Kennedy Highway

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Kennedy Highway Kennedy Developmental Road
Length	1163 km
General direction	Northeast-Southwest
From	Captain Cook Highway, Smithfield, Queensland
via	Mareeba, Ravenshoe, Lynd Junction, Hughenden, Winton, Hamilton
To	Diamantina Developmental Road, Bouila, Queensland
Allocation	Smithfield - Forty Mile Scrub: Forty Mile Scrub - Bouila:
Major Junctions	Mulligan Highway Palmerston Highway Gulf Developmental Road Gregory Developmental Road Flinders Highway Landsborough Highway

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 the Gulf Development Road 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.

Past Mount Garnet, the Kennedy Highway is mostly single lane bitumen. There are a number of large reddish termite mounds along the highway.

[edit] See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland