Pacific Highway (Australia)

Pacific Highway

New South Wales
Pacific Highway; New South Wales
	View of the Pacific Highway from Wattley Hill Road, New South Wales (c. 2007)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	779 km (484 mi)
Gazetted	August 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 10); December 1930 (QLD)
Route number(s)	M1 (Brunswick Heads–Glenugie); A1 (Glenugie–Raleigh); M1 (Raleigh–Port Macquarie); A1 (Port Macquarie–Hexham); A43 (Hexham–Mayfield West, Newcastle West–Doyalson); B83 (Kariong–Wahroonga); A1 (Wahroonga–Artarmon); Concurrency:; A38 (Roseville–Chatswood);
Former; route number	See Former route numbers
Major junctions
Brunswick Heads to Warabrook
Brunswick Heads to Warabrook
North end	Pacific Motorway
	Bruxner Highway; Big River Way; Big River Way; Waterfall Way; Oxley Highway; New England Highway; Newcastle Inner City Bypass; Industrial Drive;
South end	Maitland Road
Wickham to Tuggerah,; then Ourimbah to Wyoming
Wickham to Tuggerah,; then Ourimbah to Wyoming
Northeast end	Stewart Avenue
	Newcastle Inner City Bypass; Central Coast Highway; Motorway Link;
Southwest end	Mann Street
Kariong to North Sydney
Kariong to North Sydney
North end	Wisemans Ferry Road
	Cumberland Highway; Pacific Motorway; Mona Vale Road; Ryde Road; Gore Hill Freeway; Lane Cove Tunnel;
South end	Warringah Freeway
Location(s)
Major settlements	Ballina, Central Coast, Coffs Harbour, Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Newcastle, Taree, Sydney; Brisbane, Gold Coast
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in New South Wales;

Pacific Highway is a national highway and major transport route of 790 kilometres (490 mi) along the east coast of Australia from Sydney to Brisbane. It is an integral part of Highway 1 which circumnavigates the Australian continent. At its inception, the highway was a single carriageway between Sydney and Brisbane. In Australian culture and as a tourist drive, it remains so. Over time, segments of the highway have been relegated from the route and, or, renamed and between 1996 and 2020, the highway was upgraded to the standards of a controlled-access highway (motorway).