Barkly Highway

The Barkly Highway is a national highway of both Queensland and the Northern Territory.[2]

Barkly Highway[1] Northern Territory –Queensland
Barkly Highway in Queensland
General information
Type	Highway
Length	754 km (469 mi)
Route number(s)	National Highway 66 (Tennant Creek - NT/Qld Border; future route B66) National Highway A2 (NT/Qld Border - Cloncurry)
Former route number	National Highway 66 (Entire route)
Major junctions
West end	Stuart Highway, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
	Tablelands Highway (Northern Territory State Route 11) Diamantina Developmental Road (National Route 83) Burke Developmental Road (National Route 83)
East end	Landsborough Highway, Cloncurry, Queensland, duplexed with Flinders Highway
Location(s)
Major settlements	Camooweal, Mount Isa
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in the Northern Territory Highways in Queensland

Description

The highway runs between Cloncurry and the junction with the Stuart Highway north of Tennant Creek, known as the "Threeways". The entire highway is part of the National Highway system: in the Northern Territory it is assigned National Route 66; the Queensland portion is designated as National Route A2.

An upgrade of the Queensland section of the highway between Mount Isa and Camooweal was completed in 2008 and despite floods of 2009, 2010 and 2011, the Queensland sections of road were in good condition (as of 2015).

The Northern Territory section has a speed limit of 130 km per hour along most of its length.[3] It is the main transport route between Queensland and the Northern Territory, consequently many road trains use it.

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  Barkly Highway in Queensland and the Northern Territory (green and black)

Approximate road distances (in kilometres) from Mount Isa westwards

List of towns along the Barkly Highway

• Cloncurry
• Mount Isa
• Camooweal

Major intersections

State	LGA	Location	km[4]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Northern Territory	Barkly	Warumungu	0	0.0	Stuart Highway (National Highway 87) - north  – Daly Waters south  – Alice Springs	Barkly Highway western terminus - continues east as National Highway 66
		Tablelands	186	116	Tablelands Highway (State Route 11) - north  – Cape Crawford
Northern Territory – Queensland state border			433	269	Northern Territory – Queensland state border	Barkly Highway continues east as National Highway A2
Queensland	Mount Isa	Camooweal	446	277	Camooweal Urandangie Road - south  – Urandangi
			448	278	Gregory Downs Camooweal Road - north-east  – Gregory, Burketown
		Mount Isa	635	395	Boulia Mount Isa Highway (Diamantina Developmental Road) (National Route 83) - south  – Dajarra, Boulia	Barkly Highway continues east as National Highway A2 duplexed with National Route 83. Western concurrency terminus with National Route 83.
	Leichhardt River		635	395	Sir James Foots Bridge
	Cloncurry	Cloncurry	754	469	Burke Developmental Road (National Route 83) - north  – Normanton Flinders Highway (Queensland Highway A6), duplexed with Landsborough Highway (National Highway A2)  – Cloncurry, Julia Creek, Mckinlay	Eastern end of Barkly Highway. Eastern concurrency terminus with National Route 83.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Route transition

See also

 Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in the Northern Territory
• List of highways in Queensland
• List of highways numbered 66

References

1. Driver, A.R. (1 May 1947). "THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA, Nomenclature (Public Places) Ordinance 1945". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette (79). Australia, Australia. p. 1233. Retrieved 22 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia. Barkly Highway.—The main road stretching from the Northern Territory Queensland Border in the vicinity of Camooweal in a westerly direction to join the Stuart Highway at a point about 15 miles north of Tennant Creek.
2. Hema, Maps (2005). Australia’s Great Desert Tracks NE Sheet (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. ISBN 978-1865005461.
3. "Northern Territory Information". Gondwananet.
4. Google (24 December 2017). "Barkly Highway" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

External links

Media related to Barkly Highway at Wikimedia Commons