Major Highways of New South Wales

The highways of New South Wales are many and varied. The information below contains brief facts and figures on NSWs regional arterial road network. Readers noting omissions, errors or corrections are welcome to email with details.

Princes Highway (RTA: SH 1) (National Route 1)

Connected Centres: Sydney, Wollongong, Nowra, Batemans Bay, Narooma, Bega, Eden (continues into Victoria & Melbourne)

The Princes Highway, as the state's main southern coastal artery, carries heavy traffic through the southern Sydney area. On the southern outskirts of Sydney, most traffic utilises the Southern Freeway. The Princes Highway passes through suburban and central Wollongong, before reconnecting with the freeway traffic south of the city.

 

Completed and current projects

Lawrence Hargrave Dr: new intersection (planning)

Wollongong Northern Distributor Extension: Bellambi Ln – Bulli, $72M (2009)

Oak Flats Interchange (29 Oct 2001)

Oak Flats – Dunmore: dual carriageways $130M (2009)

North Kiama Bypass (open to traffic)

Berry Bypass (planning)

Pambula Bridge and approaches, $17M (2008)

 

 

Hume Highway (RTA: SH 2) (National Highway 31)

Connected Centres: Sydney, Campbelltown, Mittagong, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Holbrook, Albury (continues into Victoria to Melbourne)

The Hume Highway is Australia's busiest interstate artery, linking the metropolises of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. It is named after the explorer Hamilton Hume who, with William Hovell, made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Phillip (Melbourne) and back in 1824-1825. Much of the route of today's highway follows Hume and Hovell's route, particularly in Victoria.

Over the last 20 years the Hume Highway has been progressively upgraded to freeway standards (four lane divided) on both sides of the Murray River. On the Victoria side, the highway is almost 100% freeway standard to the outskirts of Melbourne (with new works underway to connect it to Melbourne's Western Ring Road). In NSW, freeway and divided highway conditions exist from Sydney's outskirts to west of Jugiong. Upgrading of the Hume Highway's route commenced with the construction of the Southwestern Freeway through Sydney's outer south-western suburbs. This freeway later adopted the "Hume Highway" name, replacing the outdated orignial route of the Hume through Camden and Picton and over the Razorback Range. Later upgrade projects saw the 4 lane divided conditions extended. Heading southbound from Sydney, these projects included the Mittagong Bypass, Berrima Bypass, Goulburn Bypass, Cullarin Range Deviation, Yass Bypass and most recently the Bookham Bypass. Other less prominent projects filled the gaps between these major ones. Between Yass and Albury, such projects as the Bookham, Jugiong, Gundagai Bypasses and the Snowy Mountains Highway and Sturt Highway interchanges have started to sporadically fill a long section of two-lane substandard highway.

An interesting feature of the Gundagai Bypass is the Sheahans Bridge, a long 2 lane bridge over the Murrumbidgee River flood plain. There has been talk, but no definite action, of duplicating this bridge. The NSW Government's Action for Transport 2010 program includes a number of Hume Highway projects such as the Coolac Bypass, Sheahans Bridge Duplication and Albury Bypass. In all it allows for full divided highway conditions to the Victorian border by 2010.

Current and completed projects

Coolac Bypass, $145M (2008)

West St Interchange (North Gundagai), $8.9M (2006)

Sheahan Bridge Duplication (planning)

Tarcutta Truck Facility, $6.5M (2006)

Albury-Wodonga Freeway, $518M (2007)

 

Future projects that will fill the gaps to make the Hume Hwy fully dual carriageway include Tarcutta Bypass, upgrades around Kyeamba and Little Billabong, Holbrook Bypass and upgrades between Holbrook and Albury.

