Sturt Highway

Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions along the route.

Sturt Highway

New South Wales
B-double truck on Sturt Highway
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length947 km (588 mi)
GazettedAugust 1928 (NSW, as Main Road 58)
August 1933 (NSW, as State Highway 14)
July 1938 (SA)
1939 (VIC)
Route number(s) A20 (2013/2017–present)
Former
route number
  • National Highway A20 (1997/1998–2013/2017)
    (Gawler–VIC/NSW border)
  • National Highway 20 (1992–1997/1998)
    (Gawler–VIC/NSW border)
  • National Highway 20 (1992–2013)
    (VIC/NSW border–Tarcutta)
  • National Route 20 (1955–1992)
    Entire route
Major junctions
West end Gawler Bypass
Gawler, South Australia
 
East end Hume Motorway
Tarcutta, New South Wales
Location(s)
RegionBarossa Light and Lower North, Murray, Murray and Mallee, Loddon Mallee, Far West, Riverina, South Western Slopes
Major settlementsNuriootpa, Renmark, Mildura, Balranald, Hay, Narrandera, Wagga Wagga
Highway system

Initially an amalgam of trunk routes, the 947-kilometre (588 mi) Sturt Highway was proclaimed a state highway in 1933. In 1955, the Australian Government gazetted the highway as a National Route, and upgraded it to a National Highway in 1992, forming the Sydney-Adelaide Link. Sturt Highway is allocated as route A20 for its entire length, the majority of which is a single carriageway, and freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard towards its western terminus in Gawler.

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