List of tourist drives in Queensland

List of tourist drives in Queensland includes numbered and un-numbered routes. Most routes have an official name, but some have been named in this article based on the region in which they occur. Some duplication of numbers exists where the Queensland Government and a local authority have each chosen the same number for use in different regions. General information about tourist drives in Queensland can be found here: [1].

Unless stated otherwise, all distance and road name information in this article is derived from Google Maps.

Strategic touring routes

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State Strategic Touring Routes are road routes in Queensland, Australia, which have been identified as significant to motoring tourists. These are the primary routes used by tourists as they provide the connections between popular tourist locations, and consequently have high volumes of tourist traffic. Standardised road signage is used to identify the route itself, with "Welcome to" signage at towns and districts of interest to tourists, as well as "turn off" signage to natural attractions.[1]

Route Component roads and streets From Via To Length Notes
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Adventure Way[2]
Brisbane Toowoomba, Dalby, St George, Cunnamulla, Thargomindah Durham 1,152 km (715.8 mi) Continues to Innamincka, South Australia. Length (from reference) is from Brisbane to Innamincka.

Australia's Country Way[3]
Rockhampton Monto, Wondai, Kingaroy, Yarraman, Toowoomba, Warwick Wallangarra 1,615 km (1,003.5 mi) Continues to Sydney. Length (from reference) is from Rockhampton to Sydney.

Capricorn Way[4]
Capricorn Highway Rockhampton Duaringa, Blackwater, Emerald, The Gemfields, Alpha Barcaldine 579 km (359.8 mi) Length is from reference.

Great Inland Way[5]
Hebel St George, Rolleston, Springsure, Conjuboy, Evelyn, Gordonvale Cairns Continues from Hebel to Sydney.

Leichhardt Way[6]
Goondiwindi Miles, Banana, Dululu, Westwood Rockhampton Continues from Goondiwindi to Melbourne.

Matilda Way[7]
Karumba Howitt, Cloncurry, Longreach, Augathella Barringun Continues to Bourke, New South Wales.

Overlanders Way[8]
Townsville Charters Towers, Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek, Cloncurry, Mount Isa Camooweal Continues to Tennant Creek, Northern Territory.

Pacific Coast Way[9]
Cairns Townsville, Mackay, Gympie, Brisbane Coolangatta Continues to Sydney.

Savannah Way[10]
Cairns
  • Atherton
  • Mt Surprise
  • Georgetown
  • Croydon
  • Normanton
  • Burketown
  • Doomadgee
Hells Gate Roadhouse

Continues to Broome, Western Australia. Alternate Routes:[11]

  • 40 Mile Scrub, Forsayth, Einasleigh, Georgetown
  • Mt Surprise, Chillagoe, Normanton
  • Burketown, Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill), Doomadgee

Warrego Way[12]
Brisbane Charleville Birdsville 1,578 km (980.5 mi) Length from reference.

Un-numbered tourist drives

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Route Component roads and streets From Via To Length Notes
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Brisbane Valley Drive
  •   Brisbane Valley Highway
  •     D'Aguilar Highway
Blacksoil
  • Fernvale
  • Esk
  • Toogoolawah
  • Blackbutt
Yarraman

The Canecutter Way[13]
Kurrimine Beach
  • Mena Creek
  • Paronella Park
  • Mamu Tropical Skywalk
Innisfail

Cobb and Co Tourist Drive[14][15]
Ipswich Grandchester Toowoomba 120 km (74.6 mi) Length from reference.


Dingo Barrier Fence Drive[16]
  •   Dalby Jandowae Road
  • Lyndley Connection Road
  • Lyndley Lane
  • Fletchers Road
Jandowae 110 km (68.4 mi)


Granite Belt Drive[17]
Granite Belt Drive Dalveen Cottonvale, Thulimbah The Summit 12 km (7.5 mi) Loop route from and to New England Highway. Length from reference. Signed as  

Great Barrier Reef Tourist Drive[18]
Smithfield, Cairns
  • Rex Lookout
  • Four Mile Beach, Port Douglas
  • Mossman Gorge
  • Alexandra Lookout
Cape Tribulation 125 km (77.7 mi)


Great Bunya Drive[19]
  •   Toowoomba Connection Road
  •   Warrego Highway
  •   Dalby Jandowae Road
  • MacAllister Bell Road
  •   Bunya Highway
  • Bunya Mountains Road
  • Maidenwell Bunya Mountain Road
  • Kingaroy Cooyar Road
  • Nanango Tarong Road
  •     D’Aguilar Highway
  •   Bunya Highway
  •   Wide Bay Highway
  •   Bruce Highway
Toowoomba Dalby, Bunya Mountains, Nanango, Kingaroy, Wondai, Murgon, Goomeri Gympie 324 km (201.3 mi) Length from reference.