 

Federal Highway (RTA: SH 3) (National Highway 23)

Connected Centres: Goulburn, Canberra (ACT)

The Federal Highway is short but can claim the title of being the only highway in NSW that is fully four-lane divided for its entire length. Over the past 15 years the highway has been gradually upgraded to a high standard dual carriageway highway. Recent projects that have completed include the Sutton Interchange-ACT Border and Lake George sections. The Federal Highway crosses into the ACT, where a current project to upgrade that section is underway. Ultimately, the Federal Highway may join a new upgraded eastern bypass of Canberra linking with the northern end of the Monaro Highway.

 

Snowy Mountains Highway (RTA: SH 4) (National Route 18)

Connected Centres: Tathra, Bega, Bemboka, Cooma, Adaminaby, Tumut, Adelong, Hume Hwy

The Snowy Mountains Highway is a quiet and relatively short highway that is probably one of Australia's most varied elevation wise. Commencing at the seaside village of Tathra, east of Bega, the Snowy Mountains Highway heads west across the Great Dividing Range then through the Australian Alps before terminating at the Hume Highway near the Sturt Highway junction. For 46km south of Cooma, the Snowy Mountains Hwy shares a route with the Monaro Highway. The Snowy Mountains Highway carries low traffic volumes, and is narrow and winding in places. There are currently no major upgrade or project plans for this highway.

 

Great Western Highway (RTA: SH 5) (National Route 32)

Control Cities: Sydney, Parramatta, Penrith, Katoomba, Lithgow, Bathurst

The Great Western Highway definitely lives up to its name, being the only major western artery leaving Sydney, linking it and the coast to most of central NSW. Name wise, the highway commences at Parramatta, with Parramatta Road serving the link between that city and Sydney. The highway is heavily trafficked along its entire length and it definitely qualifies for upgrading to 4 lanes for its entire length. Many sections have been upgraded, and ongoing projects, particularly across the Blue Mountains, see this highway constantly evolving into a high standard road. Due to space constraints across the Blue Mountains, much of the highway bears the characteristics of a suburban arterial road, in spite of widening and duplication projects. The sensitive issue of a bypass or major limited access upgrading across the Blue Mountains is inevitably raised from time to time, though this future route is most likely to follow a path further to the north along Bells Line of Road.

 

Heading out of the Sydney metropolitan area, the Great Western Highway begins its life as a busy urban arterial road forming a major transport spine for western Sydney, and is complemented by Western Motorway or M4.

A 12-year upgrade program for the Great Western and Mitchell Highways has been launched for the section between Penrith and Orange. The plan is to deliver 4 lanes to Katoomba and mostly 3 lanes as far as Lithgow.

 

Proposed, current, and completed projects include:

• Lapstone Hill – extend median barrier and add westbound shoulder for cyclists (under construction)
• Blaxland – four lanes (completed 2001)
• Warrimoo – four lanes and pedestrian bridge (completed July 2000)
• Valley Heights – four lanes and pedestrian bridge (completed July 2000)
• Coomassie Shops – four lanes including pedestrian refuges, median fencing, cycle lanes and parking bays (completed December 2003)
• Faulconbridge – four lanes and pedestrian bridge at railway station (completed June 2001)
• Linden Bends – staged four lane upgrade, included three new bridges and pedestrian signals at Linden Railway Station (fully completed August 2003)
• Woodford-Hazelbrook – Proposed four-lane upgrade from Winbourne Rd (Woodford) to Ferguson Ave (Hazelbrook) including new underpass under Western Railway at Oaklands Rd.
• Lawson (Section 1: Ferguson Ave – Honour Ave) – Proposed four-lane upgrade.
• Lawson (Section 2: Honour Ave – Ridge St) – Proposed four-lane upgrade.
• Bullaburra-Wentworth Falls – Future upgrade project.
• Wentworth Falls East (Tablelands Rd-Station St) – Proposed four-lane upgrade.
• Wentworth Falls West (Falls Rd-West St) – Four-lane upgrade completed 7/2004
• Leura-Katoomba (Willow Park Ave-East View Ave) – Four-lane upgrade, including underpass at Leura Mall (completed mid-2006)
• Leura-Katoomba (East View Ave-Bowling Green Ave) – four lane upgrade (2008)
• Shell Corner – Four-lane upgrade (completed 2004)

 

East of Lithgow several projects around Hartley and River Lett Hill are planned. While the highway passes through the western edge of the city of Lithgow, long term planning will require a bypass or upgrading. Immediately west of Lithgow are several stretches of dual carriageway, among the earliest constructed in NSW. Long term planning could include a bypass around Bathurst.

