New Zealand State Highway 94

State Highway SH94 in New Zealand
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Basic data
Operator:	New Zealand Transport Agency
Start of the street:	Gore ( 46 ° 6 ′  S , 168 ° 57 ′  E )
End of street:	Milford Sound ( 44 ° 40 ′  S , 167 ° 56 ′  E )
Overall length:	258 km
Regions :	Southland
Development condition:	2 × 1 lane
around 4 km before the Homer Tunnel Mount Talbot 2105  m  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The New Zealand State Highway 94 ( State Highway 94 or SH 94 for short ) is a trunk road of national importance on the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The trunk road has a length of 258 km and extends from the southern part of the South Island to the west coast. The two-lane road (one for each direction of travel) over its entire length connects State Highway 1 in Gore with Milford Sound on the west coast of the South Island. The road leads across the Southland region .

Routing

The State Highway 94 begins at the branch State Highway 1 in downtown Gore , about 270 meters west of the Mataura River . From the roundabout, the road initially runs north, only to bend to north-north-west after leaving the town and later to turn north-west. On its approximately 60 km to Lumsden , where the SH 94 meets the New Zealand State Highway 6 , the road passes the small villages of Mandeville , Riversdale and Balfour . From Lumsden , the SH 94 runs north on the same route as SH 6 , then bends west for a total of 2.5 km and then west-northwest towards Mossburn . In the center of Mossburn , the New Zealand State Highway 97 branches off to the northeast and, as Mossburn Five Rivers Road, forms a cross-connection to SH 6, which runs further north . Behind Mossburn , the SH 94 leaves the Oreti River on the right and moves north along the up to 1634  m high Takitimu Mountains and previously crossing the Mararoa River and Whitestone River , towards the next largest city Te Anau . Shortly before the city limits of Te Anau , the New Zealand State Highway 99 branches off to the southwest from SH 94 . After a straight road of almost one kilometer within Te Anau , the SH 94 makes a 90 degree bend to the northeast and follows the road on the west side of Lake Te Anau to Te Anau Downs , where it bends at a right angle to the east then after 2.5 km to the northeast, plunge into the valley of the Eglinton River and follow the river to Lake Gunn and Lake Fergus . Then the road between the mountains of the Darran Mountains in the northeast and the Wick Mountain in the southwest presses towards the Homer Tunnel . The road tunnel opened in 1954 crosses the saddle for a length of 1.24 km between the 1931  m high Mount McPerson on the north side and the 1965  m high Mount Moir on the south side, which close the valley to the west. On the west side of the saddle the valley of the Cleddau River opens up, which accompanies the SH 94 up to 1.5 km before its end point in the parking lot to the excursion boats on Milford Sound .

Important junctions

District	place	km	Connection after	Remarks
Gore District	Gore	0	SH 1 north (Medway Street) Dunedin	SH 94 begins
			SH 1 south (Main Street) of Invercargill
Southland District	Lumsden	61	SH 6 south (Diana Street) Invercargill	common course SH 94 / SH 6 begins
		64	SH 6 north (Five Rivers Lumsden Highway) Queenstown	common course SH 94 / SH 6 ends
			Oreti River
	Mossburn	80	SH 97 (Essex Street) Queenstown
	The Key	124	(Hillside Manapouri Road) Manapouri
	Te Anau	138	SH 95 / Southern Scenic Route (Manapouri Te Anau Highway) Lake Te Anau , Manapouri
		238	Homer Tunnel 1270 m
	Milford Sound	256		SH 94 ends

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} New Zealand Touring Atlas . 5th edition. Hema Maps , Brisbane 2015, ISBN 978-1-907302-92-3 , pp.  Map 64, 70, 72, 78 (English).
2. ↑ Homer Tunnel . Engineering New Zealand , accessed April 18, 2020 .  
3. ↑ Homer Tunnel, Southland . In: NZ Topo Map . Gavin Harriss , accessed April 18, 2020 .