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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.
In Maryborough the drive includes many local attractions away from the through route on both sides of the road. At the Walligan / Sunshine Acres midpoint it turns into Booral Road and follows it to Urangan. To avoid additional complexity the tourist drive is not shown in the major intersections table.
Tourist drives in Queensland include numbered and un-numbered routes. Most routes have an official name, but some have been named 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.
The Savannah Way is a route of highways and major roads across the tropical savannahs of northern Australia, linking Cairns in Queensland with Broome in Western Australia. Promoted as a self-drive tourist route, it joins Cairns, Normanton, Borroloola, Katherine, Kununurra, Fitzroy Crossing, Derby and Broome. [1]
The roadside rest areas, constructed by the Main Roads Commission (MRC) from the early 1950s on the old Bruce Highway and on roads feeding onto the highway (at Petrie; Jowarra, Landsborough; Paynter's Creek, Woombye) represent a pattern of development of the tourist industry in Queensland intrinsically linked to the rise of motor transport Australia-wide in the second half of the 20th century.
State Strategic Touring Routes (SSTR) 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.
The Capricorn Way is an Australian road route from Rockhampton to Barcaldine in Queensland. Using the Capricorn Way, it is 579.67 km (360.19 mi) from Rockhampton to Barcaldine. The recommended journey time, allowing for some sightseeing, food and rest (including an overnight stop) is 30 hours. [1]
The Rainforest Way is a circular series of tourist drives that extends through South East Queensland, Australia across the border into the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. [1] It follows roughly the caldera of the extinct Tweed Volcano in the north east corner of NSW, whose volcanic plug is Mount Warning.