Gold Coast Highway
Gold Coast Highway –New South Wales | |
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| Gold Coast Highway at Second Avenue looking north towards Surfers Paradise, featuring the Light Rail in the median | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 39.6 km (25 mi) |
| Route number(s) | State Route 2 |
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| Major junctions | |
| North end | Binstead Way Oxenford, Queensland |
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| South end | Sugarwood Drive Tweed Heads West, New South Wales |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Southport, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads |
| Highway system | |
Gold Coast Highway links the coastal suburbs of the Gold Coast in South East Queensland such as Southport, Surfers Paradise, Burleigh Heads and Tugun to across the border of New South Wales to the Tweed Heads suburb of Tweed Heads West. At 39.6 kilometres (24.6 mi) in length, the highway runs just west of Pacific Motorway at Helensvale to Pacific Motorway at Tweed Heads West.
It is characterised by a variety of urban landscapes, ranging from:
- high-density high rises between Southport and Broadbeach
- low rise apartments in Palm Beach and Bilinga
- low-rise residential areas at Tugun, Miami and Labrador
- shopping at Southport, Broadbeach, and Biggera Waters
- entertainment precincts at Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise
- light industry at Arundel
- native bushland at Coombabah Lake wetlands at Arundel, Burleigh Head National Park at Burleigh Heads and Currumbin Hill at Currumbin
- parklands, sport and recreation at the Broadwater Parklands at Southport and many smaller reserves
- coastal views at Currumbin Creek bridge between Palm Beach and Currumbin
The highest point of the highway is 42 metres at Currumbin Hill at Currumbin.