 

Mid Western Highway (RTA: SH 6) (National Route 24)

Connected Centres: Bathurst, Cowra, Grenfell, West Wyalong, Hay

The Mid Western Highway traverses the central western slopes and tablelands of NSW, passing through fertile agricultural countryside. Along its length, the Mid Western's traffic volumes steadily decrease as it heads west in to less populated areas.

 

Mitchell Hwy (RTA: SH 7) (National Routes 32 and 71)

Connected Centres: Bathurst, Orange, Molong, Wellington, Dubbo, Narromine, Nyngan, Bourke (continues into Queensland to Charleville)

The Mitchell Highway could be considered a continuation of the Great Western Highway as it heads west and northwest to link much of Northwestern NSW to Sydney. This highway is named after explorer Major Thomas Mitchell who explored much of western NSW and Victoria. He was also Surveyor-General of NSW, succeeding John Oxley in 1827 and oversaw the construction of many roads and bridges across the colony.

 

Barrier Highway (RTA: SH 8) (National Route 32)

Connected Centres: Nyngan, Cobar, Wilcannia, Broken Hill (continues into South Australia to Adelaide)

The Barrier Highway is New South Wales' real western highway, crossing the arid western half of the state linking the eastern half to Broken Hill and South Australia. It is believed the highway is named such because it crosses a natural "barrier", the arid central Australian core that was seen by early settlers as a barrier to their westward agricultural expansion.

 

New England Highway (RTA: SH 9) (National Highway 15)

Connected Centres: Newcastle, Maitland, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Scone, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield, (continues into Queensland to Toowoomba and Nanango)

The New England Highway carries the Sydney-Brisbane section of the National Highway across the Hunter Valley and Northern Tablelands. This route was selected for the National Highway rather than the more obvious Pacific Highway for a number of reasons. The New England Highway carries considerably less traffic than the Pacific Highway. The Federal government could also have selected it so to avoid being responsible to fully fund the gargantuan Pacific Highway upgrade that is currently underway. Nonetheless, the New England Highway is generally a high standard wide 2-lane highway with many overtaking lanes and a number of dual carriageway sections. Traffic continues to increase on the New England, particularly on the southern end. Plans for a new freeway from the F3 to north of Branxton will see the Maitland urban complex bypassed. The F3-Branxton Highway Link will leave the F3 near the Newcastle Link Road. Other major projects on the New England Highway of note are the Armidale Bypass and the Tamworth Relief Route. Ultimately Tamworth will require a more substantial bypass. Planning has commenced for a bypass of Muswellbrook. A number of large towns on the highway will possibly become bypassed in the future: Singleton, Aberdeen, Scone, Murrurundi, Uralla, Guyra, Glen Innes, and Tenterfield. A goal has been set to achieve 80% dual carriageway between Newcastle and Muswellbrook by 2010 by the NSW Action for Transport 2010 program and the RTA in their 2000 Annual Report.

 

Pacific Highway (RTA: SH 10) (National Route 1)

Connected Centres: Sydney, Newcastle, Taree, Kempsey, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Ballina, Tweed Heads (continues into Queensland to Brisbane)

The Pacific Highway generally follows the popular and populous coastal strip between Sydney and Brisbane. Second only to the Hume, and probably at times surpassing it, the Pacific Highway carries high volumes of traffic. At its southern end, between Sydney and Newcastle, it is secondary to the F3 Sydney-Newcastle Freeway, but between Hexham and Coffs Harbour and between Ballina and Tweed Heads, the Pacific carries above average traffic volumes. Major upgrade projects have been completed, are under construction, and are planned, to bring this highway up to a high standard. For greater detail, visit the Pacific Highway page.

