State Highway 28 (New Zealand)

State Highway 28 (SH 28) is a New Zealand state highway in the Waikato region. The highway was gazetted in 1997 as a faster route for traffic travelling between SH 1 and SH 29 towards the Port of Tauranga. Prior to the formation of SH 28 the quickest route, only if using state highways, was via Tīrau and SH 27. There are no towns on this route and due to the highway being mapped to existing rural roads there are several places were motorists need to give way to traffic from other roads.^[1]

State Highway 28
Route information
Maintained by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
Length	20.9 km (13.0 mi)
Major junctions
South end	SH 1 at Putāruru
Major intersections	SH 5 north near Tīrau SH 5 south near Tapapa
North end	SH 29 near Te Poi
Location
Country	New Zealand
Highway system
New Zealand state highways Motorways and expressways List
← SH 27 → SH 29

Route

SH 28 leaves SH 1 at Putāruru on Whites Road and after travelling north-east for 5.8 km the highway meets SH 5 and shares a concurrency eastbound for 2.5 km. SH 28 then leaves SH 5 and travels northbound on Harwoods Road /Te Poi Road (South) for the next 10.7 km where it turns east at a T-junction onto Rapurapu Road. The last 5 km leads to its terminus at SH 29 just at the foot of the Kaimai Ranges.^[2]

See also

• List of New Zealand state highways