Illawarra Highway

The Illawarra Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia. It connects Wollongong to the Southern Highlands and links the Princes Highway and Hume Highway.[1][2]

Illawarra Highway New South Wales
General information
Type	Highway
Length	62 km (39 mi)
Route number(s)	A48 (Entire Route)
Former route number	National Route 48 (Prior to 2013)
Major junctions
West end	Hume Highway Sutton Forest, New South Wales
	for full list see major intersections
East end	Princes Highway (National Route 1) Albion Park Rail, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlements	Moss Vale Robertson
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

Route

It is named after the geographical area it crosses, the Illawarra region. Typical scenery is beautiful as it crosses the Macquarie Valley (Shellharbour) and the spectacular Macquarie Pass, with many hairpin bends and steep gradients, unsuitable for large and articulated vehicles. Trucks are instead advised to use the Mount Ousley Road (Route B88), also known as Picton Road. The pass has one of the southernmost stands of Australia's sub tropical rainforest.

The main towns en route are Albion Park in the Shellharbour area and Robertson and Moss Vale on the Southern Highlands. Spectacular National Parks surrounds them. Both Robertson and Moss Vale are quaint country towns with 19th-century buildings still intact, While Albion Park is an inland town of Shellharbour

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km[3]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Wingecarribee	Sutton Forest	0.0	0.0	Hume Highway (M31) / Canyonleigh Road west – Sydney, Goulburn, Canyonleigh	Western terminus at diamond interchange; continues west as Canyonleigh Road
		6.8	4.2	Exeter Road – Exeter
	Moss Vale	13.5	8.4	Argyle Road (Old Hume Highway) east / Sutton Road north – Bowral, Mittagong	Roundabout
		17.3	10.7	Nowra Road – Kangaroo Valley, Nowra
	Avoca	23.6	14.7	Sheepwash Road – Nowra, Mittagong
	Robertson	37.7	23.4	Jamberoo Mountain Road – Jamberoo, Kiama
Shellharbour	Albion Park	59.4	36.9	Tongarra Road east / Terry Street south – Shellharbour, Kiama	Traffic light intersection
	Albion Park Rail	62.1	38.6	Princes Motorway (M1) north / Princes Highway (A1) south – Wollongong, Sydney, Kiama, Nowra	Eastern terminus at roundabout
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in New South Wales

References

1. National Route 48, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
2. Illawarra Highway Archived 2 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hotkey. Retrieved 11 May 2008.
3. Google (3 February 2016). "Illawarra Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 3 February 2016.