State Highway 86 is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 State Highway

State highway

State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 connecting the city of Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

's airport

Dunedin International Airport

Dunedin International Airport is an international airport in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand, serving Dunedin city and the Otago and Southland regions. Dunedin International Airport is one of two international airports in Otago, the other being Queenstown International Airport...

 to State Highway 1 and the city itself. It is one of the more recent highways, gazetted in around 2003-04 . It is a two-lane single carriageway.

Route

As of 2011, the current route is as follows:

The road begins at an intersection with SH 1 in the satellite town of Allanton and proceeds in a north-northwesterly direction over the Taieri Plains

Taieri Plains

The Taieri Plains are an area of fertile agricultural land to the southwest of Dunedin, in Otago, New Zealand. The plains cover an area of some 300 square kilometres, with a maximum extent of 30 kilometres....

. After about 1.5 km the road curves to the west-southwest and proceeds for about 3.5 km before veering to the NNW and then to the SSW again at Momona before terminating at Dunedin airport.