Dawson Highway

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Dawson Highway
Dawson Developmental Road
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Basic data
Operator: Dept. of Transport and Main Roads
Start of the street: SQ58 Gladstone Mount Larcom Road /
Gladstone Benaraby Road

Gladstone ( QLD )
( 23 ° 51 ′  S , 151 ° 15 ′  E )
End of street: NA2 Landsborough Highway
Tambo ( QLD )
( 24 ° 53 ′  S , 146 ° 15 ′  E )
Overall length: 630 km

States :

Queensland

The Dawson Highway is a trunk road in Queensland , Australia . It has a length of 630 km and runs in an east-west direction from Gladstone on the east coast of Australia via Springsure to Tambo on the Landsborough Highway .

course

Gladstone - Rolleston

In the city center of Gladstone, the Dawson Highway branches off to the west from State Road 58 (connection Benaraby – Gladstone – Mount Larcom), runs along Calliope National Park and shortly afterwards crosses the Bruce Highway (NA1). Further west, in Biloela , it crosses the Burnett Highway (A3) and leads up into Banana Ridge . In Banana he crosses the Leichhardt Highway (A5) and continues on his way through bushland. After crossing the Comet River , the Dawson Highway reaches Rolleston .

Rolleston - Jumping Sure

From Rolleston, the Dawson Highway takes over the name A7 from the Carnarvon Highway connected to the south and continues 70 km to the northwest, where it merges into the Gregory Highway (A7) in Springsure , which runs parallel to the coast to the north.

Springsure - Tambo

From Springsure the street is called Dawson Developmental Road and is again number S60. It crosses - partly unpaved - the catchment area of ​​the Nogoa River north of the Carnarvon National Park in a west-southwest direction. It turns south in Killarney Park and meets the Landsborough Highway (NA2) 42 km further in Tambo.

source

Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 10 + 11