Highlands Highway

Highlands Highway
Highlands Highway
Route information
Length	700 km (430 mi)
Existed	1950s–present
Major junctions
East end	Lae
West end	Tari, Porgera
Location
Country	Papua New Guinea
Major cities	Kainantu, Goroka, Mount Hagen, Mendi, Wabag
Highway system
	Transport in Papua New Guinea;

Eastern Highlands Province

The Highlands Highway, sometimes known as the Okuk Highway,^[1] is the main land highway in Papua New Guinea. It connects several major cities and is vital for the movement of people and goods between the populous Highlands region and the coast.

For most of its length the Highlands Highway is no more than a single carriageway two-lane road which is often hindered by potholes and land slips. It is also notorious, particularly in the Highlands region, for being the place of numerous armed hold-ups and robberies committed by local bandits called raskols.

Description

The highway begins in

Simbu Province, hence, so many gazetted roads within Chuave District link the main Okuk High Way. Teine Agiyonga Memorial Roads like; Warabago-Wiridani Road, Giriyu-Kanma Road and Giriyu-Korima Road is few amongst many and through to its capital of Kundiawa. At the Markham Valley turn-off the road continues as the Ramu Highway through the Ramu Valley into Madang Province and ends at the coast at the provincial capital of Madang

.

After Kundiawa the highway reaches the

Southern Highlands province and its capital of Mendi before going on to Tari. The other branch goes to Enga province and its capital of Wabag before ending at the mining town of Porgera

.