 

Oxley Highway (RTA: SH 11) (National Route 34)

Connected Centres: Port Macquarie, Wauchope, Walcha, Tamworth, Gunnedah, Coonabarabran, Gilgandra, Warren, Nevertire (Mitchell Hwy)

The Oxley Highway is named after the explorer John Oxley, who in 1818 explored the Macquarie River area, then headed east to the Hunter River. The highway's route follows roughly the same route that Oxley and his party followed. The Oxley Highway starts in Port Macquarie, and forms the main link from Port Macquarie to the Pacific Highway, where there is an elevated roundabout interchange. Initially the Pacific Highway passed through Port Macquarie prior to the realignment associated with the new bridge over the Hastings River in the 1960s. West of the Pacific Highway the Oxley Highway crosses the Hastings Valley before winding its way across the Great Dividing Range to the tablelands. This section sees relatively low traffic. Upon meeting the New England Highway the Oxley Highway meets the first of its two shared routes. The Oxley Highway forms a secondary "secret" route to the New England Highway, whose path it shares between Bendemeer and West Tamworth. It is also "secret" from north of Coonabarabran to Gilgandra where it shares the route of the Newell Highway before turning west and becomes again a low traffic highway through Warren and across the Macquarie River to the Mitchell Highway.  The Oxley Highway carries high levels of traffic between the Pacific Highway and central Port Macquarie.  Planning has commenced for a major upgrade between the Pacific Hwy and Wrights Rd.

 

Gwydir Highway (RTA: SH 12) (National Route 38)

Connected Centres: Grafton, Glen Innes, Inverell, Warialda, Moree, Collarenebri, Walgett

The Gwydir Highway, named for its crossing near and parallel to the Gwydir River in northwestern NSW, is another low traffic highway linking the Northern Rivers to the Tablelands and further to the central Darling Basin. The Gwydir River was named in 1827 by explorer Allan Cunningham after Lord Gwydir. Between Grafton and Glen Innes a large section of the highway almost 100km long was deviated in the late 1950s. The original route followed a more southerly path through Newton Boyd. The new section was opened in 1960 and has historic significance in that it was the first road of its kind in Australia to be surveyed using aerial photographic interpretation. The new route features the distinctive "kink" that is clearly visible on all maps. Initially the highway terminated at Collarenebri. In recent years however, the Gwydir Highway has been officially connected to a more logical western terminus: on the Castlereagh Hwy just north of Walgett.

 

Cumberland Highway (RTA: SH 13)

Connected Centres: Hornsby (F3), Parramatta (M4), Liverpool (M5)

This highway, completely urbanised in its scope, is the current main north-south link across the Sydney metropolitan area for the National Highway. It is named after the County of Cumberland, which covers the Sydney Basin. The name Cumberland was chosen in 1788 for the county by Governor Arthur Phillip in honour of Ernest Augustus, then Duke of Cumberland. Now largely superseded by the Westlink M7 Motorway, the Cumberland Highway is still one of Sydney's busiest and most important arteries. Over the last 10 years major upgrades have occurred to bring it up to a standard that can handle its ever increasing traffic volumes. Overall, however, these measures can only temporarily satiate the growing menace of traffic congestion. The Cumberland Highway has only been a complete entity in recent years and is actually a conglomeration of a dozen or more formerly suburban streets and roads. Joined by small links and curves, easily visible on a map, the Cumberland is just an overall name. The actual roads it follows still retain their original names. The Cumberland Highway can claim a couple of semi-freeway sections such as part of James Ruse Drive.

