Low Bridge Map — Australia
There are 6,868 recorded height restrictions on roads in Australia — bridges, tunnels, underpasses and height barriers. The lowest clearance a road vehicle could pass is 2.00 m — anything tagged lower is a gate or a barrier — and 1,063 restrictions are under 2.5 m. This map shows all of them, and the data behind it is rebuilt every week.
The map
The lowest clearances in Australia
The 100 lowest signed restrictions, lowest first. Every one of the 6,868 is on the map above.
| Location | Height | Type | Road | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield Bondi Junction Car Park · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | P4 | New South Wales |
| Hainsworth Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Rose Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Victor Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Catherine Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | tunnel | — | Queensland |
| Hill Street · Toowoomba | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Flinders Lane · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Glebe Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Glebe Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Mahoneys Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Canterbury Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Mahoneys Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Veloway 1 · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Shore Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Shore Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Dee Why RSL Car Wash · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Hay Street · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| Centro Burnie Car Park · Burnie | 2.00 m | tunnel | — | Tasmania |
| Henry Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Westfield Geelong · Geelong | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| National Gallery of Australia Underground Car Park (P1) · Canberra | 2.00 m | restriction | — | District of Canberra Central |
| Charles Street · Newcastle | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Burdett Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Riverside Expressway · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Burdett Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Muriel Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Muriel Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Tingha Pathway · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Victoria Avenue · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Albert Avenue · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Wilga Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Wilga Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Albert Avenue · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Lang Centre Secure Parking · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Church Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Barracks Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Ernest Cavanagh Street · District of Gungahlin | 2.00 m | restriction | — | — |
| Ernest Cavanagh Street · District of Gungahlin | 2.00 m | restriction | — | — |
| Tibbereena Street · Narrabri | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Weeroona Avenue · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Park Avenue · Coffs Harbour | 2.00 m | tunnel | — | New South Wales |
| No 2 - Jim Patch gate · Crows Nest | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Cultural Centre Tunnel · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | P2 | Queensland |
| Cultural Centre Tunnel · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | P3 | Queensland |
| Queens Parade · Sydney | 2.00 m | tunnel | — | New South Wales |
| Eddy Road · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Montreal Street · Fremantle | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| Boundary Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Boundary Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Leura Avenue · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| Plantation Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Plantation Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Plantation Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Martens Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| East Parade · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| City Road · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Brougham Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Argyle Street · Hobart | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Tasmania |
| Merivale Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | 3 | Queensland |
| Wilga Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Albert Avenue · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Bridge Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Bridge Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Brisbane Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Cooks to Cove GreenWay · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Sudholz Place · Adelaide | 2.00 m | restriction | — | South Australia |
| Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| London House Car Park · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| Cloisters · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| Brimbank Boulevard · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Brimbank Boulevard · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Brimbank Boulevard · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Albert Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Garfield Street · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Carrington Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | tunnel | — | Victoria |
| Wilson Parking · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Victoria Street · Parkes | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Forrest Street · Geraldton | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Western Australia |
| West St stage 1 · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Frobisher Road · Adelaide | 2.00 m | restriction | — | South Australia |
| Woodlands Road · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Peel Street · Brisbane | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Queensland |
| Paterson Street · Launceston | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Tasmania |
| Paterson Street · Launceston | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Tasmania |
| Paterson Street · Launceston | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Tasmania |
| Hermitage Road · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Hermitage Road · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Whitehorse Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Whitehorse Road · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Kiernan Avenue · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| Andrew Nash Lane · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
| Little Bourke Street · Melbourne | 2.00 m | restriction | — | Victoria |
| ParkAt · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | Location ID: 546108 | Western Australia |
| ParkAt · Perth | 2.00 m | restriction | Location ID: 546108 | Western Australia |
| Roselands Drive · Sydney | 2.00 m | restriction | — | New South Wales |
By region
Where the 6,868 restrictions in Australia are, across 8 regions.
| Region | Restrictions | Lowest |
|---|---|---|
| New South Wales | 2,390 | 2.00 m |
| Queensland | 2,108 | 2.00 m |
| Victoria | 1,665 | 2.00 m |
| Tasmania | 226 | 2.00 m |
| South Australia | 177 | 2.00 m |
| Western Australia | 161 | 2.00 m |
| Australian Capital Territory | 110 | 2.00 m |
| Northern Territory | 31 | 2.10 m |
How to read this data
Every point on this map comes from open map data, where a height restriction is recorded against the road, the bridge or the barrier it applies to. We rebuild our copy of Australia once a week, so a clearance corrected on Monday is here by the following weekend. The table lists the 100 lowest restrictions in the country; the map shows every one of them.
