# Glenelg Highway

Glenelg Highway is a rural highway in south-eastern Australia, linking the major regional centres of Mount Gambier in south-eastern South Australia with Ballarat in western Victoria.

## Route

Glenelg Highway commences at the intersection with Princes Highway in Glenburnie, South Australia and heads on a north-easterly direction as a two-lane, single carriageway rural highway, crossing the interstate border into Victoria 15km later (some maps identify the South Australian section as Casterton Road), continuing northeast to Casterton, then heading in an easterly direction through the towns of Hamilton, Dunkeld and Skipton, before eventually terminating at the intersection with Midland Highway in the south-eastern suburb of Sebastopol in Ballarat.

## History

The passing of the Country Roads Act of 1912 through the Parliament of Victoria provided for the establishment of the Country Roads Board (later VicRoads) and their ability to declare Main Roads, taking responsibility for the management, construction and care of the state's major roads from local municipalities. Hamilton- (Coleraine-) (Casterton-) Mount Gambier Road was declared a Main Road, from Hamilton to Coleraine on 16 November 1914, and Coleraine through Casterton to the border with South Australia on 30 November 1914; Hamilton-Dunkeld Road from Hamilton to Dunkeld was declared a Main Road on 16 November 1914; and Ballarat-Hamilton Road from south-western Ballarat through Scarsdale, Skipton to Lake Bolac was declared a Main Road on 31 May 1915.
The passing of the Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by the State government through the Country Roads Board. Glenelg Highway was declared a State Highway in the 1947/48 financial year, from Ballarat via Skipton and Hamilton to Casterton (for a total of 149 miles), subsuming the original declarations of Hamilton-Coleraine-Casterton-Mount Gambier Road, Hamilton-Dunkeld Road and Ballarat-Hamilton Road as Main Roads.
The alignment of the highway through Ballarat was changed in June 1983: previously terminating at the intersection of Albert and Hertford Streets in Sebastopol, it was extended north 3 km along Albert Street, Skipton Street, and Doveton Street South to terminate at Sturt Street (Western Highway) in central Ballarat, only to be truncated back to its original terminus in Sebastopol in May 1990; the former alignment was subsumed into the Midland Highway, re-aligned to this route at the same time. A new bridge over Hopkins River in Wickcliffe was opened in 1996, replacing an older, flood-prone structure and the last on the highway with a timber deck, at a cost of $145,000, with bridge approaches costing $700,000.
Glenelg Highway was signed as State Route 112 between Glenburnie and Ballarat in 1986; with Victoria's conversion to the newer alphanumeric system in the late 1990s, this was replaced by route B160.
The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads: in 2004, VicRoads re-declared the road as Glenelg Highway (Arterial #6670), beginning at the South Australian border and ending at Midland Highway in Sebastopol, Ballarat.

## Major Intersections and Towns

| State | LGA | Location | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
| South Australia | Grant | Glenburnie | 0.0 | 0.0 | Princes Highway (A1 west, east) – Portland, Mount Gambier Attiwill Road (south) – Murrawa | Western terminus of highway and route B160 |
| State border | State border | State border | 15.3 | 9.5 | South Australia – Victoria state border | South Australia – Victoria state border |
| Victoria | Glenelg | Casterton | 58.4 | 36.3 | Casterton–Penola Road (C198) – Penola, Robe | |
| Victoria | Glenelg | Casterton | 61.6 | 38.3 | Casterton–Naracoorte Road (C211) – Naracoorte | |
| Victoria | Glenelg River | Glenelg River | 62.1 | 38.6 | Bridge name unknown | Bridge name unknown |
| Victoria | Glenelg | Casterton | 63.4 | 39.4 | Portland–Casterton Road (C195) – Portland | |
| Victoria | Glenelg | Casterton | 67.7 | 42.1 | Casterton–Edenhope Road (C207 north) – Edenhope Lodge Road (south) – Sandford | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Coleraine | 89.2 | 55.4 | Coleraine–Balmoral Road (C203/C206) – Balmoral, Harrow, Nhill | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Coleraine | 90.7 | 56.4 | Coleraine–Merino Road (C196) – Merino | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 121.5 | 75.5 | Henty Highway (A200 north) – Horsham, Warracknabeal, Mildura | Concurrency with route A200 |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 123.8 | 76.9 | Henty Highway (A200 south) – Heywood, Portland | Concurrency with route A200 |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 124.9 | 77.6 | Lonsdale Street (west) – Hamilton Thompson Street (south) – Hamilton | Roundabout |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 126.3 | 78.5 | Portland railway line | Portland railway line |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Hamilton | 127.7 | 79.3 | Hamilton Highway (B140) – Mortlake, Warrnambool, Geelong | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Moutajup | 148.3 | 92.1 | Portland railway line | Portland railway line |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Dunkeld | 152.9 | 95.0 | Penshurst–Dunkeld Road (C178 north) – Penshurst, Warrnambool Dunkeld–Cavendish Road (C188 south) – Cavendish, Balmoral | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Dunkeld | 156.1 | 97.0 | Grampians Road (C216) – Halls Gap, Stawell | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Glenthompson | 174.6 | 108.5 | Pyrenees Highway (B180) – Ararat, Avoca, Castlemaine | |
| Victoria | Southern Grampians | Glenthompson | 175.7 | 109.2 | Portland railway line | Portland railway line |
| Victoria | Hopkins River | Hopkins River | 192.2 | 119.4 | Bridge name unknown | Bridge name unknown |
| Victoria | Ararat | Lake Bolac | 203.0 | 126.1 | Mortlake–Ararat Road (C148) – Mortlake, Ararat | |
| Victoria | Ararat | Westmere | 215.1 | 133.7 | Western SG railway line | Western SG railway line |
| Victoria | Ararat | Streatham | 223.5 | 138.9 | Rossbridge–Streatham Road (C182) – Ararat | |
| Victoria | Fiery Creek | Fiery Creek | 224.2 | 139.3 | Bridge name unknown | Bridge name unknown |
| Victoria | Corangamite | Skipton | 250.8 | 155.8 | Skipton Road (C172) – Beaufort | Western terminus of concurrency with route C172 |
| Victoria | Mount Emu Creek | Mount Emu Creek | 251.2 | 156.1 | Bridge name unknown | Bridge name unknown |
| Victoria | Corangamite | Skipton | 251.3 | 156.2 | Lismore–Skipton Road (C172) – Lismore | Eastern terminus of concurrency with route C172 |
| Victoria | Corangamite | Skipton | 251.8 | 156.5 | Rokewood–Skipton Road (C143) – Rokewood, Geelong | |
| Victoria | Woady Yaloak River | Woady Yaloak River | 278.4 | 173.0 | Bridge name unknown | Bridge name unknown |
| Victoria | Golden Plains | Scarsdale | 279.5 | 173.7 | Lismore–Scarsdale Road (C171) – Lismore | |
| Victoria | Ballarat | Delacombe | 297.1 | 184.6 | Delacombe–Wendouree Road (C307 north) – Alfredton, Wendouree Cherry Flat Road (south) – Bonshaw | |
| Victoria | Ballarat | Sebastopol | 299.8 | 186.3 | Midland Highway (A300 north, south) – Ballarat City Centre, Bendigo, Geelong Sayle Street (east) – Sebastopol | Eastern terminus of highway and route B160 |
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