North Beach Road, Perth

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North Beach Road

Length	6 km
General direction	Northwest-Southeast
From	West Coast Drive, North Beach
via	Carine, Karrinyup, Gwelup
To	Karrinyup Road, Gwelup
Established	1920s
Allocation	State Route 77
Major Junctions	Marmion Avenue, Duffy Road, Balcatta Road, Erindale Road

North Beach Road is a suburban distributor road in the inner northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It is a single carriageway, with one lane in each direction for its entire length.

While the road today is minor and, at its coastal end, choked by roundabouts and other traffic-calming devices, it was one of the first roads in the area, originally built as a plank road serving tourists and holidaymakers staying in North Beach over the summer. It extended to Wanneroo Road along what is now Karrinyup Road and North Beach Drive. The construction in 2000 of Reid Highway (Mitchell Freeway to Marmion Avenue) just 300 metres north of North Beach Road effectively bypassed the road.

Until the 1960s, it was known as Balcatta Beach Road, even though the suburb was always known as North Beach.