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Potholes in Ararat

Ararat Rural City Council

Hit a pothole in Ararat? Put it on the public record — a photo, the location and the date, in about 30 seconds and with no account. We work out which authority owns that stretch from where you pin it, so a report on a state arterial does not sit in a council queue that was never going to action it.

Report a pothole in Ararat

Roads in Ararat that are not Ararat Rural City Council's

15 roads through this council area are managed by the Department of Transport and Planning. Reporting a defect on one of them to the council is the most common reason a pothole report goes nowhere — it was never theirs to fix, and the clock that matters for a damage claim never starts.

  • Ararat-Halls Gap Road
  • Ararat-Halls Gap Road W
  • Ararat-St Arnaud Road
  • Buangor Bypass (Sec 3)
  • Glenelg Highway
  • Grampians Road
  • Maroona-Glenthompson Road
  • Mortlake-Ararat Road
  • Peacocks Road
  • Pomonal Road
  • Pyrenees Highway
  • Rossbridge-Streatham Road
  • Victoria Valley Road
  • Western Freeway
  • and 1 more

Source: DTP Managed Roads, State of Victoria, CC BY 4.0.

Roads already documented as bad

Published assessments by other organisations, quoted with their source. These are not reports on this register and cannot support a damage claim — they are where to look.

  • Glenelg HighwayLake Bolac to Dunkeld

    74 km

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Pyrenees HighwayAvoca to Ararat

    79.4 km

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Western HighwayArarat to Stawell

    58.5 km

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Glenelg HighwayDunkeld to Hamilton

    62.6 km · 2.1 km from Ararat

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Western HighwayHorsham to Stawell

    94.9 km · 3.3 km from Ararat

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Western HighwayTrawalla to Beaufort

    43.1 km · 9.6 km from Ararat

    The roads Victorians nominated as the state's worst in 2024.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2024 results · October 2024

  • Hamilton HighwayMortlake to Hamilton

    101.9 km · 17.2 km from Ararat

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

  • Western Highway

    0 km · 17.3 km from Ararat

    Police said emergency services were called after reports that a motorcycle had struck a pothole and lost control. The circumstances are under investigation.

    Source: ABC News · September 2026

  • Henty HighwayHorsham to Hamilton

    155.1 km · 22.4 km from Ararat

    RACV and the AAA assessed 19,800 km of regional Victorian roads against AusRAP criteria and shortlisted 52 highway sections. 64% of survey respondents named potholes and rough surfaces as their top safety concern.

    Source: RACV My Country Road 2026 · June 2026

On the register in Ararat

Nothing yet — nobody has filed a report routed to Ararat Rural City Council. The register publishes only what somebody actually photographed, so this says something about how new we are rather than about Ararat's roads.

If a pothole in Ararat damaged your car

Victoria's Road Management Act sets a threshold below which a road authority has no liability at all. For 2026-27 it is $1,681, assessed against the financial year the damage happened in. What that means for a claim.

Suburbs in Ararat

58 gazetted localities. Each one lists its own roads and who maintains them.