 

Sturt Highway (RTA: SH 14) (National Highway 20)

Connected Centres: Hume Highway, Wagga Wagga, Narrandera, Hay, Balranald, Buronga (continues into Victoria and South Australia)

The Sturt Highway forms part of the National Highway between Sydney and Adelaide. It is named after the explorer Charles Sturt who explored the lower Murray River region in 1838. Commencing at a junction with the Hume Highway, the Sturt Highway crosses southwest NSW's Riverina region. The Sturt Highway generally parallels the Murrumbidgee River, then later the Murray River. It leaves NSW crossing the Murray River into the Victorian city of Mildura.

 

Barton Highway (RTA: SH 15) (National Highway 25)

Connected Centres: Yass, Canberra (ACT)

Named after Australia's first prime minister, Edmund Barton, the Barton Highway is one of the Canberra Connectors on the National Highway system. Though carrying less traffic than its sister highway, the Federal Highway, the Barton Highway sees increasing traffic volumes. Long term plans have it becoming fully dual carriageway, though these plans are low priorities in the overall needs of the statewide network. Much of the route inside the ACT is already dual carriageway. Planning has commenced for a dual carriageway bypass of Murrumbateman and for upgrading between Murrumbateman and the ACT border.  The northernmost section of the Barton Highway, actually an extension to join it to the Yass Bypass on the Hume Highway, is fully dual carriageway.

 

Bruxner Highway (RTA: SH 16) (National Route 44)

Connected Centres: Ballina (Pacific Hwy), Lismore, Casino, Tenterfield, Yetman, Boggabilla (Newell Hwy)

The Bruxner Highway is the northernmost east-west highway in NSW. Starting at the Pacific Highway just west of Ballina, the Bruxner Highway crosses the hills and valleys of the upper Richmond and Clarence valleys before rising to cross the Great Dividing Range. West of Tenterfield the low traffic highway follows the McIntyre River to Boggabilla, just south of Goondiwindi QLD on the NSW side. From decrease from east to west, with the heaviest sections being between Casino and Ballina. The heaviest traffic is between Ballina and Lismore. Plans are in progress for the construction of a long awaited bypass fast-tracked in order to remove the through traffic from the village centre. The Alstonville Bypass will initially be limited access with a single carriageway (a "super two"), though provision will be made for future duplication. In the late 1980s the section known as the Ballina Cutting was extensively upgraded, straightening and widening a former narrow and winding stretch between Ballina and Alstonville. Through Goonellabah, an eastern suburb of Lismore, the highway was duplicated, beautified and landscaped.  In recent years, the western segment of the Bruxner Highway has been stripped of its National Route status, and now carries the name only west of Tenterfield.

 

Newell Highway (RTA: SH 17) (National Highway 39)

Connected Centres: Tocumwal (enters from Victoria), Finley, Jerilderie, Narrandera, Ardlethan, West Wyalong, Forbes, Parkes, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Coonabarabran, Narrabri, Moree, Boggabilla (continues into Queensland to Goondiwindi)

The Newell Highway crosses NSW parallel to the coast and forms part of the Melbourne-Brisbane corridor of the National Highway. The Newell Highway carries a large volume of heavy truck traffic. Traffic volumes continue to increase in this busy interstate artery placing greater demands on towns along its route. Bypass and town centre relief projects will become more prevalent on the Newell Highway in the near future. Currently planned are bypasses for Coonabarabran (feasibility study) and Moree Town Centre (approved with detail design in progress).

 

Castlereagh Highway (RTA: SH 18, MR 55) (National Route 55, State Route 86)

Connected Centres: Lithgow (Great Western Hwy), Mudgee, Gulgong, Dunedoo, Gilgandra, Coonamble, Walgett (continues into Queensland)

The Castlereagh Highway is named for the river it parallels in north-western New South Wales. Originally the Castlereagh Highway was only named as the section north of Gilgandra, the section bearing National Route 55. In recent years the name has been extended south to include State Route 86.