Of the 6,868 restrictions in Australia, 978 carry no height at all. That does not mean the road is clear. It means somebody recorded that a limit exists without recording the number — an unsigned height barrier, a sign nobody has read closely, or a tag that says only "lower than the usual limit". Treat those as unknown obstacles, not as open road. The rest break down as 1,063 under 2.5 m, 478 between 2.5 and 3.2 m, 561 between 3.2 and 4.0 m, and 3,788 above 4.0 m, with a median stated clearance of 4.50 m.
Coverage is uneven, and honestly so
This data is surveyed by people, and people survey what they drive. Motorways and trunk roads in Australia are close to complete; farm tracks, private yards and small village underpasses are not. New South Wales alone accounts for 2,390 of the country's restrictions, which says as much about who maps there as about where the low bridges are. A road with no marker on this map has probably never been surveyed for clearance — it is not a guarantee of headroom.
How tall is your vehicle
| Vehicle | Typical height |
|---|---|
| Small campervan (VW California, Transit Custom) | 2.0–2.2 m |
| Panel van conversion with a roof vent | 2.6–2.9 m |
| Coachbuilt motorhome | 3.0–3.5 m |
| Motorhome with a roof box or satellite dome | up to 3.6 m |
| Box truck / lorry | 4.0 m |
Measure yours rather than trusting the brochure: an air conditioner, a solar panel or a roof rack routinely adds 20 cm to a figure that was measured empty, and a loaded suspension does not give it back. Write the number on a sticker on the dashboard — it is the only figure that matters at the moment you are looking at a bridge and a queue of traffic behind you.
Before you drive
Restrictions cluster where old railways cross old roads, and those are exactly the routes a satnav picks to avoid a motorway toll. If your vehicle is over 3 m, plan the route before you start rather than trusting the shortest line on a phone screen.
Questions
How do I find the low bridges on my route in Australia?
Open the map above and look along your route before you leave: all 6,868 recorded restrictions in Australia are on it, coloured by clearance, and the table lists the 100 lowest with the town and road each one is on. On the road itself you want something watching ahead for you — a plan made at the kitchen table does not help at a junction you have already reached.
What is the maximum vehicle height allowed in Australia?
The general limit is 4.30 m, and anything lower than that has to be signed. That is exactly what makes the 6,868 restrictions on this page worth reading: they are the places where the ordinary limit does not apply.
How many low bridges are there in Australia?
Recorded here are 6,868 height restrictions of every kind — railway bridges, tunnels, underpasses and height barriers. 1,063 of them are under 2.5 m and 478 are between 2.5 and 3.2 m — the band that stops an ordinary campervan — while 3,788 are above 4.0 m.
What is the lowest bridge in Australia?
The lowest clearance a road vehicle could pass is 2.00 m; anything tagged lower is a gate or a barrier rather than a road. The median stated clearance is 4.50 m, and the table above starts at the lowest and works up.
A restriction on the map has no height. Does that mean the road is clear?
No. 978 of the 6,868 restrictions in Australia carry no number at all: somebody recorded that a limit exists without recording what it is — an unsigned barrier, a sign nobody read closely. Treat those as unknown obstacles, not as open road.
Where does this data come from, and how current is it?
From OpenStreetMap, rebuilt weekly; these figures were last measured on October 25, 2026. Coverage is uneven and this page says so: New South Wales alone accounts for 2,390 of the restrictions, which is as much about where people survey as about where the low bridges are.
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On the road
This map is a planning tool. On the road, ilovay warns you about height restrictions ahead based on the height of your vehicle, and can route around them. Free on Android.