Captain Cook Highway

Captain Cook Highway is a short Queensland highway that starts in Cairns and ends in Mossman, where it joins Mossman-Daintree Road, which continues to Daintree.[1][2]

Captain Cook Highway Queensland
The highway at Craiglie near Port Douglas
Captain Cook Highway (green on black)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	75 km (47 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 44 (Mossman - Smithfield) (Cairns North - Kennedy Highway Junction/Smithfield Shopping Centre roundabout National Route 1 (Smithfield Shopping Centre roundabout northeast - Mossman)
Major junctions
South end	Bruce Highway (Queensland Highway A1), Cairns
	Kamerunga Road (State Route 91) Kennedy Highway (National Route 1) Mossman-Mt Molloy Rd (State Route 44)
North end	Mossman-Daintree Road, Mossman
Location(s)
Major settlements	Smithfield, Palm Cove, Port Douglas
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Queensland

Captain Cook Highway is used by many tourists to travel to Port Douglas north of Cairns. Apart from being a vital link between two tourist locations, Captain Cook Highway is a scenic highway that winds alongside the coast of the tropical seaside rainforest heading towards Port Douglas and Daintree National Park.

Route description

The highway commences at the northern end of the A1 Bruce Highway, in Cairns. It runs as the A1 north through Cairns to the suburb of Smithfield at the Smithfield Shopping Centre roundabout junction with the Kennedy Highway, crossing the south arm of the Barron River. From the Smithfield Shopping Centre roundabout north-east it continues as State Route 44 through the beachside suburbs of Kewarra Beach and Palm Cove, and then follows the coast almost to Port Douglas. It then proceeds north-west to Mossman where it terminates.

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Cairns	Cairns	0	0.0	Bruce Highway (Florence Street) (Queensland Highway A1) - south-west - Woree / Sheridan Street - south-east - Cairns CBD / Florence Street - north-east - Cairns waterfront	Southern end of Captain Cook Highway (National Route 1) Continues north-west as Sheridan Street.
Barron River		6.9	4.3	William Walter Mason Bridges
Cairns	Smithfield	12.1	7.5	Brinsmead Kamerunga Road (State Route 91) - south - Kamerunga
		13.1	8.1	Kennedy Highway (National Route 1) - west - Kuranda	Captain Cook Highway continues north as State Route 44
Douglas	Port Douglas	61.1	38.0	Port Douglas Road - north-east - Port Douglas
	Bonnie Doon / Shannonvale / Cassowary tripoint[3]	71.2	44.2	Mossman Mount Molloy Road (State Route 44) - south - Mount Molloy	Captain Cook Highway continues west with no route number
	Mossman	75.4	46.9	Mill Street - east - Mossman CBD / Mossman Daintree Road (Foxton Avenue) - north-west - Daintree / Junction Road - north-east - Bonnie Doon	Northern end of Captain Cook Highway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition

• 
  Captain Cook Highway, Ellis Beach, 2018
• 
  Captain Cook Highway, Wangetti, 2015
• 
  Captain Cook Highway, Craiglie, 2015
• 
  Captain Cook Highway at Mossman, 2015

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland
• William Walter Mason Bridge

References

1. Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
2. Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
3. Google (20 July 2017). "Bonnie Doon / Shannonvale / Cassowary tripoint" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

External links

Media related to Captain Cook Highway at Wikimedia Commons