The main gate, an arch, has been rebuilt a number of times. The first gate was demolished and rebuilt when the road was widened, another was knocked over by a truck and a third arch was razed during the Ash Wednesday fires. The gate is not actually located at the beginning of the road.
Hugging tightly to the coast, the road offers outstanding views of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean. The section near Port Campbell covers some of the most scenic coastline in the world, because of its striking and dramatic natural rock formations. These formations include Loch Ard Gorge, the Grotto, London Bridge (renamed to London Arch in recent years after the 'bridge' partially collapsed), and most famously The Twelve Apostles.
