Getting to New South Wales: By road

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Travellers arriving overland will usually pass through the (near) border towns of Broken Hill from South Australia, Albury-Wodonga or Eden from Victoria and Tweed Heads from Queensland. New South Wales is linked by sealed highways to the three surrounding states. The main routes used by motorists into New South Wales are as follows:

• From Queensland:
  • via the Pacific Highway, entering at Tweed Heads/Coolangatta, at the south end of the Gold Coast
  • via the New England Highway, entering at Wallangarra/Jennings, approximately 250km south-west of Brisbane
• From South Australia:
  • via the Barrier Highway, entering at Cockburn, approximately 50km west of Broken Hill
• From Victoria:
  • via the Hume Highway, entering at Albury
  • via the Princes Highway, entering just south of the town of Eden.
  • via the Sturt Highway (often used by motorists coming directly from Adelaide), entering just north of Mildura.

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