Midland Highway

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For other highways named Midland Highway, see Midland Highway (Tasmania) and Midland Highway (Oregon).

Midland Highway
Geelong-Benalla:
Benalla-Barjarg:
Barjarg-Mansfield:
Length	466 kilometres
General direction:	Southwest-Northeast
From:	Geelong West, Geelong
To:	Mansfield, Victoria
Towns along road:	Ballarat, Daylesford, Castlemaine, Bendigo, Elmore, Shepparton, Benalla

Midland Highway (A300, B300, C518), not to be confused with Tasmania's Midlands Highway, links the Victorian towns of Geelong and Mansfield in south-eastern Australia. It winds through country Victoria in a large arc, travelling via the towns of Ballarat, Bendigo and Shepparton. The total length of the highway is 451km.

Route number: A300 (previously State Route 149) from Geelong to Benalla; B300 (previously State Route 153) from Benalla to Barjarg; C518 from Barjarg to Mansfield.

The Midland Link Highway (B300, previously State Route Alt-153) links Barjarg (on the Midland Highway) and Maindample (on the Maroondah Highway), bypassing Mansfield and reducing the journey from Benalla to Alexandra by 19km.

A further, fragmented section of the highway that ran between the Princes Highway east of Morwell in the Latrobe Valley and Port Welshpool, on the South Gippsland Highway, was stripped of highway status in the 1980s.

[edit] Major highway towns

• Geelong
• Ballarat
• Creswick
• Daylesford
• Castlemaine
• Harcourt
• Bendigo
• Elmore
• Stanhope
• Shepparton
• Benalla
• Mansfield