Sydney to Tamworth - fastest route?

I reckon Peats ridge Road exit is a less stressful drive :)


Cheers Kev

I would assume straitght down the Newcastle/Sydney expressway and turn left at the New England

Honky

6 of one half dozen of another really

No matter which exit you take you will still have to deal with going via Cessnock, then the crawl through Branxton and Singleton, then again to Musswellbrook.

Once you leave the F3 I would not expect to get there in record time no matter which way you go.

The New England HWY is painful. Just wish the roads further north from the coast inland were better.

Straight up the F3...take the Cessnock/vineyard off ramp after Morriset, then across to Branxton, onto the New England H'way and onto Tamworth.

If your in the western Suburbs you could go up the Putty Road from Windsor to Singleton, then onto the New England Highway.

Either way you'll get a fair bit of traffic till about Muswellbrook.

If you want to go from Peats Ridge to Singleton, you'll be going via Kulnura, Laguna, Wollombi, Broke, Mt.Thorley, and a lot of that is gravel and hilly and winding, but a very pretty drive.

Hope this helps.

Fred.

After probably 100 return Sydney trips over 25+ years, assuming you are leaving from east of say Blacktown, .........
Shortest and quickest is off F3 to Peats Ridge exit then Broke Rd, turn left just north of Broke after bridge for 15km, right at end onto Putty Rd for 100ml then turn left onto Wallby Scrub Rd to Warworth then left onto Golden Highway ca 40km, turn off onto Edgerton rd at top of Arrowfield winery hill, then right 20km later to Muswellbrook.
Hasn't been any dirt on it for 10 years, all sealed.
Saves 15km and 15 minutes over going through Cessnock which saves 15km and 15 minutes going to end of F3.

Local semis go through Cessnock, is also much simpler than Broke Rd, which I wouldn't recommend for a first timer at night.

Not much in it.
Via Cessnock 4hours 30 minutes travelling at speed limit. not stopping and no Sydney traffic jams on exit.

By plane....lol