Riverina Highway

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New South Wales

The Riverina Highway is a highway in the south of the Australian state of New South Wales. It combines the Talgarno Road and the Bethanga Road in Bell Bridge with the Cobb Highway in Deniliquin.

Course

The road begins in Bell Bridge, about 12 km east of Albury on the eastern shore of Lake Hume, on the border between Victoria and New South Wales. By Albury, where it crosses the Hume Freeway ( NM31 ), it follows the Murray River at its northern shore to West North West to Corowa. She crosses the Riverina, after which it is named.

In the Corowa road turns north-northwest for about 10 km and proposes again a west- northwesterly course a. In Finley she crosses the Newell Highway ( N39 ), and now follows the Mulwala Canal, an irrigation channel of the Riverina. 60 km to the west reached the Riverina Highway to Cobb Highway ( R75 ) in Deniliquin, where it ends.

Character and significance

The highway passes through irrigated land along the Murray River, where farms, orchards and vineyards dominate the picture of the landscape. He links this area via the Hume Highway to Albury to the major markets in Sydney and Melbourne. Because of the remarkable landscape of the Riverina Highway is also a popular tourist street.