View source for Quebec Route 185

{{Short description|Highway in Quebec}}
{{Infobox road
|marker_image   = [[File:Qc185.svg|72px]] [[File:Trans-Canada Highway Quebec.svg|72px]]
|province=QC
|type=TCH
|route=185
|maint=[[Transports Québec]]
|map=Route 185-QC.png
|established=
|decommissioned=
| length_km  = 9
| length_round = 1
|length_ref=<ref>Ministère des transports, "Distances routières", page 76, Les Publications du Québec, 2005</ref> 
|direction_b=North
|direction_a=South
|terminus_b={{jct|state=QC|TCH|85}} in Demers 
|terminus_a={{jct|state=QC|TCH|85}} at [[Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!]], [[Quebec]]
|previous_type=QC
|next_type=QC
|cities= Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
|junction= {{jct|state=QC|QC|291}} in Saint-Honoré-de-Temiscouata 
| previous_route =175
| next_route =191
}}

[[Image:Quebec-Highway 185.JPG|right|250px|thumb|Route 185 southbound, south of [[Rivière-du-Loup]]]]
'''Route 185''' is part of the [[Trans-Canada Highway]]. It travels from Demers to Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, a distance of about {{convert|9|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}. It connects the 2 sections of [[Quebec Autoroute 85|Autoroute 85]] and is the former designation for all of A-85.

At present, Route 185 is a 2-lane highway with passing lanes. Often cited as one of the most dangerous highways in Canada, it is being upgraded to [[Autoroutes of Quebec|Autoroute]] standards as a 4-lane fully controlled-access [[freeway]], assuming and extending the existing [[Quebec Autoroute 85|Autoroute 85]] designation. Several sections have been completed and opened as such. Once this upgrade is completed, it will close the last gap in a continuous freeway section of the Trans-Canada between [[Renfrew, Ontario|Renfrew]], [[Ontario]], and [[Lower South River, Nova Scotia|Lower South River]], [[Nova Scotia]] - a length of over 1,500 km (900 mi), and for an even longer interprovincial freeway route between [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]], Ontario and [[City of Halifax|Halifax]], Nova Scotia - a length of about 2,150 km (1,300 mi), roughly playing the same role that the old [[Quebec Route 2]] (which Route 185 was formerly part of) played before its renumbering into several roads in the early-1970s.

Currently, there are 2 sections of A-85, one from A-20 to Demers, and the other from Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! to [[New Brunswick Route 2]] at the provincial border in [[Degelis, Quebec|Degelis]], and as of 2016, Route 185 no longer connects to New Brunswick route 2 at the provincial border. The opening of the remaining freeway portion in 2026, which will link the segments of A-85, will also mark the end of Route 185.

==See also==
* [[List of Quebec provincial highways]]

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Attached KML|display=title,inline}}
*[https://www.motorways-exits.com/north_america/cdn/qc/a85.html Autoroute 85 at motorways-exits.com]
* [http://www.quebec511.gouv.qc.ca/fr/index.asp Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec)] {{in lang|fr}}
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{{Interprovincial highway
| curr = 185
| curr_type = Route
| curr_province = QC
| name = TCH
| prev = 85
| prev_type = A
| prev_province = QC 
| next = 2
| next_type = Route
| next_province = NB
}}
{{Trans-Canada}}
{{Quebec Autoroutes}}
{{Quebec Routes (100-199)}}

[[Category:Quebec Routes|185]]
[[Category:Trans-Canada Highway|Quebec 185]]