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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.
Mission Beach developed into a town during the 1940s and 50s with the Mission Beach Post Office opening on 15 December 1949. [25] Mission Beach State School opened on 27 January 1953 in the "tropical jungle" of Mission Beach. On 1 February 1993, the school re-opened at a new site in Wongaling Beach to the south. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Major attractions around and in Cairns include Cairns Aquarium, Cairns Botanic Gardens, The Reef Hotel Casino, Kuranda Scenic Railway, Barron Falls and the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway. Towns and localities attracting large numbers of tourists include Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, Mission Beach and Cardwell.
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 ]
Sheridan Street – south–east – Cairns CBD / Florence Street – north–east – Cairns waterfront: Southern end of Captain Cook Highway (National Route 1) Continues north–west as Sheridan Street. Barron River: 6.9: 4.3: William Walter Mason Bridges: Cairns: Smithfield: 12.1: 7.5: Cairns Western Arterial Road (State Route 91) – south ...
Mareeba–Dimbulah Road is a state-controlled regional road (number 664). [2] [3] It starts at an intersection with Mulligan Highway (State Route 81) in Mareeba.It runs south-west as State Route 27, for 44.5 kilometres (27.7 mi) to Dimbulah, where it transitions to Burke Developmental Road.
The Kennedy Highway is a highway in northern Queensland, Australia.It runs as National Route 1 for approximately 243 km from Smithfield, on the northern outskirts of Cairns, to the Gulf Developmental Road in the vicinity of Forty Mile Scrub and Undara Volcanic national parks (at Minnamoolka, about 40 kilometres south of Mount Garnet). [1]
The airport has a single runway (15/33) which is 3,156 m (10,354 ft) long. The flight path to the north of the main runway is located directly overhead Cairns' northern beach suburbs. The flight path to the south is located directly over central Cairns.