Scarborough Beach Road, Perth

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Scarborough Beach Road

Length	11 km
General direction	Northwest-Southeast
From	West Coast Highway, Scarborough
via	Doubleview, Innaloo, Woodlands, Osborne Park, Mount Hawthorn
To	Charles Street, North Perth
Established	1910s
Allocation	State Route 75
Major Junctions	Huntriss Road, Odin Road, Main Street, Green Street, Oxford Street, Loftus Street

Scarborough Beach Road is an arterial northwest-southeast road located in the inner northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It is mostly a single carriageway road, with two or three lanes in each direction.

It was built to offer access to the Osborne Park agricultural and market gardening area and Scarborough Beach in the early 20th century. It was originally a plank road. In the 1950s, prior to the development of shopping centres at Karrinyup and Innaloo, the Mount Hawthorn section of the road was a popular shopping area.

Since the development of the Osborne Park industrial area and the Innaloo commercial area in the 1960s, Scarborough Beach Road has become one of the major arterial roads in the northern suburbs. The Westfield Innaloo shopping centre, a large cinema and a tavern are located around the Odin Street/Liege Street/Ellen Stirling Boulevard triple-intersection, which also carries State Route 64 traffic between the Mitchell Freeway and the western suburbs.

The Stirling railway station is a short distance away while the Glendalough railway station, built in 1992, picks up passengers on the road underneath the Mitchell Freeway bridge. It is one of only two arterial roads between Perth and Joondalup (along with Beach Road) not to provide ramp access to the Mitchell Freeway to general traffic.