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Spicers Gap is a mountain pass that is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and was the original route over the Great Dividing Range in the area around Brisbane. Today it is included in Main Range National Park and is a popular destination for campers and bushwalkers.
Although unofficial, the name persists in the road name, [4] St Anne's Hidden Vale (Anglican church), [5] Spicers Hidden Vale (a rural resort), [6] and the Hidden Vale Wildlife Centre (jointly operated by the resort and the University of Queensland). [7] The terrain varies from 70 to 347 metres (230 to 1,138 ft) above sea level.
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Spicers Gap Road is a heritage-listed road at Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park (in the Main Range National Park), Tregony, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1859 to 1865. It is also known as Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park and Spicers Peak Road. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 July 1999. [1]
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Brisbane River: 18.3: 11.4: Geoff Fisher Bridge. This bridge spans the boundary between the localities of Fernvale and Wivenhoe Pocket: Somerset: Wivenhoe Pocket: 20.1: 12.5: Wivenhoe–Somerset Road – north–east – Mount Glorious, Somerset Dam (via Splityard Creek Dam) To Brisbane Forest Park via Northbrook Parkway: Brisbane River: 22.5 ...
Spicers Gap Road required extensive expenditure on maintenance and with the 1871 opening of the Southern railway line from Warwick (the major town on the Darling Downs) to Toowoomba and then by the Main Line railway to Brisbane, Spicers Gap Road was virtually abandoned as rail transport was superior to drays. [4] Allan Cunningham memorial ...
The highway is named in honour of the explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who followed a route close to where the modern-day highway runs. In 1828 after discovering the route Cunningham sent a report to Governor Ralph Darling emphasising the economic benefits that a link between the coast and pastoral lands of the Darling Downs would provide. [8]