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Goldfields Highway

Western Australia
Goldfields Highway; Western Australia
General information
Type	Highway
Length	797 km (495 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 132; Alternate National Route 94 (Kalgoorlie to Coolgardie-Esperance Highway)
Major junctions
Northwest end	Great Northern Highway (National Highway 95), Meekatharra
	Great Eastern Highway (Alternate National Route 94)
Southeast end	Coolgardie-Esperance Highway (National Highway 95), Widgiemooltha
Location(s)
Major settlements	Wiluna, Leonora, Menzies, Kalgoorlie, Kambalda
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Western Australia; ; ;

Goldfields Highway is a generally northwest–southeast highway in central Western Australia which links the Great Northern Highway at Meekatharra with Coolgardie-Esperance Highway south of Kalgoorlie.^[1] The highway is approximately 797 kilometres (495 mi) in length, and is designated as Alternate National Route 94 from Kalgoorlie to Coolgardie–Esperance Highway. The full highway has also been assigned State Route 132 since a review of state routes was conducted in 2024.^[2]

A large 180-kilometre (110 mi) section of the highway, from Meekatharra to Wiluna, is not a sealed road as of 2016^[update]. A project to upgrade Goldfields Highway by sealing this portion, over a three-year period, was scheduled to start in the 2017/18 financial year with $60 million of funding through Royalties for Regions.^[3]^[4] As of 2020, a small 5-kilometre-long (3 mi) section is being sealed.^[5]

References

^ Goldfields-Esperance Region (PDF) (Map). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
^ "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN STATE ROUTES 2024" (PDF). Main Roads WA. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
^ Main Roads Western Australia (26 August 2016). "Goldfields Highway Upgrade – Goldfields Highway (Wiluna to Meekatharra Sealing)". Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
^ Redman, Terry; Nalder, Dean (15 August 2016). "Wiluna to Meekatharra highway upgrade" (Media Statements). Government of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
^ Stevens, Rhiannon; Moussalli, Isabel (20 July 2020). "Roadworkers sealing Western Australia's last dirt highway unite remote outback community". ABC News. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.