The A286 is an A class road in the south of England, from its northernmost point in Milford, Surrey, to Birdham, West Sussex.

The road is 32 miles (51 km) long and follows a predominantly rural route through common land, farmland, woodland and the South Downs.

The road rises steeply up Shepherd's Hill and down the other side, skirting the edge of Camelsdale (in the parish of Hammer) where it passes the southern end of the A287 before reaching the boundary with West Sussex.

Once in West Sussex, the route passes through Kingsley Green, a hamlet between Haslemere and Fernhurst, where the road was widened and straightened in the 1960s.

After a few more miles it reaches the village of Birdham, where it splits into two B-class roads – the B2179 to West Wittering and the B2198 to Bracklesham Bay.