Copper Coast Highway

Copper Coast Highway South Australia
General information
Type	Highway
Length	58 km (36 mi)[1]
Route number(s)
Major junctions
southeast end	Augusta Highway (Port Wakefield)
	Yorke Highway Port Broughton Road / Mines Road
northwest end	Spencer Highway (Wallaroo)
Location(s)
Major settlements	Kulpara Paskeville Kadina
Highway system
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The Copper Coast Highway (route ) is a highway in South Australia which branches off from the Augusta Highway 2 km north of Port Wakefield and heads northwest across the top of Yorke Peninsula to Kadina and ends at the Spencer Gulf town of Wallaroo.

The state government proposes to restructure the intersection on the Copper Coast Highway at the north end of the Yorke Highway to provide a large roundabout instead of Yorke Highway terminating at a tee-junction.^[2] The roundabout is intended to reduce delays at the end of holiday periods when lots of people try to drive back towards Adelaide at the same time, and will permit road trains to operate between Port Wakefield and Ardrossan which had previously not been permitted due to limitations of that intersection. Subsidiary works will improve the Yorke Highway north of Ardrossan with a widened bridge, sealed shoulders and overtaking lanes.^[3] Road trains up to 36.5 metres (120 ft) were previously permitted to operate on the Augusta Highway through Port Wakefield north towards Port Pirie and beyond, and from Ardrossan south to Port Giles, but were not permitted to operate north of Ardrossan to the Augusta Highway,^[4] limiting the capacity to transport grain or minerals.

Major intersections and towns

LGA	Location[5]	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Wakefield	2km north of Port Wakefield	0	0.0	Augusta Highway
		6	3.7	Yorke Highway – Ardrossan	Proposed road-train capable roundabout
Barunga West	Kulpara	17	11	Upper Yorke Road – southwest to Maitland, north to Bute
Copper Coast	Paskeville	30	19
		34	21	northeast to Lochiel
		35	22	west to Moonta
	Kadina	49	30	Port Broughton Road – north to Port Broughton Mines Road – southwest to Moonta
	Wallaroo	58	36	Spencer Highway – northeast to Port Broughton, south to Moonta

References

1. Google (15 September 2014). "Copper Coast highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
2. Copper Coast Highway Intersection with Yorke Highway - for illustrative purposes only (PDF) (Map). Government of South Australia. August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
3. Peter Malinauskas (10 August 2016). "New roundabout to help ease holiday traffic on Yorke Peninsula". News release - Peter Malinauskas (Press release). Government of South Australia.
4. RAVNet (Map). Government of South Australia. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
5. "Naming of State Rural Roads - Mid North" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 16 December 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014.