Capricorn Highway

Capricorn Highway Queensland
General information
Type	Highway
Length	575 km (357 mi)
Route number(s)	A4 (Entire Route) Duplexes: A7 (Emerald - Emerald East)
Former route number	National Route 66
Major junctions
West end	Landsborough Highway, Barcaldine, Queensland
	Gregory Highway Leichhardt Highway
East end	Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, Queensland
Location(s)
Major settlements	Jericho, Alpha, Emerald, Blackwater, Gogango, Westwood
Highway system
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The Capricorn Highway is located in Central Queensland, Australia, and links the city of Rockhampton with western Queensland.^[1] The highway is 575 kilometres long, and joins the Landsborough Highway at Barcaldine.^[2] Formerly National Route 66, Queensland began to convert to the alphanumeric system much of Australia had adopted in the early-2000s and is now designated as A4. The highway runs parallel with the Tropic of Capricorn, hence its name.

Other towns situated along the highway include (from east to west): Gracemere, Kabra, Gogango, Westwood, Duaringa, Dingo, Blackwater, Emerald, Bogantungan, Alpha and Jericho.

Running virtually east/west, the highway traverses the area known as the Central Highlands, and crosses the Great Dividing Range between Alpha and Jericho.

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  Capricorn Highway (green on black)

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Barcaldine	Barcaldine	0	0.0	Landsborough Highway (National Route A2) west - Longreach / south - Blackall	Western end of Capricorn Highway
Central Highlands	Emerald	309	192	Gregory Highway (State Route A7) north - Clermont	Western concurrency terminus with Gregory Highway
		311	193	Gregory Highway (State Route A7) south - Springsure	Eastern concurrency terminus with Gregory Highway
	Dingo	432	268	Fitzroy Developmental Road (State Route 67) north - Middlemount
Rockhampton	Westwood	522.9	324.9	Leichhardt Highway (State Route A5) south - Banana and Biloela
	Rockhampton	574.6	357.0	Bruce Highway (National Route A1) north - Rockhampton / south - Mount Larcom	Eastern end of Capricorn Highway. Intersection is approximately 4.1 km from Rockhampton CBD
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus

See also

Australian Roads portal

• Highways in Australia
• List of highways in Queensland

References

1. Queensland Government - Department of Transport and Main Roads - Maps
2. Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.