Road Photos & Information: New South Wales
B72   Snowy Mountains Highway (B72)

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Snowy Mountains Highway is a route that connects the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales with the far south coast via the Great Dividing Range and Snowy Mountains. It's mostly a 2-lane undivided rural highway, passing through farmland, residential and commercial regions. Large tracts of the route pass through national parks and traverse very hilly and steep terrain.

The route links the Princes Hwy (A1), Monaro Hwy (B23) and Hume Hwy (M31). The highest town along the highway is Kiandra, at a height of 1400 metres. 2

Multiplexes along the route include:

History:

1 Roads and Traffic Authority, Schedule of Classified Roads (and unclassified Regional Roads), 20 February 2009
2 Department of Main Roads, Main Roads of New South Wales, undated brochure
3 Roads and Traffic Authority, Construction & Maintenance, Regional Projects, South West, Replacement of Adelong Creek bridges
4 State Library of NSW, Manuscripts, Oral History & Pictures, Bridge construction over Bemboka River at Morans Crossing
5 Canberra Times, Page 3, 21 October 1958
6 Government Gazette of the State of NSW, Issue 99, Page 2645, 9 September 1955
7 The Cumberland Argus, Page 13, 31 July 1957
8 Government Gazette of NSW, Issue 171, Page 4278, 27 December 1957
9 Department of Main Roads, The Roadmakers, A History of Main Roads in New South Wales, ISBN 0 7240 0439 4, page 218
10 Canberra Times, Page 11, 1 September 1964
11 Canberra Times, Page 12, 15 February 1965
12 Canberra Times, Page 26, 18 February 1965
13 Canberra Times, Page 20, 7 July 1966
14 Canberra Times, Page 10, 8 February 1967
15 Canberra Times, Page 3, 20 February 1968
16 Canberra times, Page 3, 23 December 1967
17 Canberra Times, Page 6, 27 December 1971
18 Canberra Times, Page 3, 20 April 1980
19 Sam Laybut (OzRoads)
20 Roads & Traffic Authority, Road activity update - Southern NSW, May 2003

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