Ontario Highway 649

Former Highway 649, now known as Kawartha Lakes Road 49, runs in a predominantly north–south direction and covers a distance of . The road crosses primarily rural geography between its southern terminus, City Road 36 (Main Street), former Highway 36, and northern terminus, City Road 121, former Highway 121. The village of Bobcaygeon at its southern terminus is an exception, and the village of Kinmount lies a short distance north of the route. The road crosses the boundary between the Ordovician limestone to the south and the granite Canadian Shield to the north, resulting in a hilly landscape with many large rock outcroppings. == History ==

The road that is now Kawartha Lakes Road 49 started in 1853, when an act of parliament set forth the building of colonization roads into what was then the frontier of Upper Canada. One of the first of these roads was named the Bobcaygeon Road, after the village at its southern end. In 1956, the southern portion of the Bobcaygeon Road through Minden was assumed by the Department of Highways (DHO), predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation, and numbered as Highway 500. Highway 121 was also opened along the Bobcaygeon Road that year, from south of Kinmount to Minden. On March 1, 1964, a major renumbering took place in the Kawartha – Haliburton – Peterborough area, which resulted in Highway 500 being renumbered as Highway 649. The road held this designation until January 1, 1998, when the entirety of Highway 649 was decommissioned and transferred to Victoria County, which designated it as Victoria County 49. In 2001, Victoria County was restructured as the city of Kawartha Lakes, and the road was renamed Kawartha Lakes Road 49, which it remains known as today. == Major intersections ==