List of road routes in Queensland facts for kids

Road routes in Queensland assist drivers navigating roads throughout the state, by identifying important through-routes. Queensland is in the process of converting to an alphanumeric route numbering system, with a letter denoting the importance and standard of the route. The previous shield-based system consisted of various route types – national highways, national routes, and state routes – with each type depicted by a different route marker design. Some routes have been converted to the alphanumeric system, while other routes are being maintained as shield-based routes – but with signs designed to be subsequentially retrofitted with a replacement alphanumeric route. Tourist drives will continue to use a shield-based system.

Alphanumeric routes and Metroads

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Route	Component roads and streets	From	Via	To	Length	Notes
M1	Pacific Motorway Gateway Motorway Bruce Highway	Tugun (NSW border)	Brisbane	Cooroy	223 km (139 mi)*
M2	Warrego Highway Ipswich Motorway Logan Motorway Gateway Motorway	Brassal	Carole Park and Drewvale	Eight Mile Plains	46 km (29 mi)*
Metroad 2	Granard Road Riawena Road Kessels Road Mt Gravatt–Capalaba Road	Rocklea	Macgregor	Mackenzie	11.4 km (7.1 mi)*
M3 / A3	Pacific Motorway Coronation Drive Boomerang Street Hale Street Inner City Bypass	Eight Mile Plains	Brisbane CBD	Bald Hills	38.3 km (23.8 mi)*	M3
	Lutwyche Road Gympie Road					A3
	Gympie Arterial Road					M3
M4	Port of Brisbane Motorway	Murarrie		Lytton	6.7 km (4.2 mi)*
M5 / A5	Centenary Highway	Deebing Heights	Indooroopilly	Kelvin Grove	47.3 km (29.4 mi)*	A5
	Centenary Highway Centenary Motorway Western Freeway Legacy Way (tunnel)					M5
Metroad 5	Mount Coot-tha Road Frederick Street Rouen Road Boundary Road Macgregor Terrace Jubilee Terrace Elimatta Drive Stewart Road Wardell Street South Pine Road Stafford Road	Toowong	Everton Park	Kedron	13.3 km (8.3 mi)*
Metroad 6	Logan Motorway	Drewvale	Kingston	Loganholme	15 km (9 mi)*
M7 / A7	Ipswich Motorway	Gailes	Woolloongabba	Hendra	33.1 km (21 mi)*	M7
	Ipswich Road					A7
	Clem Jones Tunnel Airport Link (tunnel)					M7
National Highway A1	Bruce Highway	Cooroy	Mackay	Cairns	1,577 km (980 mi)*
National Highway A2	Warrego Highway Landsborough Highway Barkly Highway	Riverview	Toowoomba, Charleville, Longreach, Cloncurry and Mount Isa	Northern Territory border (National Route 66)	1,997 km (1,241 mi)*
Alternate A2	Warrego Highway Mitchell Highway	Morven	Charleville	Augathella	165 km (103 mi)*
A3	New England Highway D'Aguilar Highway Burnett Highway	Glengallan	Toowoomba, Yarraman, Nanango, Goomeri and Biloela	Gracemere	752 km (467 mi)*	Duplexed with State Route 49 through Goomeri. Duplexed with Dawson Highway through Biloela.
A4	Capricorn Highway	Barcaldine	Emerald	Rockhampton	575 km (357 mi)*
A5	Leichhardt Highway	Westwood	Miles	Goondiwindi	577 km (359 mi)*
A6	Flinders Highway	Townsville	Hughenden	Cloncurry	775 km (482 mi)*
A7	Carnarvon Highway Dawson Highway Gregory Highway	Roma	Rolleston, Springsure and Emerald	Black Jack (a suburb of Charters Towers)	874 km (543 mi)*
National Highway A15	Cunningham Highway New England Highway	Riverview	Warwick	Wallangarra	225 km (140 mi)*
National Highway A39	Gore Highway Leichhardt Highway	Toowoomba	Milmerran	Goondiwindi	201 km (125 mi)*
A55	Castlereagh Highway Carnarvon Highway	Hebel	St George	Roma	355 km (221 mi)*
A71	Mitchell Highway	Augathella	Charleville and Cunnamulla	Barringun	394 km (245 mi)*

National Routes

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Route	Component roads and streets	From	Via	To	Length	Notes
National Route 1	Sheridan Street Captain Cook Highway Kennedy Highway Gulf Developmental Road Burke Developmental Road Savannah Way Wills Developmental Road Doomadgee Road	Bruce Highway, Cairns	Smithfield, Kuranda, Mareeba, Atherton, Mount Garnet, Georgetown, Croydon, Normanton, Burketown and Doomadgee	Carpentaria Highway, Northern Territory border	1,153 km (716 mi)*
National Route 13	Beaudesert Road Mount Lindesay Highway	Moorooka	Beaudesert	Summerland Way (NSW State Route B91 at QLD/NSW border)	116 km (72 mi)*
National Route 17	Brisbane Valley Highway D'Aguilar Highway	Blacksoil	Esk	Yarraman	135 km (84 mi)*	Duplexed with State Route 85 from Esk to Harlin
National Route 42	Cunningham Highway	Ipswich	Warwick	Goondiwindi	327 km (203 mi)*
National Route 46	Carnarvon Highway	St George	Thallon	Mungindi	111 km (69 mi)*
National Route 83	Eyre Developmental Road Diamantina Developmental Road Barkly Highway Burke Developmental Road	Birdsville	Boulia, Dajarra, Mount Isa and Cloncurry	Normanton	1,185 km (736 mi)*	Duplexed with Barkly Highway (A2) from Mount Isa to Cloncurry