The A64 is a major road in North and West Yorkshire, England, which links Leeds, York and Scarborough.

The road begins in Leeds as the motorway A64(M) at Richmond Hill and the Woodpecker Junction, and close to the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the NHS's imposing Quarry House.

It meets Foundry Lane and Cross Gates Road at a roundabout next to Killingbeck police station.

East of the junction at Stutton with Hazlewood, the Roman Ridge joins the road, which the A64 follows until the Tadcaster bypass.

In February 2004, work began on a new £11 million flyover at the Colton Lane/Bilbrough Top junction, allowing for the closing of the central reserve.

The central reserve had long been an accident blackspot, and residents of the local villages had campaigned for its closure.

On the left is Askham Bryan College (agricultural), then Copmanthorpe is on the right, followed by Bishopthorpe (where the Archbishop of York lives).

There is a junction for York's northern bypass (A1237), which was built in the late 1980s, and on the left is Pike Hills golf club and Askham Bogs nature reserve where the road is followed by NCN 66.

The East Coast Main Line (Selby Diversion) passes under the A1036 junction for York to the left.

[3] It passes under the B1222 and meets the A19 at the Fulford Interchange, near the headquarters of Persimmon plc, and is crossed by the Minster Way, then the Wilberforce Way.

The University is now much closer to the bypass due to its new Heslington East campus, and the Grimston Bar Park and Ride is accessed from the same junction.

Going east in the direction of Scarborough, it passes the Highwayman cafe on the left, and the Vertigrow Garden Centre, close to where the former York to Beverley Line crossed.

The road passes the Hare and Hounds and the Shell Staxton and a mile northwards from the A1039 roundabout It then goes across the River Hertford.

The route travels through the Edgehill and Falsgrave areas of the town, passing the Lidl supermarket and Seamer Road Retail Park.

The A64 ends at the junction with the A165, outside Scarborough railway station and the Stephen Joseph Theatre The A64(M), together with the A58(M), form a ring road around city centre of Leeds.

It was built as an extension from the existing ring road, to relieve Leeds from severe traffic congestion.

The motorway cuts through inner-city neighbourhoods such as Woodhouse, Sheepscar, and Buslingthorpe, forming an important link in the road network by allowing traffic from the A65, A660, A58, A61 and A64 to bypass the city centre completely.

In 2021, National Highways produced three options regarding dualling the single carriageway section between Hopgrove and Barton Le Willows.

The IRA gunmen who shot the two PC's escaped and after a manhunt were later imprisoned and then released under the Good Friday Agreement.

[7] On the morning of 22 December 2014, ex-professional footballer Clarke Carlisle was hit by a lorry on the A64 near Bishopthorpe, North Yorkshire, and was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary[8] having suffered cuts, bruises, internal bleeding, a broken rib and a shattered left knee.