Barkly Highway
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| Barkly Highway | |
| Tennant Creek-NT/QLD border: | |
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| QLD/NT border-Cloncurry: | |
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| Length | 755 kilometres |
| General direction: | West-East |
| From: | Tennant Creek, NT |
| To: | Cloncurry, Queensland |
| Towns along highway: | Camooweal, Mt. Isa |
The Barkly Highway is a national highway of both Queensland and the Northern Territory. It runs westward from Cloncurry and the junctions of the Flinders and Landsborough highways to the junction with the Stuart Highway north of Tennant Creek. The entire highway is part of the National Highway system: it is assigned National Route 66; the Queensland portion was recently redesginated as National Route A2.
Between Mount Isa and Camooweal, the highway was in a poor state with narrow and pot-holed single lane surfaces. Over $30 million (Australian) has been invested to upgrade the Barkly Highway to highway standard. The Northern Territory side of the highway is in excellent condition.
It is the main transport route between Queensland and the Northern Territory and one can see many road trains along it.
[edit] List of towns along the Barkly Highway
[edit] See also
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