 

Monaro Highway (RTA: SH 19) (National Route 23)

Connected Centres: Canberra, Cooma, Bombala, Victorian Border

The Monaro Highway is named for the geographic region of NSW's south eastern tablelands that it crosses. The highway sees generally light traffic, particularly in some southern stretches where it is still unsealed. Between Canberra and Cooma the highway carries frequent tourist traffic to NSW's snowfields. The Monaro Highway ends at the Victorian Border, however, the highway continues into Victoria as the Cann Valley Highway (B23).

 

Riverina Highway (RTA: SH 20) (National Route 58)

Connected Centres: Hume Weir, Albury, Howlong, Corowa, Berrigan, Finley, Deniliquin
The Riverina Highway, named for the geographic region it traverses, is a light traffic highway connecting regional and rural centres of NSW's agricultural south.

 

Cobb Highway (RTA: SH 21) (National Route 75)

Connected Centres: Moama, Deniliquin, Hay, Ivanhoe, Wilcannia

The Cobb Highway is a northern extension of Victoria's Northern Highway (B75), crossing the Murray River from Echuca and forming a north-south thoroughfare across the Riverina. North of Hay the highway's quality substantially deteriorates, passing through isolated interior areas. Much of the length between Booligal (north of Hay) and Wilcannia is unsealed, with the exception of a small section around Ivanhoe. Plans to seal an unpaved 38km section around Mossgiel, which will see the highway then fully sealed from Moama to Ivanhoe.

 

Silver City Highway (RTA: SH 22) (National Route 79)

Connected Centres: Buronga, Wentworth, Broken Hill, Tibooburra, QLD Border

The Silver City Highway crosses NSW's western arid interior. Though named continuously from border to border, the northern and southern sections have quite different characteristics. The southern section, Wentworth and Mildura to Broken Hill, is fully sealed and carries the National Route 79 shield (a northern extension of Victoria's Calder Hwy (A79). North of Broken Hill the highway loses its National shield and is largely unsealed and very isolated.

 

Newcastle Inner City Bypass (RTA: SH 23) (State Route 123)

Connected Centres: Bennetts Green (Pacific Hwy), Lambton, Jesmond, Sandgate (Pacific Hwy)

Newcastle's Inner City Bypass has long been planned as a continuous freeway standard road for its entire length. For many years, though, it has utilised local arterial roads as an interim measure. The first short section of freeway opened in February 1990 as a bypass of Jesmond. In March 2003, the 6km West Charlestown Bypass was added to the route. Planning has commenced for the northern section of the freeway (Shortland-Sandgate). The remaining section between the Charlestown and Jesmond Bypasses is in long term planning.

 

Mount Lindesay Road (formerly RTA: SH 24) (formerly National Route 13)

Connected Centres: Tenterfield, Legume, Woodenbong, Summerland Way (SR 91), QLD Border

The former Mt Lindesay Hwy in NSW was decommissioned by the RTA in the 1990s and has reverted to local road status. The road was in very poor condition and was no longer deemed worth of its "highway" status, while also being stripped of its National Route 13 shield. The highway still exists as a named and numbered entity in Queensland, though the route number has been changed to State Route 13. The southern section of the road now carries Tourist Route 7 between Tenterfield and Stanthorpe. The northern 5km of the former highway in NSW is now part of the Summerland Way (State Route 91).

 

Illawarra Highway (RTA: SH 25) (National Route 48)

Connected Centres: Albion Park, Robertson, Moss Vale, Hume Highway

This short highway, named after the geographical area it crosses, connects the Wollongong metropolitan area with NSW's Southern Highlands. It carries moderate volumes of inter-regional traffic, though its standard is good to poor considering this volume. It crosses very picturesque countryside. One prominent feature of the Illawarra Highway is the steep and winding Macquarie Pass, which renders the road unsuitable for large trucks and articulated vehicles.

