Kennedy Highway

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Kennedy Highway / Kennedy Developmental Road
Smithfield-Forty Mile Scrub:

Forty Mile Scrub-Hughenden:

Length	1198 kilometres
General direction:	Northeast-Southwest
From:	Smithfield, Queensland
To:	Boulia, Queensland
Towns along highway:	Mareeba, Ravenshoe, Lynd Junction, Hughenden, Winton, Hamilton

The Kennedy Highway (Highway 1) is a highway in northern Queensland, Australia. It runs for approximately 250km from Smithfield, on the northern outskirts of Cairns, to an unnamed junction in the vicinity of Forty Mile Scrub and Undara Volcanic national parks, about 40 kilometres south of Mount Garnet. South of this junction, the road continues as the Kennedy Developmental Road (State Highway 62) via Hughenden eventually to Boulia nearly 1000 kilometres away; National Route 1 and the Gulf Developmental Road head west to Normanton via Georgetown.

From Smithfield, the highway climbs up into the Atherton Tableland before heading in a general south-westerly direction to the aforementioned junction. The highway is mostly two-lanes. Major towns on, or just off, the Kennedy Highway include Smithfield, Kuranda, Mareeba, Atherton, Ravenshoe and Mount Garnet.