Best route Adelaide to Gold Coast

Lonerider · Veteran Member

Best route Adelaide to Gold Coast

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Ok you said Quickest .. So up through Wagga, Bathurst , New England highway . The coastal roads are nice .. Too many hills and small towns .. Unless you want to go Great Ocean Rd Vic then North ? Not shorter though.. I go from Sydney to Adelaide / Mt Gambier two three times a year..

Newell high way is another ..

-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Wednesday 11th of November 2015 05:06:44 PM

Spydermann · Senior Member

www.whereis.com/directions and set Adelaide / Gold Coast.

However, I know a few who go via Mildura, Hay, Goolgowi, West Wyalong then up the Newell as per going via Broken Hill (above)

-- Edited by Spydermann on Wednesday 11th of November 2015 05:01:23 PM

Yuglamron · Guru

Personally I would use the Newell Highway. The route through the New England Highway is a great drive but a bit hilly if you want to get to the Gold Coast quickly.

blaze · Guru

don't know about quickest but the best would have to be perth,darwin and across to cairns and down to the goldie
cheers
blaze

wendyv · Guru

I suggest - Mildura, Hay, West Wyalong, Moree, Warwick, Gold Coast.
There are plenty of caravan parks along that route, if you wish to overnight in same.
There are also a good number of rest areas on these main highways, with signs at regular intervals in NSW telling you distances to the next few rest areas.

Treecrest14 · Senior Member

Never done it from Adelaide, but from Perth to East states, we always go thru Broken Hill /Willcania - nice and flat.
Glen

El Gringo · Senior Member

wendyv wrote:
I suggest - Mildura, Hay, West Wyalong, Moree, Warwick, Gold Coast.
There are plenty of caravan parks along that route, if you wish to overnight in same.
There are also a good number of rest areas on these main highways, with signs at regular intervals in NSW telling you distances to the next few rest areas.

That's the way we came down to Adelaide from the Gold Coast earlier in the year.

Would so the same again no probs.

Cheers,

Mobi Condo · Guru

Treecrest14 wrote:
Never done it from Adelaide, but from Perth to East states, we always go thru Broken Hill /Willcania - nice and flat.
Glen

Agree here as Adelaide-ites with family in the Nerang / Gold Coast region.

Barrier Highway is slightly longer by a few Km - but is far easier traffic wise and hill wise and we believe therefore is shorter in time.

Cheers