Gregory Highway

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gregory Highway / Gregory Developmental Road
Greenvale-Rolleston:
Length	962 kilometres
General direction:	North-South
From:	39 kms east of Georgetown, Queensland
To:	Rolleston, Queensland
Towns along highway:	Lynd Junction, Charters Towers, Belyando Crossing, Clermont, Emerald, Springsure

The Gregory Highway is a state highway in Queensland that serves the major coal-mining centres of Central Queensland. The highway was named after Augustus Gregory, an early explorer.

It runs southward from outside Georgetown off the Gulf Developmental Road, via Lynd Junction ("The Lynd") and Charters Towers, to Rolleston, nearly 1000 kilometres away.

North of Clermont it is known as the Gregory Developmental Road or the Great Inland Road and it is a very lonely road comprised of one-laned bitumen used mainly by road trains, travelling through very monotonous scrub-land.

[edit] List of towns along the Gregory Highway

• Lynd Junction
• Charters Towers
• Belyando Crossing
• Clermont
• Capella
• Emerald
• Springsure
• Rolleston

[edit] See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland