Calder Highway

Calder Highway

Calder Freeway

Victoria
–New South Wales
Calder Highway; Calder Freeway; Victoria–New South Wales
	Calder Freeway facing Mount Macedon
Coordinates	34°06′41″S 141°59′13″E / 34.111291°S 141.986859°E (Northwest end); 37°44′02″S 144°53′34″E / 37.733940°S 144.892831°E (Southeast end);
General information
Type	Highway
Length	560.9 km (349 mi)
Gazetted	December 1913 (as Main Road); July 1925 (as State Highway)
Route number(s)	A79 (1997–present); (VIC/NSW border–Ravenswood); M79 (1997–present); (Ravenswood–Niddrie); A790 (1997–present); (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood); Concurrencies:; A300 (1997–present); (Bendigo–Harcourt);
Former; route number	Metro Route 40 (1989–2020) (Keilor–Niddrie); National Route 79 (1955–1997/2013) (VIC/NSW); Entire route; Freeway Route 90 (1972–1987); (Keilor–Niddrie); Alternative National Route 79 (1986–1997); (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood); Concurrencies:; State Route 149 (1986–1997); (Bendigo–Harcourt);
Major junctions
Northwest end	Silver City Highway; Curlwaa, New South Wales
	Sturt Highway; Mallee Highway; Sunraysia Highway; Borung Highway; Calder Alternative Highway; Loddon Valley Highway; Midland Highway; Pyrenees Highway; Melton Highway; Western Ring Road;
Southeast end	Tullamarine Freeway; Airport West, Melbourne
Location(s)
Region	Loddon Mallee, Grampians, Greater Melbourne
Major settlements	Mildura, Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Harcourt, Malmsbury, Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon, Gisborne, Diggers Rest, Sunbury
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Victoria; Highways in New South Wales;

Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to Bendigo on 20 April 2009.

Calder Alternate Highway connects to Calder Highway at either end – just north of Ravenswood, and at Marong – and provides a bypass west of Bendigo.