The road measures 107.90 miles long and would take a car obeying speed limits 3 hours and 38 minutes to travel its length.
The A61 is a A Road and is located in the Zone 6 Highways Region.
This is a true long-distance route, journeying through numerous towns like HARROGATE, Killinghall, Ripley, South Stainley, Wormald Green, Bishop Monkton, Bishop Monkton Moor, Littlethorpe, RIPON, Sharow, Hutton Conyers, Baldersby, Howe, Skipton Bridge, THIRSK, Carlton Miniott, Sowerby, South Kilvington, Pannal, Kirkby Overblow, Weeton, Harewood, LEEDS, Hunslet, Rothwell, Robin Hood, Lofthouse, Outwood, WAKEFIELD, OSSETT, Newmillerdam, Woolley, Staincross, Mapplewell, BARNSLEY, Worsbrough Bridge, Worsbrough, Birdwell, Tankersley, High Green, Chapeltown, Burncross, Grenoside, SHEFFIELD, DRONFIELD, Dronfield Woodhouse, CHESTERFIELD, Old Whittington, Whittington Moor, Wingerworth, New Tupton, Old Tupton, Clay Cross, Stretton, Higham, Shirland, ALFRETON, DERBY, and Little Eaton.
The road passes through several counties, including North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and Derbyshire.