Barwon Highway

Barwon Highway
Length	168 km (104 mi)
Direction	West-East
From	Carnarvon Highway, 37km south of St George, Queensland
via	Talwood, Bungunya
To	Leichhardt Highway Newell Highway Cunningham Highway Goondiwindi, Queensland NSW/Qld Border

The Barwon Highway is one of the more obscure state highways of Queensland. It joins the Leichhardt Highway a few kilometres north of Goondiwindi and travels west for a couple of hundred kilometres until it reaches the Carnarvon Highway at Nindigully, 44 kilometres south of St George, and then terminates. Route 85 continues north-east of Goondiwindi as National Highway 85's Gore Highway.

It was named after the Barwon River, which travels in the same general direction as the highway, but further south, where it forms part of the border between Queensland and New South Wales.

This highway is part of State Route 85, which extends for over 570 kilometres (354 mi) from Bribie Island to Nindigully, duplexing with the Brisbane Valley Highway (National Route 17) from the D'Aguilar Highway to Esk, the New England Highway (State Route A3) from Hampton to Toowoomba, the Gore Highway (National Route A39 - formerly 85) from Toowoomba to the Leichhardt Highway, and the southern 19 kilometres (12 mi) section of the Leichhardt Highway (also National Route A39) to Goondiwindi.

Stock route

Like many Australian roads, the Barwon Highway follows a declared stock route. The road reserve for most stock routes is wider than for other roads (up to 1600 metres) When seen from the air (or in the Satellite view of Google maps) the substantial width of the western end (from Nindigully to Talwood) can be clearly seen due to the difference in colour between roadside brigalow scrub and adjacent cropland.

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland
• Brigalow Belt
• List of highways numbered 85