Sturt Highway

Sturt Highway

South Australia
–New South Wales
Sturt Highway; South Australia–New South Wales
	B-double truck on Sturt Highway
Coordinates	34.915676°S 138.622745°E (West end); 34.977201°S 138.627219°E (East end);
General information
Type	Highway
Length	947 km (588 mi)
Gazetted	August 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
	Northern Expressway; Barrier Highway; Barossa Valley Way; Goyder Highway; Calder Highway; Silver City Highway; Cobb Highway; Kidman Way; Newell Highway; Olympic Highway;
East end	Hume Motorway; Tarcutta, New South Wales
Location(s)
Region	Barossa Light and Lower North, Murray, Murray and Mallee, Loddon Mallee, Far West, Riverina, South Western Slopes
Major settlements	Nuriootpa, Renmark, Mildura, Balranald, Hay, Narrandera, Wagga Wagga
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in South Australia; Highways in Victoria; Highways in New South Wales;

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.

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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