Hibiscus Coast Tourist Drive[20]
  •   Bruce Highway
  • Mount Ossa–Seaforth Road
  • Yakapari–Seaforth Road
  • Cape Hillsborough Road
  • Kuttabul–Mount Jukes Road
The Leap (Mackay) Calen
  • Mount Jukes
  • Seaforth
  • Haliday Bay
  • Cape Hillsborough
  • Kuttabul

Mission Beach Drive
  • Tully Mission Beach Road
  • El Arish Mission Beach Road
Tully
  • Mission Beach
El Arish


Northern Moreton Bay Tourist Drive[21]
  •     Anzac Avenue
  • Klinger Road
  • Boardman Road
  • Griffith Road
  • Newport Drive
  • Endeavour Esplanade
  • Oyster Point Esplanade
  • Thurecht Parade
  • Bird O'Passage Parade
  • Reef Point Esplanade
  • Second Avenue (Scarborough)
  • Fortune Street
  •   Fifth Avenue
  •   Landsborough Avenue
  • Kennedy Esplanade
  • Flinders Parade
  • Griffith Road
  • Prince Edward Parade
  • Redcliffe Parade
  • Marine Parade
  • Margate Parade
  • Whytecliffe Parade
  • Gayundah Esplanade
  • Lilla Street
  • Woodcliffe Crescent
  • Oxley Avenue
  •   Hornibrook Esplanade
  •     Houghton Highway
  •   Hornibrook Highway
  •   Beaconsfield Terrace
  • Nineteenth Avenue
  • Flinders Parade
  • Cliff Street
  • Second Avenue (Sandgate)
  • Brighton Road
  • Bowser Parade (northbound only)
  • Seymour Street
  • Eagle Terrace
  • Park Parade
  • Swan Street
  • Shorncliffe Parade
  • Allpass Parade
  • Sinbad Street
  • Palm Avenue
  • Rainbow Street
  •   Board Street
Rothwell Redcliffe Deagon 36 km (22.4 mi) Length from reference.


Pioneer Valley Drive [22][23]
Walkerston (Mackay) Broken River, Eungella National Park Marian, (Eton), (Kuttabul), Kinchant Dam, Mirani, Cattle Creek, Pinnacle, Finch Hatton Gorge, Eungella 122km


Shearer's Way[24]
Stanthorpe Glenlyon Texas Extension of Tourist Drive 8 from Glenlyon Dam to Texas. Signed as  


Southern Moreton Bay Tourist Drive[25]
Wynnum Cleveland Redlands 78 km (48.5 mi) Length from reference.


Warrego Way through Gatton
[26]
  • Eastern Drive
  • Railway Street
  • Western Drive
  • Gatton Helidon Road
Gatton Grantham Helidon Former alignment of the Warrego Highway. Part of it is signed as  

Numbered tourist drives

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Route Component roads and streets From Via To Length Notes
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Tourist Drive 1
Settlers’ Route[27][15][28]
  • Warwick Killarney Road
  • Yangan Killarney Road
  • Warwick Yangan Road
Warwick Killarney Warwick 72 km (44.7 mi) Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 2
Paradise Dam Tourist Drive[29]
  • Goodnight Road
  • Kalliwa Road
Goodnight Paradise Dam 46 km (28.6 mi) Some sections are 4WD Only, Goes through Goodnight National Park

 
Tourist Drive 3
Border Rivers[30]
  • Kildonan Road
  • Yelarbon Keetah Road
Goondiwindi Yelarbon

 
Tourist Drive 3
Cambooya[15]
  •   Toowoomba Athol Road
  • Old Wyreema Road
  • Toowoomba Karara Road
  •   Cambooya Connection Road
  • New England Highway
  • Hodgson Vale Road
  • Sawpit Road
  • Wilsons Road
  • Preston Boundary Road
  • Boundary Road
  • New England Highway
  • Drayton Connection Road
Toowoomba Cambooya Toowoomba Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 3
Green Mountains
  • Kidston Street
  • Lammington National Park Road
Canungra Lammington National Park

