How to get from Cairns to Gold Coast by car, truck, bike, walk

Distance between Cairns and Gold Coast is 1460 kilometers (905 miles).
Driving distance from Cairns to Gold Coast is 1787 kilometers (1108 miles)

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4 Ways from Cairns (Australia/Queensland) to Gold Coast (Australia/Queensland)

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Route instructions

1. Continue 78 m
2. Turn left onto Sheridan Street 570 m
3. Continue onto Sheridan Street 1.16 km
4. Turn left onto Draper Street 365 m
5. Turn right onto Comport Street 3.46 km
6. Keep left onto Bruce Highway Onramp 1.23 km
7. Continue onto Bruce Highway, A1 78.33 km
8. Continue onto Palmerston Drive, A1 2.97 km
9. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto River Avenue, A1 1.09 km
10. Turn right onto Bruce Highway, A1 68.51 km
11. Continue onto Bruce Highway, A1 22.88 km
12. Turn slight left onto Victoria Street, A1 2.43 km
13. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Victoria Street, A1 145.44 km
14. Keep right onto The Ring Road, A1 105.23 km
15. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bruce Highway, A1 499 m
16. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bruce Highway, A1 135 m
17. At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Queen Street / Bruce Highway, A1 263 m
18. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Queen Street / Bruce Highway, A1 237 m
19. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Queen Street / Bruce Highway, A1 594 m
20. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bruce Highway, A1 324 m
21. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bruce Highway, A1 2.05 km
22. Continue onto Bruce Highway, A1 289.88 km
23. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Mackay Ring Road 8.88 km
24. At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Mackay Ring Road 2.55 km
25. At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Bruce Highway, A1 16.90 km
26. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Bruce Highway, A1 299.16 km
27. Keep left onto Yaamba Road (Bruce Highway), A1 7.79 km
28. Continue onto Musgrave Street 4.05 km
29. Turn left onto George Street (Bruce Highway), A1, ACW 781 m
30. Continue onto Gladstone Road (Bruce Highway), A1, ACW 3.04 km
31. Keep left onto Bruce Highway, A1, ACW 165.49 km
32. Keep left 25.28 km
33. Turn right onto Tableland Road 26.98 km
34. Turn left onto Lowmead Road 47.40 km
35. Turn right onto Quinns Road 1.19 km
36. Turn sharp right onto Bucca Road 11.44 km
37. Turn left onto Birthamba Road 11.34 km
38. Turn right onto Gin Gin Road, 3 16 m
39. Turn left onto Hill End Road 3.35 km
40. Turn left onto Cedars Road 5.82 km
41. Turn sharp right onto Childers Road, 3 15.56 km
42. Turn left onto Logging Creek Road 2.74 km
43. Turn right onto Farnsfield Road 3.84 km
44. Turn left onto Knockroe Road 303 m
45. Turn right onto North Isis Road 3.45 km
46. Turn left onto Stockyard Road 3.23 km
47. Turn right onto Goodwood Road 3.42 km
48. Keep left onto Lucketts Road 1.46 km
49. Turn left onto Bruce Highway, A1 285.63 km
50. Keep left onto Gateway Motorway, M1 37.81 km
51. Keep left onto M1 49.75 km
52. Keep left onto Smith Street Motorway Onramp, 10 785 m
53. Keep right onto Smith Street Motorway, 10 2.63 km
54. Keep left onto Olsen Avenue Offramp 300 m
55. Keep right onto Olsen Avenue Offramp 171 m
56. Turn right onto Olsen Avenue, 4 2.69 km
57. At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Cotlew Street 1.02 km
58. Continue onto Cotlew Street 36 m
59. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Cotlew Street 761 m
60. At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Cotlew Street East 1.33 km
61. Turn right onto Ferry Road, 3 1.17 km
62. Turn left 133 m
63. Keep right 101 m
64. Keep right 128 m
65. Arrive at destination 0 m
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