Kamilaroi Highway

Kamilaroi Highway New South Wales
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A small mirage on the Kamilaroi Highway near Cryon.
Location Kamilaroi Hwy.svg
General information
Type	Highway
Length	598 km (372 mi)
Route number(s)	x20px B51 (Willow Tree-Narrabri) No shield (Narrabri-Walgett) x20px B76 (Walgett-Bourke)
Former route number	National Route 37 (unknown-2013) (Willow Tree-Narrabri) No shield (unknown-2013) (Narrabri-Bourke)
Major junctions
NW end	x20px Mitchell Highway (B71) Bourke, New South Wales
	x20px Castlereagh Highway (B55) x20px Newell Highway (A39) x20px Oxley Highway (B56)
SE end	x20px New England Highway (A15) Willow Tree, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlements	Brewarrina, Walgett, Cryon, Burren Junction, Wee Waa, Narrabri, Boggabri, Gunnedah, Curlewis, Breeza, Quirindi, Braefield
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales

The Kamilaroi Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, Australia, running for 620km 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. . It was formerly signed National Route 37, poorly west of Walgett. This route was replaced by the alpha numeric route number B51 between the New England Highway and Newell Highway, before continuing to Walgett unnumbered. Here at its junction with the Castlereagh Highway it becomes the B76, and continues along the formerly largely unsigned part of National Route 37 towards Bourke and the Mitchell Highway. Its status as a highway is fairly new, having only become State Highway 29 in February 1999, the same point in time that it was named the Kamilaroi Highway.

The Kamilaroi Highway crosses the Bogan River 43 kilometres (27 mi) east of Bourke.

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

Route attractions and features

Approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Boggabri is a spectacular landmark called Gin’s Leap, that was known in the days of Cobb and Co as "The Rock". It is said that a young Aboriginal girl, being pursued by white settlers on horseback, jumped to her death rather than be raped and shot like others in her family.

See also

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in New South Wales

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Kamilaroi Highway website - website
• Kamilaroi Highway - Narrabri information website