Port Wakefield Road

Port Wakefield Road South Australia
General information
Type	Highway
Length	92 km (57 mi)
Route number(s)	National Highway A1 (Port Wakefield - Dry Creek) A1 (Dry Creek - Gepps Cross)
Former route number	National Highway 1
Major junctions
North end	Augusta Highway (Snowtown Road), Port Wakefield, South Australia
	Northern Expressway Salisbury Highway Grand Junction Road
South end	Main North Road, Gepps Cross, Adelaide
Location(s)
Major settlements	Two Wells, Virginia, Cavan, Gepps Cross
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in South Australia

Port Wakefield Road is an important Australian highway. It connects Adelaide, the South Australian capital, to the Yorke Peninsula, Port Augusta, northern and western South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is designated National Highway A1 and a part of the National Highway. It is named after Port Wakefield, the first government town north of Adelaide.

Port Wakefield Road branches off of Main North Road at Gepps Cross in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. The highway is dual-carriageway until Port Wakefield and bypasses all of the small towns along its former route. The original bypass of Port Wakefield is now built up with roadhouses and other businesses, leading to calls to build a new bypass further east.

In 2011 an upgrade including road widening of nine kilometres of Port Wakefield Road between Salisbury Highway and Waterloo Corner Road was completed as part of the Northern Expressway project.

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Port Adelaide Enfield	Blair Athol–Enfield–Gepps Cross tripoint	0	0	Grand Junction Road (National Highway A16) / Main North Road (A1 south / A20 north-east) – Port Adelaide, Adelaide, Elizabeth, Gawler	Southern terminus; five-way traffic light intersection
	Gepps Cross–Dry Creek boundary	1.2	0.7	Cavan Road (A22) – Port Adelaide
Salisbury	Cavan	2.3	1.4	Montague Road east / Churchill Road North westbound – Elizabeth
	Dry Creek–Mawson Lakes boundary	4.0	2.5	Salisbury Highway (National Highway A13 south-west / A13 north-east) – Port Adelaide, Salisbury	Diamond interchange; route transition: A1 northern terminus, National Highway A1 southern terminus
	Bolivar–Paralowie	9.4	5.8	Bolivar Road to Kings Road (A18) – Modbury
	Waterloo Corner	13.0	8.1	Waterloo Corner Road – Angle Vale
Playford		15.7– 17.0	9.8– 10.6	Northern Expressway (National Highway M20) north-east – Gawler, Renmark	Partial T interchange: no access south-westbound to northbound
Wakefield	Port Wakefield	87.3	54.2	Augusta Highway (National Highway A1) north / Port Wakefield–Auburn Road (B84) north-east / North Street west – Port Augusta, Balaklava	Northern highway terminus; continues as Augusta Highway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Route transition

Towns

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Approximate road distances (in kilometres) of towns along the Port Wakefield Road from Main North Road, Adelaide

Port Wakefield Road passes through the northern Adelaide Plains. To the west of the road is the coastal fringe of upper Gulf St Vincent, including a number of fishing and holiday villages. To the east is rich cropping and farming land.

The list of towns on or near the road include:

• Virginia
• Two Wells
• Lower Light
• Dublin
• Windsor
• Wild Horse Plains
• Port Wakefield

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in South Australia
• Highway 1 (Australia)
• Highway 1 (South Australia)
• Lower Light protest statues