Gold Coast Highway –New South Wales | |
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| Gold Coast Highway at Second Avenue looking north towards Surfers Paradise, featuring the Light Rail in the median | |
| General information | |
| Type | Highway |
| Length | 39.6 km (25 mi)[1] |
| Route number(s) |  State Route 2 |
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| Major junctions | |
| North end | Binstead Way Oxenford, Queensland |
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| South end | Sugarwood Drive Tweed Heads West, New South Wales |
| Location(s) | |
| Major suburbs | Southport, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads |
| Highway system | |
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Gold Coast Highway links the coastal suburbs of the Gold Coast in south eastern Queensland such as Miami, Mermaid Beach, Tugun, Bilinga and across the border of New South Wales to the Tweed Heads suburb of Tweed Heads West. At 39.6 kilometres (24.6 mi)[1] in length, the highway runs just west of Pacific Motorway at Pacific Pines to Pacific Motorway at Tweed Heads West. It passes through the numerous popular tourist areas including Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, a commercial centre at Southport, residential areas, shopping centres and the Gold Coast (Coolangatta) Airport.
It is characterised by a variety of urban landscapes, ranging from:
- high-density high rises between Southport and Broadbeach
- low rise apartments in Palm Beach and Bilinga
- low-rise residential areas at Miami, Tugun and Labrador
- shopping at Southport and Broadbeach
- entertainment precincts at Broadbeach and Surfers Paradise
- historic motels at Mermaid Beach
- light industry at Arundel
- native bushland at Coombabah Lake wetlands, Burleigh Head National Park and Currumbin Hill
- parklands, sport and recreation at the Southport Broadwater Parklands and many smaller reserves
- coastal views at Currumbin Creek
The highest point of the highway is 42 metres at Currumbin Hill.[2]
- ^ a b "Gold Coast Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Track". Gold Coast Highway. GPSies. Retrieved 2 March 2014.