PTH 17 begins in the
Rural Municipality of St. Andrews at an intersection with
PTH 9 a few kilometers south of
Winnipeg Beach, with the road heading due west as a gravel road. later, it has an intersection with
PTH 8, where the highway becomes paved, crossing into the
Rural Municipality of Rockwood after a few kilometers of rural farmland. PTH 17 then travels straight through the town of
Teulon, where it has an intersection with
PTH 7, before curving northwest and winding its way through woodlands for the next several kilometers, where it passes by
Norris Lake Provincial Park, before entering the
Rural Municipality of Armstrong. At the intersection with PTH 7 in Teulon, PTH 17 switches signed cardinal directions from east-west to north-south. PTH 17 begins a
concurrency (overlap) with
PR 229 as it travels through
Inwood, where it makes a sharp turn to the north at a junction with
PR 416. PR 229 splits off shortly thereafter and PTH 17 winds its way north through a mix of farmland and wooded areas for the next several kilometers, passing through
Narcisse, where it crosses a former railroad line as well as having intersections with Road 114N (which leads to the site of
Bender Hamlet) and
PR 231. The highway passes by the
Narcisse Snake Dens and the community of
Chatfield, where it has an intersection with
PR 419, before crossing into the
Rural Municipality of Fisher. PTH 17 has many switchbacks along its route in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. PTH 17 almost immediately travels through
Poplarfield, where it crosses
PTH 68, as it heads due north through farmland to have intersections with Road 134N, which provides accessible to
Broad Valley, and
PR 329. The highway travels along the eastern side of
Fisher Branch, where it junctions with
PR 233 and crosses a creek, before continuing north to become concurrent with
PR 325. PTH 17 / PR 325 make a sharp curve to the east to pass through
Hodgson and cross
Bottle Creek before coming to an intersection with
PR 224 at the southern edge of the
Peguis First Nation, where PTH 17 ends and the road continues east as PR 325. The entire length of PTH 17 is a rural, two-lane highway. ==History==