Calder Highway

Calder Highway Calder Freeway Victoria –New South Wales
Calder Freeway facing Mount Macedon
Coordinates	34°06′41″S 141°59′13″E / 34.111291°S 141.986859°E / -34.111291; 141.986859 (North end) 37°44′02″S 144°53′34″E / 37.733940°S 144.892831°E / -37.733940; 144.892831 (South end)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	560.9 km (349 mi)[3]
Gazetted	December 1913 (as Main Road)[1] July 1925 (as State Highway)[2]
Route number(s)	A79 (1997–present) (VIC/NSW border–Ravenswood) M79 (1997–present) (Ravenswood–Niddrie) A790 (1997–present) (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood) Concurrencies: A300 (1997–present) (Bendigo–Harcourt)
Former route number	Metro Route 40 (1989–2020) (Keilor–Niddrie) National Route 79 (1955–1997/2013) (VIC/NSW) Entire route Freeway Route 90 (1972–1987) (Keilor–Niddrie) Alternative National Route 79 (1986–1997) (Calder Alternative Highway: Marong–Ravenswood) Concurrencies: State Route 149 (1986–1997) (Bendigo–Harcourt)
Major junctions
North end	Silver City Highway Curlwaa, New South Wales
	Sturt Highway Mallee Highway Sunraysia Highway Borung Highway Calder Alternative Highway Loddon Valley Highway Midland Highway Pyrenees Highway Melton Highway Western Ring Road
South end	Tullamarine Freeway Airport West, Melbourne
Location(s)
Region	Loddon Mallee, Grampians, Greater Melbourne[4]
Major settlements	Mildura, Ouyen, Charlton, Bendigo, Harcourt, Malmsbury, Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon, Gisborne, Diggers Rest, Sunbury
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Victoria Highways in New South Wales
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Calder Highway is a rural highway in Australia, linking Mildura and the Victoria/New South Wales border to Bendigo, in North Central Victoria. South of Bendigo, where the former highway has been upgraded to freeway-standard, Calder Freeway links to Melbourne, subsuming former alignments of Calder Highway; the Victorian Government completed the conversion to freeway standard from Melbourne to Bendigo on 20 April 2009.

Calder Alternate Highway connects to Calder Highway at either end – just north of Ravenswood, and at Marong – and provides a bypass west of Bendigo.