State Highway 3 (New Zealand)

State Highway 3
State Highway 3
Route information
	Maintained by NZ Transport Agency
Length	500 km (310 mi)
Major junctions
North end	SH 1C (Kahikatea Drive/Lorne Street) at Melville, in Hamilton
	SH 4 south at Eight Mile Junction (11 km (6.8 mi) south of Te Kūiti); SH 4 north (Putiki Drive) at Whanganui; SH 1 north (High Street) at Bulls; SH 1 south (Wellington Road) at Sanson;
South end	SH 2 (Vogel Street/McLean Street) at Woodville
Location
Country	New Zealand
Primary; destinations	Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Ōtorohanga, Te Kūiti, Piopio, Awakino, Mokau, Mount Messenger, New Plymouth, Egmont Village, Inglewood, Midhurst, Stratford, Eltham, Normandy, Hāwera, Pātea, Waverly, Whanganui, Bulls, Sanson, Palmerston North
Highway system
	New Zealand state highways; Motorways and expressways; List;

State Highway 3 (SH 3) is one of New Zealand's eight national state highways. It serves the west coast of the country's North Island and forms a link between State Highway 1 and State Highway 2. Distances are measured from north to south.

For most of its length SH 3 is a two-lane single carriageway, with at-grade intersections and property accesses, both in rural and urban areas.