 

Peats Ridge Road (formerly RTA: SH 26)

Decommissioned as State Highway following the opening of Calga-Somersby section of the F3.

 

Golden Highway (RTA: SH 27) (State Route 84)

Connected Centres: Minimbah (New England Hwy), (Singleton), Merriwa, Dunedoo, Dubbo

 

Carnarvon Highway (RTA: SH 28) (National Route 46)

Connected Centres: Moree, Mungindi (conitnues into Queensland)

The Carnarvon Highway is a recent addition to the NSW Highway Network. It is actually a southern continuation of the Carnarvon Hwy in Queensland, named such because it leads to the Carnarvon Gorge area.

 

Kamilaroi Highway (RTA: SH 29) (National Route 37 (part))

Connected Centres: Willow Tree (New England Hwy), Quirindi, Gunnedah, Boggabri, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, Brewarrina, Bourke

The 602km Kamilaroi Hwy was officially proclaimed on 13 February, 1999. It is named after the Kamilaroi Aboriginal people of north western NSW and provides an all-weather east-west road through north western NSW. The section from Willow Tree to Narrabri carries National Route 37.

 

Banjo Patterson Way

Connected Centres: Molong, Cumnock, Yeoval, Dubbo

 

The Bucketts Way

Connected Centres: Pacific Hwy, Stroud, Gloucester, Krambach, Nabiac

 

Burley Griffin Way (State Route 94)

Connected Centres: Hume Hwy, Binalong, Harden, Murrumburrah, Wallendbeen, Stockinbingal, Temora, Ariah Park, Ardlethan, Barellan, Griffith

Planning has commenced for a deviation around the town of Bowning near this road’s eastern end.

Fossickers Way (State Route 95)

Connected Centres: Tamworth, Manilla, Barraba, Bingara, Warialda, Yetman

 

Henry Lawson Way

Connected Centres: Young, Grenfell, Forbes

 

Irrigation Way

Connected Centres: Narrandera, Leeton, Griffith

 

Kidman Way (State Route 87)

Connected Centres: Newell Hwy, Coleambally, Waddi, Darlington Point, Griffith, Goolgowi, Hillston, Cobar, Bourke

 

Kings Highway (National Route 52)

Connected Centres: Batemans Bay, Braidwood, Bungendore, Queanbeyan

 

Lachlan Valley Way (State Route 81 (part))

Connected Centres: Hume Hwy, Boorowa, Cowra, Gooloogong, Forbes, Condobolin, Lake Cargelligo

State Route 81 only follows the Hume Hwy to Cowra section of Lachlan Valley Way. North of Cowra, State Route 81 diverges to Canowindra, Cudal and Molong.

 

The Lakes Way

Connected Centres: Bulahdelah (Pacific Hwy), Forster, Tuncurry, Rainbow Flat (Pacific Hwy)

 

Macquarie Valley Way

Connected Centres: Warren, Macquarie Marshes

 

Olympic Highway (National Route 41)

Connected Centres: Cowra, Young, Wallendbeen, Cootamundra, Junee, Wagga Wagga, The Rock, Henty, Culcairn, Hume Hwy

 

State Route 90

Connected Centres: Orange, Manildra, Parkes, Bogan Gate, Condobolin

 

Summerland Way (RTA: Main Road 83) (State Route 91)

Connected Centres: Grafton, Casino, Kyogle, QLD Border (joins QLDs Mt Lindesay Hwy (State Route 13))

The Summerland Way, named after a colloquial name for the region it traverses, provides an alternative north-south route between the Northern Rivers and Brisbane.

 

Thunderbolts Way

Connected Centres: Gloucester, Barrington, Nowendoc, Walcha, Uralla

 

Waterfall Way (State Route 78)

Connected Centres: Raleigh (Pacific Hwy), Bellingen, Dorrigo, Ebor, Armidale