 
Tourist Drive 4
Darling Downs[15]
  • Cudmores Road
  • McGovern Road
  • Nunkulla Road
  • Felton Clifton Road
  • Mount Kent Boundary Road
  • Felton Clifton Road
  • Gatton Clifton Road
  • New England Highway
  • Greenmount Hirstvale Road
  • Budgee Road
  • Greenmount Budgee Road
  • Greenmount Clifton Road
  • Greenmount Etonvale Road
  • New England Highway
Cambooya Clifton Cambooya Loop route. Much longer southern extension of Tourist Drive 3 (Cambooya)

 
Tourist Drive 4
Fairbairn Dam
  • Selma Road
  • Fairbairn Dam Road
Emerald Fairbairn Dam Loops back to Emerald via   Gregory Hwy, Central Highlands Tourist Drive 4

 
Tourist Drive 5
Amiens[31]
Stanthorpe Amiens Thulimbah

 
Tourist Drive 6
Bauple Tourist Drive
  • Bauple–Woolooga Road
  • Bauple Drive
A1 Bruce Highway Bauple A1 Bruce Highway 11 km (6.8 mi)

 
Tourist Drive 6
Highland Drive[32][31]
  • Sugarloaf Road
  • Eukey Road
Stanthorpe Eukey Ballandean

 
Tourist Drive 7
Mount Coot–tha[33]
Toowong Mount Coot-tha & Bardon Toowong 7 km (4.3 mi) Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 7
Oracle's Way[34][31]
  • Amosfield Road
  • Mount Lindesay Road
  • Logan Street
  • Naas Street
  • New England Highway
  • Wallangarra Road
Stanthorpe Amosfield, NSW Tenterfield, NSW Loop route. Enter NSW at Dalcouth.

 
Tourist Drive 7
Anakie-Sapphire[15]
  • Anakie Sapphire Road
  • Rubyvale Road
  • Rubyvale Capella Road
Anakie Siding Sapphire Central Capella Central Highlands Tourist Drive 7

 
Tourist Drive 8
Glenlyon Dam[31]
Stanthorpe Glenlyon Mingoola

 
Tourist Drive 8
Tamborine Mountain[35]
  •   Tamborine Oxenford Road
  •   Macdonnell Road
  •   Long Road
  • Lahey Road
  • Main Western Road
  •   Geissmann Drive (part)
  •   Tamborine Mountain Road
  •   Beaudesert Beenleigh Road
  •   Mundoolun Connection Road
  •   Beaudesert–Nerang Road
  •   Mount Nathan Road
Oxenford Mount Tamborine, Canungra Nerang Also signed at the Junction of the Mount Lindsey Hwy and Beaudesert Nerang Road in Beaudesert

 
Tourist Drive 8
Arcadia Valley Loop[36]
  •   Carnaravon Highway
  • Arcadia Valley Road
  • Mulcahys Road
Baffle West Arcadia Valley Loops Route

 
Tourist Drive 8
Mount Nebo[37]
  •   Mount Nebo Road
The Gap Mount Nebo Goes Through Mount Nebo, End at Intersection with Tourist Drive 9

 
Tourist Drive 8
Clermont-Goldfields
  • Clermont-Rubyvale Road
Clermont Rubyvale Central Highlands Tourist Drive 8

 
Tourist Drive 9
Mount Glorious[38]
  •   Samford Road
  • Mount Glorious Road
  •   Mount Glorious Road
  •   Northbrook Parkway
Ferny Hills Mount Glorious Lake Wivenhoe

 
Tourist Drive 10
Capricorn Coast[39]
Berserker Emu Park and Yeppoon Berserker 103 km (64.0 mi) This is a circular route from and to the northern end of the Fitzroy Bridge in Rockhampton. It is also signed as  .

 
Tourist Drive 11
The Sunflower Route[40][15][28]
  • Rosehill Road
  • Warwick Allora Road
  • Alldridge Road
  • East Street
  • Forde Street
  • Allora Drive
  • New England Highway
Warwick Allora Warwick Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 12
Fraser Coast[41]
  • Gympie Road
  • Ferry Street
  • Ann Street
  • Lions Drive
  • Queen Street
  • Neptune Street
  • Alice Street
  • Pallas Street
  • Kent Street
  • Lennox Street
  • Woodstock Street
  • Saltwater Creek Road
  • Maryborough–Hervey Bay Road
  • Booral Road
  • Elizabeth Street
  • Boat Harbour Drive
  • Charlton Esplanade
  • Miller Street
  • Pulgul Street
  • Kent Street
  • King Street
  • Elizabeth Street
  • The Esplanade
  • Martin Street
  • Tooth Street
  • Old Maryborough Road
  • Maryborough–Hervey Bay Road
  • Pialba–Burrum Heads Road
  • Burrum Heads Road
  • Old Bruce Highway
  • Steley Street
  • William Street
Maryborough Hervey Bay Howard From Bruce Highway, Tinana to Bruce Highway, Howard

