Burns Beach Road, Perth

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Burns Beach Road
Length	5 km
General direction	East-West
From	Joondalup Drive, Joondalup
via	Neerabup, Kinross, Currambine & Iluka
To	Ocean Parade, Burns Beach
Major Junctions	Joondalup Drive, Marmion Avenue

Burns Beach Road is a major road in Perth, Australia. The road provides the only road route to the small coastal village in Burns Beach.

The road begins at a large roundabout joining with Joondalup Drive, and ends just outside of the coastal village at Burns Beach, where the road continues into the village as Ocean Parade. The road passes by the northern residential areas of Joondalup and cuts through the boundary between Currambine and Kinross. Burns Beach Road is a two-way road for its entire length and has no State Route number. Its speed limit is 80 km/h for most of its length, decreasing to 70 km/h when approaching Marmion Avenue from the east, decreasing further to 60 km/h when approaching Ocean Parade. Burns Beach Road provides direct access to Currambine railway station, located east of Connolly Drive. In addition to the main road, a short road extending from Silver Sands Drive to Shenton Avenue in Iluka is also called Burns Beach Road, and it is proposed that this portion will be joined with the main road to the north.

Before 1996, Burns Beach Road was longer than it is now, as its eastern end extended as far as Wanneroo Road. However, Joondalup Drive underwent major construction during that year, linking Joondalup to Wanneroo Road with safer roads. Therefore, Burns Beach Road was cut shorter, joining with Joondalup Drive at a large roundabout a few hundred metres west of Wanneroo Road. In the late 1990s, a large roundabout was also constructed to replace a stop-controlled intersection at Connolly Drive, in response to the growing community in Kinross and Currambine, and the heavier traffic. In the early 2000s, major work was done to improve the quality of the road west of Marmion Avenue, due to the growing residential area in Iluka.

It is confirmed that Mitchell Freeway will connect with Burns Beach Road by 2008, which will include an interchange between both roads.

The road was known as Road No. 3883 on plans and maps.