Calder Highway

Calder Highway

Calder Freeway

New South Wales
Calder Freeway facing Mount Macedon
Coordinates
General information
TypeHighway
Length560.9 km (349 mi)[3]
GazettedDecember 1913 (as Main Road)[1]
July 1925 (as State Highway)[2]
Route number(s)
  • A79 (1997–present)
    (VIC/NSW border–Ravenswood)
  • M79 (1997–present)
    (Ravenswood–Niddrie)
  • A790 (1997–present)
    (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood)
  • Concurrencies:
  • A300 (1997–present)
    (Bendigo–Harcourt)
Former
route number
  • Metro Route 40 (1989–2020) (Keilor–Niddrie)
  • National Route 79 (1955–1997/2013) (VIC/NSW)
    Entire route
  • Freeway Route 90 (1972–1987)
    (Keilor–Niddrie)
  • Alternative National Route 79 (1986–1997)
    (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood)
  • Concurrencies:
  • State Route 149 (1986–1997)
    (Bendigo–Harcourt)
Major junctions
North end Silver City Highway
Curlwaa, New South Wales
 
South end Tullamarine Freeway
Airport West, Melbourne
Location(s)
RegionLoddon Mallee, Grampians, Greater Melbourne[4]
Major settlementsMildura, Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Harcourt, Malmsbury, Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon, Gisborne, Diggers Rest, Sunbury
Highway system
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Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to Bendigo on 20 April 2009.

Calder Alternate Highway connects to Calder Highway at either end – just north of Ravenswood, and at Marong – and provides a bypass west of Bendigo.

  1. ^ "Victorian Government Gazette". State Library of Victoria. 28 January 1914. p. 320. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Country Roads Board Victoria. Twelfth Annual Report: for the year ended 30 June 1925". Country Roads Board of Victoria. Melbourne: Victorian Government Library Service. 31 December 1925. p. 3.
  3. ^ "Calder Highway/Freeway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Victoria's Regions". Regional Development Victoria. Victoria State Government. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2022.