Huon Highway

Highway in Tasmania, Australia

Huon Highway Tasmania

The Huon Highway at Sandfly

General information
Type	Highway
Length	116 km (72 mi)
Route number(s)	A6 Kingston — Southport
Former route number	State Route 1^[1]
Major junctions
North end	Southern Outlet Kingston, Tasmania
	Sandfly Road Channel Highway
South end	Kingfish Beach Road Lady Bay Road Southport, Tasmania
Location(s)
Major settlements	Sandfly, Grove, Huonville, Franklin, Port Huon, Geeveston, Dover
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in Tasmania

The Huon Highway is an 87-kilometre (54 mi)^[2] highway in southern Tasmania, Australia. The highway forms part of the A6 and connects Hobart with the southern parts of Tasmania. The original Huon Highway (now known as Huon Road) was a twisty two-lane road skirting around Mount Wellington, but that section of the highway was bypassed in stages when the Southern Outlet was completed in 1968.^[2] This provided a more direct, and higher traffic-capacity, route between Hobart and the Huon Valley. A few sections of the old highway remain, all within the Huon Valley, and have been upgraded.

References

^ Former State Route Numbering System in Tasmania, Ozroads: the Australian Roads Website.
^ ^a ^b "Road Photos & Information: Tasmania". Expressway - The Australian Highway Site. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2008.^{[self-published source]}