Mulligan Highway

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Mulligan Highway
Formerly Cooktown Developmental Road
General direction	North-South
From	Endeavour Valley Road, Cooktown, Queensland
via	Lakeland, Mount Molloy
To	Kennedy Highway, Mareeba, Queensland
Major Junctions	Peninsula Developmental Road Mossman-Mt Molloy Road Mareeba-Dimbulah Road

The Mulligan Highway is a new state highway in Queensland, Australia. It runs for approximately 270 km between Mareeba and Cooktown, on the east coast of the Cape York Peninsula where it terminates.

Named after bushman James Venture Mulligan the sealed Highway follows the old Cooktown Developmental Road and was completed in 2006.

Since it has replaced the old unpaved track, travel times from Cairns to Cooktown have gone down from 6 to only 3½ hours.

[edit] List of towns along the highway

• Mount Molloy
• Lakeland

[edit] See also

• Black Mountain National Park
• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland