Burwood Highway

Burwood Highway

Victoria
Burwood Highway; Victoria
	Burwood Highway, Burwood East
	West end East end
Coordinates	37.844730°S 145.039623°E (West end); 37.908355°S 145.355083°E (East end);
General information
Type	Highway
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Route number(s)	Metro Route 26 (1965–present); (Hawthorn–Upper Ferntree Gully); C412 (1998–present); (Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave); Concurrencies:; Metro Route 22 (1965–present); (Ferntree Gully–Upper Ferntree Gully); Metro Route 5 (1989–present); (through Ferntree Gully);
Former; route number	Metro Route 26 (1965–1998); (Upper Ferntree Gully–Belgrave)
Major junctions
West end	Toorak Road; Hawthorn, Melbourne
	CityLink; Monash Freeway; Warrigal Road; Middleborough Road; Springvale Road; Mountain Highway; EastLink; Ferntree Gully Road; Mount Dandenong Tourist Road;
East end	Monbulk Road; Belgrave–Gembrook Road; Belgrave, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major settlements	Burwood, Burwood East, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Belgrave
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Victoria;

Burwood Highway is a major transportation link with Melbourne's eastern suburbs. It begins in the suburb of Kooyong, Melbourne at the junction of the Monash Freeway as Toorak Road between Monash Freeway and Warrigal Road, and finishes in Belgrave, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges. The highway is considered a major link for people who live in the Dandenong Ranges and acts as one of the major feeder roadway in the area along with Canterbury Road, Ferntree Gully Road, EastLink and Wellington Road.

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