Lake Highway

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Lake Highway

Formerly ^[1]
Length	148 km
General direction	North-South
From	Bass Highway, Deloraine, Tasmania
via	Brandum, Liawenee, Wihareja, Steppes, Bothwell, Apsley
To	Midland Highway, Melton Mowbray, Tasmania
Allocation	A5
Major Junctions	Meander Valley Highway East Barrack Street Long Ridge Road Meander Road Marlborough Highway Waddamana Road Poatina Road Interlaken Road Waddamana Road Meadsfield Road Dennistoun Road Hollow Tree Road Lower Marshes Road

The Lake Highway, or A5, is a main highway and A-road in Tasmania. Although still known as the Lake Highway the official title of the road was changed in 2001 to Highland Lakes Road.

The Lake Highway branches off the Midland Highway at Melton Mowbray in southern Tasmania and continues for 146 kilometres, with Bothwell being the main town of any size on route, it terminates in Deloraine. It is the only major A-road in Australia that is partially unsealed. The highway is one of the least used in Tasmania, except during the summer months when the road is used by Great Lake commuters. The portion of the highway on and near the Great Lake in Tasmania's Central plateau, averages a height of about 1000 metres. During the winter months it is sometimes snowed under.

Two major roads that branch from the Lake Highway are the Marlborough Highway (which connects to the A10 Lyell Highway), and the B51 (which leads to the power station village of Poatina).