Queensland, being the second largest (by area) state in Australia, is also the most decentralised. Hence the highways and roads cover most parts of the state unlike the sparsely populated Western Australia. Even Queensland's outback is well served as it is relatively populated.

Road quality varies from 8-laned Pacific Motorway linking Brisbane–Gold Coast to earth-packed outback tracks, reflecting the great diversity of its terrain and climatic conditions. The route markings are also unique in the sense that Queensland uses all available schemes, from old-style National Routes and Highways scheme and the blue-shielded State Routes scheme to the latest alphanumeric numbering scheme and the Metroads metropolitan route numbering scheme.

National Land Transport Network

Bruce Highway Gateway Motorway Pacific Motorway Bruce Highway

Gateway Motorway Ipswich Motorway Logan Motorway Warrego Highway

Barkly Highway Landsborough Highway Warrego Highway Flinders Highway Ipswich Motorway

Cunningham Highway New England Highway Gore Highway

State highways

Captain Cook Highway Gulf Developmental Road Kennedy Highway Savannah Way Gold Coast Highway

Gympie Arterial Road Pacific Motorway Riverside Expressway

Burnett Highway D'Aguilar Highway New England Highway Isis Highway Scenic Highway (Queensland) Port of Brisbane Motorway Capricorn Highway

Centenary Motorway Legacy Way Western Freeway, Brisbane Leichhardt Highway David Low Way

Carnarvon Highway Dawson Highway Gregory Highway Ipswich Road Fitzroy Developmental Road Maroochydore Road Suttor Developmental Road Mount Lindesay Highway

Brisbane Valley Highway D'Aguilar Highway Palmerston Highway Burke Developmental Road Mulligan Highway Cunningham Highway Captain Cook Highway Carnarvon Highway

Balonne Highway Bunya Highway Moonie Highway Wide Bay Highway

Gillies Highway Isis Highway

Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway Dawson Highway Kennedy Developmental Road Gregory Developmental Road Fitzroy Developmental Road

Peak Downs Highway Sunshine Motorway Mitchell Highway Bowen Developmental Road

Mulligan Highway Peninsula Developmental Road

Boulia Mount Isa Highway Burke Developmental Road Diamantina Developmental Road Eyre Developmental Road Wills Developmental Road

Barwon Highway Brisbane Valley Highway D'Aguilar Highway Esk–Hampton Road Gore Highway Leichhardt Highway New England Highway D'Aguilar Highway – Toowoomba–Athol Road No shield Donohue Highway

Outback track

Bamaga Road (Telegraph Road) Birdsville Track

See also

Highways in Australia for highways in other states and territories List of highways in Australia for roads named as highways, and roads that function as highways but are not necessarily classified as highways List of road routes in Queensland

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