90 Mile Straight Sign
Maker not named · Eyre Highway near Balladonia, Western Australia · western end of the 90 Mile Straight
Photo: Bahnfrend / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), as also published in Street Art Utopia.
A brown roadside sign marks the western end of the 90 Mile Straight on the Eyre Highway near Balladonia. It reads “90 Mile Straight · Australia’s longest straight road · 146.6 km.” Source Source Source Checked
Seen Nov 2023: a photograph taken on 7 November 2023, geotagged a few meters from the 2017 photo, shows a sign with the same wording at the same spot (the stickers seen in 2017 are no longer on it). Source Checked
💡 4 things to know
- The western endThe 2017 photo is described as the sign marking the western end of the 90 Mile Straight, and ExplorOz lists the sign with the note “Western end.” Source Source Checked
- 146.6 kilometersThe sign gives the straight as 146.6 km, the same figure Visit Dundas gives for the road between Caiguna and Balladonia. Source Source Checked
- Another sign at CaigunaVisit Dundas tells travelers to stop for a photo at the famous roadside sign before rolling into Caiguna, at the eastern end of the straight. Source Source Reported
- Covered in stickersBy April 2017 travelers had put a scatter of stickers on the sign’s face. Source Checked
📍 Where it is
Beside the Eyre Highway at the western end of the 90 Mile Straight, east of Balladonia, Western Australia (the 2017 photo is geotagged at −32.45464, 123.94436). Source Source Source Checked
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🗓️ Sightings
- 201715 Apr
Photographed · camera date
- 20237 Nov
Photographed with two cars · camera date
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark dated records and reports. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
“a 146.6-kilometre ribbon of bitumen running unbroken between Caiguna and Balladonia”
“Western end”
“146.6km of arrow-straight road”
✅ The facts
- Place
- Eyre Highway, western end of the 90 Mile Straight, near Balladonia, Western Australia Source Source Checked
- Maker
- Not named in the sources used Source Unconfirmed
- Status today
- Newest dated photo 7 November 2023 Source Unconfirmed
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- Wikimedia Commons: 90 Mile Straight sign, Balladonia, 2017 (Bahnfrend, 15 Apr 2017)
- Wikimedia Commons: 90 mile straight sign with two electric vehicles (Chuq, 7 Nov 2023)
- ExplorOz: 90 Mile Straight Sign, Eyre Hwy
- Visit Dundas: Places to visit on the Eyre Highway
- Top Wire Traveller: Caiguna to Norseman
- Hero photo: 90 Mile Straight sign, Balladonia, Bahnfrend / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Share image: the hero photo on a 16:9 canvas with blurred sides, made from the WAU media copy.
Last checked: 4 November 2026. How we verify art