Barkly Highway

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Barkly Highway


Length	755 km
General direction	West-East
From	Stuart Highway, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
via	Camooweal, Qld, Mt. Isa, Qld
To	Landsborough Highway, Cloncurry, Queensland
Allocation	Tennant Creek - NT/Qld Border: NT/Qld Border - Cloncurry: Formerly
Major Junctions	Tablelands Highway Diamantina Developmental Road Burke Developmental Road

The Barkly Highway is a national highway of both Queensland and the Northern Territory. It runs westward from Cloncurry and the junctions of the Flinders and Landsborough highways to the junction with the Stuart Highway north of Tennant Creek. The entire highway is part of the National Highway system: it is assigned National Route 66; the Queensland portion was recently redesignated as National Route A2.

Between Mount Isa and Camooweal, the highway was in a poor state with narrow and pot-holed single lane surfaces. Over $30 million (Australian) has been invested to upgrade the Barkly Highway to highway standard. The Northern Territory side of the highway is in excellent condition.

It is the main transport route between Queensland and the Northern Territory and one can see many road trains along it.