diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce.go
index 64d7651ed08..dfc7904019d 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce.go
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ const (
 	// AffinityTypeClientIPProto - affinity based on Client IP and port.
 	gceAffinityTypeClientIPProto = "CLIENT_IP_PROTO"
 
-	operationPollInterval        = 3 * time.Second
-	operationPollTimeoutDuration = 30 * time.Minute
+	operationPollInterval = 3 * time.Second
+	// Creating Route in very large clusters, may take more than half an hour.
+	operationPollTimeoutDuration = time.Hour
 
 	// Each page can have 500 results, but we cap how many pages
 	// are iterated through to prevent infinite loops if the API