Alpine Way

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States:

New South Wales

The Alpine Way is a main road in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales. It combines the Kosciuszko Road and the Barry Way, Jindabyne Khancoban northwest of the Murray Valley Highway and the Tooma Road.

History

The Alpine Way was built around 1950 as part of the access road to the Snowy Mountains Hydro - system. However, he was ready asphalted until the 1990s.

Course

The road branches off in Jindabyne on the Kosciuszko Road to west -south-west and enters the Kosciuszko National Park, just 15 km one. Along the south shore of the Thredbo River and through the winter Thredbo attracts the ridge of the Great Dividing Range, which they reached at the Dead Horse Gap. After getting over the pass it leads further 10 km to west - south-west to the upper reaches of the Murray River on the border to Victoria at settlement Tom Groggin.

The Alpine Way not crossing the river, but turns sharply to the north and continues through the National Park to Geehi, where he crossed the Swampy Plain River. From Geehi he is on his way up to Khancoban and continue where you turn off to the northwest. About 5 km north-west of the settlement he meets the northeast- coming, ' Tooma Road '' and ends at the eastern end of the Murray Valley Highway (R16 ), near the border with Victoria.

The two lanes maintained road is very curvy and offers fantastic views of the highest mountains in Australia, the most famous ski resorts of the continent and the Murray Canyon.