Illawarra Highway connects Wollongong to NSW Southern Highlands. It links Princes Highway and Hume Highway and signed as National Route 48.
It is named after the geographical area it crosses, the Illawarra region. Typical scenery is beautiful and it crosses the spectacular Macquarie Pass, with many hairpin bends and many steep gradients, unsuitable for big trucks and other articulated vehicles. Trucks are instead advised to use the Mount Keira Road (State Route 88), also known as Picton Road. The pass has one of the southernmost stands of Australia's sub tropical rainforest.
The main towns en route are Albion Park in the Shellharbour area and Robertson and Moss Vale on the Southern Highlands. Spectacular National Parks surrounds them. Both Robertson and Moss Vale are quaint country towns with 19th-century buildings still intact, While Albion Park is an inland town of Shellharbour
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