Waterfall Way Corridor Strategy

The Waterfall Way provides a key east west connection between two of the major highways in northern NSW, the Pacific Highway and the New England Highway. It connects the rural communities of Bellingen, Dorrigo and Ebor with the urban centres of Coffs Harbour and Armidale. It is also a tourist route passing the waterfalls on the Dorrigo Mountain and it provides a transport route for the timber and agricultural industries.

The NSW Government funded vital road and safety improvements along the Waterfall Way to the amount of $50 million.

Over the past four years, this funding has been used to improve safety, reliability and travel times, and addressing safety for pedestrians and traffic in the Dorrigo town centre.

This funding has been delivering projects that was previously identified in the Waterfall Way Corridor Strategy. These projects provide formal overtaking opportunities between the Pacific Highway and Bellingen as well as passing opportunities on the Dorrigo Mountain.

Some projects already delivered include:

Dorrigo roundabout
rehabilitation and widening of 1.2km at Little North Arm Road
widening and rehabilitation of 4km west of Bellingen
rehabilitation and widening of 5km east of Ebor
construction of four slow vehicle turn out lanes on Dorrigo Mountain
slope upgrade and curve improvement on Dorrigo Mountain
installation of 6 permanent VMS
Waterfall Way-Armidale Rd Intersection upgrade.

As a part of this $50 million program of work, there will be a monitoring/VMS notification system installed at Sherrard Falls and flood resilience projects are proposed to improve connectivity between Bellingen and the Pacific Highway.

This flood resilience work will be spread over three locations on Waterfall Way: