Like PTH 5 and PTH 20, PTH 50 does not run its entire length in one direction. The highway is designated as a north–south highway between PTH 16 and the hamlet of Silver Ridge, where it meets PR 278. From Silver Ridge to McCreary, the highway's designation changes to east–west. Between the Yellowhead Highway and Silver Ridge, PTH 50 is known as Kinosota Road.
PTH 50 provides access to the western shore of Lake Manitoba. The speed limit is 100km/h (62mph).
Still paralleling the coastline of Lake Manitoba, PTH 50 travels through the Sandy Bay First Nation, having an intersection with the main access road to the First Nations' townsite (Main Road), before passing through the town of Amaranth. Heading straight through the center of town, it has an intersection with PR 261 (Broadway Road) before leaving Amaranth and winding its way past Harcus and Leifur for several kilometers to the community of Silver Ridge, where PTH 50 makes a sharp left turn to the east at an intersection with PR 278, where it turns away from Lake Manitoba.
Between this intersection and it southern terminus at the Yellowhead Highway, PTH 50 is known as Kinosota Road.
The highway passes through the town of Alonsa prior to going through a switchback and entering the Municipality of McCreary. Traveling through rural areas for several kilometers, PTH 50 enters the town of McCreary, passing through neighborhoods as it crosses a railroad line to travel through downtown. It passes through more neighborhoods before coming to an end at an intersection with PTH 5 (Parks Route), with the road continuing west as PR 361.[1][2][3]
The entire length of Manitoba Highway 50 is a rural, paved, two-lane highway.
History
PTH 50 first appeared on the 1953 Manitoba Highway Map.[4]
When it was first added, PTH 50 was an east–west route connecting PTH 5 at McCreary to Silver Ridge. The highway's north–south segment was added in 1956.[5]
Provincial Road 567 (PR 567), also known as Steebridge Road, is a short east–west spur of PTH 50 in a rural section of the Rural Municipality of WestLake - Gladstone, just south of Lakeland. Running for 7.5 kilometres (4.7mi), it provides access to the Lakeland boat launch on the Whitemud River, near its mouth on Lake Manitoba. It is entirely an unpaved two-lane road. No settlements lie along the highway.[2][6]
Provincial Road 569 (PR 569), also known as Road 89N, is a short unsigned 5.7-kilometre-long (3.5mi) east-west spur of PTH 50 in the community of Lakeland in the Rural Municipality of WestLake - Gladstone. It runs from PTH 50 at the northern edge of the community to a dead end along the eastern shores of Lake Manitoba. It is entirely unpaved, with the section between PTH 50 and Road 50W two-lanes wide, with the remaining 0.8 kilometres (0.50mi) to Lake Manitoba being a narrow one-lane track. No other settlements lie along the highway.[2][7]
Provincial Road 573 (PR 573) was a 9.8-kilometre-long (6.1mi) east-west spur of PTH 50 in the northern part of the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, connecting it with Hollywood Beach on the western coastline of Lake Manitoba. It was entirely a gravel road, and came to a dead end along the shoreline, with no other settlements or major intersections along its length. The route was decommissioned during the Great Decommissioning of 1992, and still exists as Municipal Road 100N.[8][9][10]
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PTH 5 / PR 361 at McCreary 
PTH 16 (TCH) / YH near Westbourne 
