Brow Avenue and extends southward where it ends at Rymal Road. It is a two-way street throughout.-History:...
  
  
• Upper Gage Avenue
  Upper Gage Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Gage Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Concession Street in front of Mountain Drive Park and works its way southward and ends just past Rymal Road beside Broughton West Park 2...
  
  
• Upper Ottawa Street
  Upper Ottawa Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Ottawa Street is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Mountain Brow Boulevard in the north and extends southward where it ends just past Rymal Road at the South Hamilton Industrial Park...
  
  
• Nebo Road
  Nebo Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Nebo Road is an Upper City road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Stone Church Road East and extends southward where it ends at Chippewa Road East, just north of Lake Niapenco at the Binbrook Conservation Area....
  
  
• Upper Kenilworth Avenue
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Kenilworth Avenue is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Fennell Avenue in the north and extends southward just past Limeridge Road where it ends north of the Lincoln M...
  
  
• Mountain Brow Boulevard
• Upper Centennial Parkway
  Upper Centennial Parkway (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Upper Centennial Parkway is a mountain-access road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Hamilton Highway 20, the road starts off at Centennial Parkway in the Lower City beside Battlefield Park and extends south up the Niagara Escarpment and southward across the mountain where it ends at...
  
  

Roads that cross Upper Paradise Road

Note: Listing of streets from North to South.

• Scenic Drive - Fennell Avenue
  Fennell Avenue (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Fennell Avenue, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts of just West Garth Street on the West mountain and is a two-way street throughout that extends eastward and ends at Mountain Brow Boulevard, a road that wraps around the edge of the Niagara Escarpment on...
  
  , West
• Sanatorium Road
• Mohawk Road
  Mohawk Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Mohawk Road, is an Upper City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is a two-way street throughout that starts just West of Highway 403 & Meadowlands and travels eastward linking up with the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway. Mohawk Road east of Highway 403 resumes again in front of Iroquoia...
  
  , West
• Limeridge Road
  Limeridge Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Limeridge Road is a two-way Upper City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off just West of Garth Street/William McCulloch Park as Limeridge Court and cuts across the Hamilton mountain eastward running parallel with the Lincoln M...
  
   West
• Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway
  The Lincoln Alexander Parkway, officially nicknamed "The Linc", is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario. Located on the Hamilton mountain, atop the Niagara Escarpment...
  
  
• Stone Church Road
  Stone Church Road (Hamilton, Ontario)
  Stone Church Road, is a two-way Upper City east-west arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts at Golf Links Road, just east of Meadowlands, and goes across the Escarpment and ends at Upper Mount Albion Road....
  
  , West
• ; Rymal Road, West

External links

• Google Maps: Upper Paradise Road (Hybrid)