It is part of a 40-kilometre-long (25 mi) continuous roadway that runs through Sherwood Park, Edmonton, and St. Albert that includes Wye Road, Sherwood Park Freeway, Whyte Avenue, portions of University Avenue and Saskatchewan Drive, and Groat Road.

After only a few blocks (137 Avenue) the road now becomes Mark Messier Trail, as it moves away from central Edmonton.

Two smaller segments of St. Albert Trail also exists as local roads, separated from the artery when Edmonton expanded its grid system of streets, and cut it off.

List of neighbourhoods St. Albert Trail runs through, in order from south to north.

[4] This is a list of major intersections, starting at the south end of St. Albert Trail.