Carp Road ( Ottawa Road #5) is an arterial road in

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that runs between Fitzroy Harbour and

Stittsville Stittsville is a suburban community, part of the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario. It is within the former Goulbourn Township. A part of the National Capital Region, Stittsville is immediately to the southwest of Kanata, adjacent to Richm ...

, through the village of

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. The road is located in the city's west end, beginning in Fitzroy Harbour at

Galetta Side Road Galetta is a dispersed rural community in West Carleton-March Ward in rural western Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Mississippi River near its mouth in the Ottawa River. Once part of Fitzroy Township and later West Carleton, it is ...

and ending in Stittsville at Stittsville Main Street. Most of the route is rural with the exception of Stittsville where the road travels in a residential development. Ottawa Regional Road #5 continues as Stittsville Main Street south of Carp Road, then becomes Huntley Road south of Stittsville toward the town of

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. A curious artifact of pre-amalgamation Ottawa is the inconsistent numbering of addresses on Carp Road, divided at the intersection of Rothbourne Road, the boundary of the former townships of Goulbourn and West Carleton: Addresses begin at 1000 and run south toward Stittsville in Goulbourn, but begin at 2000 and run north toward Fitzroy Harbour in West Carleton. Among notable landmarks along the road are: * Carp Road Landfill run by

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- 142 hectare facility with a 35 hectares landfill site * Carp Fair - home to annual fall fair since 1863 * Irish Hills Golf and Country Club - a 9 and 18 hole course with banquet facilities *

Carp Airport Ottawa/Carp Airport or Carp Airport is located south of Carp, Ontario, Canada, a small village that is now part of Ottawa. Carp is the only airport in the Ottawa area where private hangar space is readily available, so it is a popular home bas ...

- former military airfield (World War II

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field) and now private general aviation facility *

Diefenbunker The Diefenbunker, formerly known by its military designation, Canadian Forces Station Carp (CFS Carp), is a large underground four-storey reinforced concrete bunker and nuclear fallout shelter located in the rural area of Carp, Ontario approximat ...

former bomb shelter from the 1950s (closed 1994) and now Cold War museum *

Carp Hills The Carp Hills (also known as Carp Ridge) are a small range of rocky hills between the shallow valleys of the Carp River and Constance Creek, entirely within the West Carleton-March Ward of Canada's capital, Ottawa, Ontario. It runs roughly fr ...

- upland extension of the Canadian Shield running along Carp Road

Major Intersections

From north to south: *

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* Thomas A. Dolan Parkway *

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* Donald B. Munro Drive *March Road * Highway 417 * Hazeldean Road *

Stittsville Main Street Stittsville is a suburban community, part of the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario. It is within the former Goulbourn Township. A part of the National Capital Region, Stittsville is immediately to the southwest of Kanata, adjacent to Rich ...

References

External links

Google Maps: Carp Road
{{Ottawa Roads Roads in Ottawa