Snowy Mountains Highway
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Hume Highway between Tarcutta and Tumalong ( NSW ) ( 35 ° 11 ' S , 147 ° 52' O ) |
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Tathra Bermagui Road Tathra ( NSW ) ( 36 ° 44 ′ S , 149 ° 59 ′ E ) |
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Overall length: | 359 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Snowy Mountains Highway is a trunk road in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . It connects the Hume Highway between Tarcutta and Tumalong with Tathra on the New South Wales coast. He crosses the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park and the Great Dividing Range east of Cooma , the largest city on this road.
course
About 9 km east of the junction of the Sturt Highway (N20) to the west, the Snowy Mountains Highway branches off from the Hume Highway (N31) to the southeast. The first major settlement on the road is Tumut , after which the highway crosses the river of the same name and rises into the Snowy Mountains. The Snowy Mountains Highway crosses the Kosciuszko National Park past the reservoirs of the Tumut River, such as the Blowering Reservoir , Talbingo Dam and Tumut Pond . At Lake Eucumbene - located south of the road - it leaves the national park again and heads for Cooma, where it reaches the Monaro Highway (R23).
Together with the Monaro Highway, the Snowy Mountains Highway leaves Cooma in a southeastern direction and crosses the ridge of the Great Dividing Range. Approx. The two highways separate again 10 km south of Nimmitabel . While the Monaro Highway continues south towards Bombala , the Snowy Mountains Highway runs east past Brown Mountain in the South East Forest National Park . Approx. 7 km north of Bega it meets the Princes Highway (R1) and accompanies it south to Bega. There the Princes Highway continues south, while the Snowy Mountains Highway overcomes the last 17 km to the small town of Tathra on the coast as Tathra Road .
Road conditions
In winter the highway is subject to heavy snowfall on the way to the Selwyn Snowfields and ski resorts there.
Web links
source
Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing. Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . Pp. 33, 34, 35