{{Short description|Highway in Tasmania, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox Australian road | type = highway | road_name = Lake Highway | state = tas | route_image = | image = | caption = | length = 152 | direction_a = North | direction_b = South | end_a = {{AUshield|N|1}} [[Bass Highway (Tasmania)|Bass Highway]]<br /><small>[[Deloraine, Tasmania|Deloraine]], [[Tasmania]]</small> | end_b = {{AUshield|N|1}} [[Midland Highway (Tasmania)|Midland Highway]]<br /><small>[[Melton Mowbray, Tasmania|Melton Mowbray]], [[Tasmania]]</small> | est = | through = [[Brandum, Tasmania|Brandum]], [[Liawenee]], [[Wihareja, Tasmaina|Wihareja]], [[Steppes, Tasmania|Steppes]], [[Bothwell, Tasmania|Bothwell]], [[Apsley, Tasmania|Apsley]] | route = {{AUshield|TAS|A5}} A5 <br /><small>[[Deloraine, Tasmania|Deloraine]] — [[Melton Mowbray, Tasmania|Melton Mowbray]]</small> | former = {{AUshield|S|5}} State Route 5<ref>[http://www.ozroads.com.au/TAS/routenumbering/old/stateroutes.htm Former State Route Numbering System in Tasmania], ''Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website''. Retrieved 17 March 2008.{{Self-published source|date=December 2013}}</ref> | exits = {{plainlist| *{{AUshield|TAS|B54}} Meander Valley Road *{{AUshield|TAS|B11}} [[Marlborough Highway]] *{{AUshield|TAS|B51}} Poatina Road *{{AUshield|TAS|B110}} Hollow Tree 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 (Tasmania)|Midland Highway]] at [[Melton Mowbray, Tasmania|Melton Mowbray]] in southern Tasmania and continues for 152 kilometres, with [[Bothwell, Tasmania|Bothwell]] being the main town of any size en route, terminating in [[Deloraine, Tasmania|Deloraine]]. Until recently it was the only major A-road in [[Australia]] that was partially unsealed; works to seal the road were completed in April 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.transport.tas.gov.au/road/projects/highland_lakes_road-miena_to_liawenee|date=18 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510161456/https://www.transport.tas.gov.au/road/projects/highland_lakes_road-miena_to_liawenee|archive-date=10 May 2020|title= Highland Lakes Road|publisher=[[Department of State Growth|Department of State Growth (Tasmanian Government)]]}}</ref> The highway is one of the least used in [[Tasmania]], except during the summer months when the road is used by [[Great Lake (Tasmania)|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 Poatina Road (B51), which leaves the Lake Highway north of the Steppes and plunges steeply over the Great Western Tiers to the former hydro-electric construction village of Poatina.
==See also== {{stack|{{Portal|Australia|Australian Roads}}}} * [[Highways in Australia]] * [[List of highways in Tasmania]]
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[[Category:Highways in Tasmania]] [[Category:Central Highlands (Tasmania)]]