 
Tourist Drive 12
The Sprint Route[42][15][28]
Warwick Leyburn Warwick Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 14
The Cedar Route[43][15][28]
  • Warwick Yangan Road
  • Kay Road
  • Freestone Road
  • Cunningham Highway
  • Clintonvale Goomburra Road
  • Goomburra Road
  • New England Highway
Warwick Goomburra Warwick Loop route

 
Tourist Drive 14
  • Mulligan Highway
Mareeba Mount Molloy Part of the Great Barrier Reef Tourist Drive

 
Tourist Drive 16
Scenic Rim[37][15]
  • Queen Street
  • Rosewood Marburg Road
  • Waight Street
  • John Street
  • School Street
  • Ipswich Rosewood Road
  • Cunningham Highway
  • Middle Road
  • Peak Crossing Churchbank Weir Road
  •   Ipswich–Boonah Road
  •   Boonah–Rathdowney Road
  • Mount Lindesay Highway
  •   Beaudesert Nerang Road
  •   Beaudesert Beenleigh Road
Marburg Rosewood, Boonah, Rarhdowney, Beaudesert Tamborine Ends at an intersection with Tourist Drive 8. Left to Tamborine village, right to Canungra.
 
Tourist Drive 21
The Falls Drive

[44][45]

  • Acacia Street
  • Border Road
  • Spring Creek Road
Killarney
  • Browns Falls
  • Daggs Falls
  • Queen Mary Falls
  • Carrs Lookout
  • The Head
  • Croftby
Coochin Joins   near Coochin. Onward options:
  • North to Boonah, south to Rathdowney.
  • Loop route: returning on same road
  • Loop route: return via Condamine River Road (may be 4WD only)

 
Tourist Drive 22
Kenilworth

[46] [15]

  • Eumundi Kenilworth Road
  • Maleny Kenilworth Road
  • Macadamia Drive
Eumundi Kenilworth Maleny

 
Tourist Drive 23
Blackall Range[47][48]
  • Landsborough Maleny Road
  • Mountain View Road
  • Maleny Stanley River Road
  • Coral Street
  • Bunya Street
  • Landsborough Maleny Road
  • Maleny Montville Road
  • Balmoral Road
  • Main Street, Montville
  • Montville Mapleton Road
  • Flaxton Drive
  • Nambour Mapleton Road
  • Netherton Street
  • National Park Road
  • Bli Bli Road
Landsborough Maleny Nambour

 
Tourist Drive 24
Glass House Mountains[49][48]
Steve Irwin Way Glenview Landsborough Beerwah Also signed as  . For an extension to this drive that takes in much more of the Glass House Mountains, see here [2]

 
Tourist Drive 25
Tanawha-Forest Glen Tourist Drive
  • Tanawha Tourist Drive
  • Owen Creek Road
Tanawha Forest Glen

 
Tourist Drive 29
Mount Mee[47][48]
Dayboro Mount Mee Woodford Follows   from Dayboro to D'Aguilar then follows   to Woodford

 
Tourist Drive 32
Kerry Valley
  • Brisbane Street
  • Kerry Road
  • Darlington Connection Road
  • Widgee Creek Road
Beaudesert Kerry Hillview

 
Tourist Drive 40
Gympie City[50]
  •   Brisbane Road
  • Red Hill Road
  • Apollonian Vale
  • Caledonian Hill
  • Calton Hill
  • Young Street
  • River Road
  • Monkland Street
  • Mary Street
  • Duke Street
  • Corella Road
  • Fraser Road
Gympie Goes through Central Gympie

 
Tourist Drive 41
Opportunity Drive[15]
  • Gatton Clifton Road
  • Felton Clifton Road
  • Sister Kenny Street
  • Nobby Connection Road
Nobby Clifton Spring Creek Runs Parallel with   through most of the Route

 
Tourist Drive 42
Mary Valley[51][15]
  • Kenilworth–Skyring Creek Road
  • Tuchekoi Road
  • Mary Valley Road
  • Yabba Creek Road
  • Kandanga–Imbil Road
Gympie Imbil Tuchekoi 49 km (30.4 mi)

 
Tourist Drive 43
Cooloola-Fraser Island
  • Tin Can Bay Road
  • Rainbow Beach Road
  • Clarkson Drive
  • Inskip Avenue
  • Inskip Point Road
Tin Can Bay Rainbow Beach Fraser Island   Ferry Crosses to Fraser Island

See also

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References

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