Kamilaroi Highway

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Kamilaroi Highway

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Length	598 km
General direction	Northwest-Southeast
From	Mitchell Highway / Kidman Way, Bourke, New South Wales
via	Brewarrina, Walgett, Cryon, Burren Junction, Wee Waa, Narrabri, Boggabri, Gunnedah, Curlewis, Breeza, Quirindi, Braefield
To	New England Highway, Willow Tree, New South Wales
Allocation	Narrabri - Narrabri West: (duplex with ) Gunnedah West - Gunnedah: (duplex with )
Major Junctions	Castlereagh Highway Newell Highway Oxley Highway

A small mirage on the Kamilaroi Highway near Cryon, NSW

Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales. It has been given the national route number 37. Its status as a highway is fairly new.

It runs 620 km from Willow Tree on the New England Highway in central New South Wales in a north-western direction until it reaches Bourke on the Mitchell Highway. The Kamilaroi Highway offers the most direct route from the Great Divide to the Outback.

The highway is named after the Kamilaroi Indigenous Australian people who live in the area.

Five kilometres north of Boggabri is the spectacular landmark, Gin’s Leap, which was known in Cobb and Co coach days as “The Rock”.

It is said that a young Aboriginal girl, promised to an elder of her tribe, the Kamilaroi, ran away with a young aboriginal man from another tribe. While being pursued by Kamilaroi tribesmen, the lovers jumped to their death from somewhere along the top of this rock.