Plenty Highway
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The Plenty Highway is a Script error: No such module "convert". outback mostly unsealed road in the Northern Territory of Australia between the Stuart Highway and north-western Queensland.[1]
Route description
The road begins at a turnoff from the Stuart Highway Script error: No such module "convert". north of Alice Springs, and finishes at Tobermorey Homestead on the Northern Territory/Queensland border. It then continues for another Script error: No such module "convert". to Boulia in Queensland, as the Donohue Highway.
The first Script error: No such module "convert". from the Stuart Highway is sealed. Of the next Script error: No such module "convert". to Jervois Homestead all bar Script error: No such module "convert". is unsealed as is the rest of the track to the Queensland Border. From the Queensland Border to Boulia the final Script error: No such module "convert". is sealed with another Script error: No such module "convert". east of the border. Information about its condition may be obtained from the Harts Range police station, Script error: No such module "convert". from the Stuart Highway.
East of Jervois Homestead, the road is formed earth, deteriorating to rocks and bulldust as it nears Tobermorey, Script error: No such module "convert". from Jervois Homestead. The road north to Urandangi and thence to Mount Isa bears left just before Tobermorey.
Road condition
The worst sections of the road are in the Northern Territory, with deep potholes and bulldust. On the Queensland side of the border the road has had significant upgrades and is of a hard pack gravel surface. It is Script error: No such module "convert". from Tobermorey to Boulia and good camping may be found at the Georgina River, at about the Script error: No such module "convert". mark.
Fuel and food may be obtained at Gemtree, Atitjere community, Jervois Homestead and Boulia. As of June 2018, fuel and camping is available at Tobermorey. Road trains up to Script error: No such module "convert". in length use both highways.
Upgrades
The Northern Australia Roads Program announced in 2016 included the following project for the Plenty Highway.
Progressive sealing and flood immunity
The project to progressively seal and provide flood immunity improvements was expected to be complete in late 2021 at a total cost of $25 million.[2]
Junctions and localities
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See also
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References
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