List of road routes in the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory's National Highways. Some other road routes are also shown.

Road routes in the Northern Territory assist drivers navigating roads throughout the territory, by identifying important through-routes. The Northern Territory's National Highways are the main routes connecting Darwin to the adjacent states of Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. National Routes spur off the National Highways, and are other routes of national importance, while the remaining significant routes are designated as State Routes.^[1][2]

According to the New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services, the Northern Territory has begun converting their numbered routes to alphanumeric routes, with a "progressive replacement" scheme that sees alphanumeric route markers introduced only when signs are replaced.^[3]

National Highways and Routes

There are three national highways and three national routes in the Northern Territory.^[1][2]

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Route	Planned alphanumeric route[4]	Component roads	From	Via	To	Length	Notes
National Highway 1	A1	Victoria Highway Stuart Highway	WA–NT border (near Keep River National Park)	Katherine	Daly Waters		Continues east from Daly Waters as National Route 1
		Stuart Highway	Katherine	Adelaide River	Darwin		Partially signed as alphanumeric route A1; spur section connecting to Darwin
National Highway 66	B66	Barkly Highway	Tennant Creek		Qld–NT border (near Ranken)
National Highway 87	A87	Stuart Highway	Daly Waters	Alice Springs	SA–NT border (near Kulgera)
National Route 1	B1	Carpentaria Highway	Daly Waters	Borroloola	Qld–NT border (near Wollogorang Airport)		Continues north from Daly Waters as National Highway 1
National Route 80	C80	Buchanan Highway	Victoria Highway (29.4 km (18 mi) south-east of Timber Creek	Top Springs	Birdum	393 km (244 mi)
National Route 96	B96	Buntine Highway	Willeroo, NT	Top Springs	Duncan Road, Nicholson, WA	581 km (361 mi)

State Routes

State routes are numbered based on their position in the territory, generally increasing in number from south to north.^[1]

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Route	Component roads	Planned Alphanumeric Replacement[5]	From	Via	To	Length	Notes
State Route 2	Namatjira Drive		Larapinta Drive, Hugh	West MacDonnell National Park	Larapinta Drive, Namatjira
State Route 3	Luritja Road		Lasseter Highway	Petermann	Watarrka National Park
State Route 4	Lasseter Highway		Erldunda		Uluru
	Tjukaruru Road Great Central Road		Uluru		WA–NT border (near Kaltukatjara)
State Route 5	Tanami Road		Burt Plain	Yuendumu	WA–NT border (near Tanami)
State Route 6	Larapinta Drive		Watarrka National Park	Hermannsburg	Alice Springs
State Route 8	Ross Highway Arltunga Road		Ross	Ross River	Arltunga Historical Reserve
State Route 11	Tablelands Highway		Tablelands	Creswell	Cape Crawford
State Route 12	Plenty Highway		Burt Plain	Atitjere	Qld–NT border (near Tobermorey)	496 km (308 mi)
State Route 14	Sandover Highway		Plenty Highway, Anmatjere	Ampilatwatja	Qld–NT border (near Lake Nash)
State Route 16	Barkly Stock Route Tablelands Highway Calvert Road		Lake Woods	Creswell	Calvert
State Route 20	Roper Highway		Mataranka		Roper Bar
State Route 21	Kakadu Highway		Pine Creek	Kakadu National Park	Jabiru
State Route 23	Dorat Road
State Route 24	Central Arnhem Road		Venn	Barunga	Bulman
State Route 28	Daly River Road Port Keats Road		Robin Falls	Daly River	Wadeye	256 km (159 mi)
State Route 30	Batchelor Road Rum Jungle Road Litchfield Park Road		Coomalie Creek	Rakula	Blackmore	145 km (90 mi)
State Route 34	Cox Peninsula Road		Noonamah		Cox Peninsula		Partially signed as alphanumeric route B34
State Route 36	Arnhem Highway		McMinns Lagoon	Jabiru	Kakadu National Park	227 km (141 mi)

See also

• List of highways in the Northern Territory

References