Mulligan Highway

Mareeba–Dimbulah Road
Mareeba–Dimbulah Road
Location	Mulligan Highway, Mareeba to Burke Developmental Road, Dimbulah
Length	44.5 km (27.7 mi)
Route number	27

Mulligan Highway

Formerly Cooktown Developmental Road

Queensland
Mulligan Highway; Formerly Cooktown Developmental Road; Queensland
	Mulligan Highway (green on black)
General information
Type	Highway
Length	266 km (165 mi)
Route number(s)	State Route 81 (Mareeba to Lakeland); State Route 40 (Lakeland to Cooktown)
Major junctions
South end	Kennedy Highway, (National Highway 1) Mareeba, Queensland
	Mareeba–Dimbulah Road (State Route 27) ; Mossman–Mount Molloy Road (State Route 44) ; Peninsula Developmental Road (State Route 81)
North end	Charlotte Street, Cooktown, Queensland
Location(s)
Major settlements	Mount Molloy, Lakeland
Highway system
	Highways in Australia; National Highway • Freeways in Australia; Highways in Queensland; ; ;

The Mulligan Highway is a state highway in Queensland, Australia. It runs for approximately 266 km between Mareeba and Cooktown, on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula where it terminates. It is signed as State Route 81 from Mareeba to Lakeland and State Route 40 from Lakeland to Cooktown.^[1] It is a state-controlled regional road (numbers 34A, 34B and 34C).^[2]^[3]

Named after bushman James Venture Mulligan the sealed highway follows the old Cooktown Developmental Road and was completed in 2006. Since it was sealed, travelling time from Cairns to Cooktown has reduced from 6 to 3½ hours.

List of towns along the highway

Linked state-controlled roads

In addition to the Peninsula Developmental Road, the following state-controlled roads are linked to this road:

Mareeba–Dimbulah Road
Mossman–Mount Molloy Road

Mareeba–Dimbulah Road

Mareeba–Dimbulah Road is a state-controlled regional road (number 664).^[2]^[3] It starts at an intersection with Mulligan Highway (State Route 81) in Mareeba. It runs south-west as State Route 27, for 44.5 kilometres (27.7 mi) to Dimbulah, where it transitions to Burke Developmental Road. The road has no major intersections .^[4]

Major intersections

LGA	Location	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Mareeba	Mareeba	0	0.0	Kennedy Highway (National Route 1) – south – Atherton / east – Kuranda	Southern end of Mulligan Highway (State Route 81)
	Mareeba	3.3	2.1	Mareeba Dimbulah Road (State Route 27) – south–west – Dimbulah
	Mount Molloy	43.5	27.0	Mossman Mount Molloy Road (State Route 44) – north – Mossman
Cook	Lakeland	187	116	Peninsula Developmental Road (State Route 81) – north–west – Laura	State Route 81 continues north-west as Peninsula Developmental Road. Mulligan Highway continues north-east as State Route 40.
Cook	Cooktown	266	165	Charlotte Street – north – Cooktown CBD	Northern end of Mulligan Highway
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Route transition

References

^ Hema, Maps (2007). Australia Road and 4WD Atlas (Map). Eight Mile Plains Queensland: Hema Maps. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-1-86500-456-3.
^ ^a ^b "North Queensland Region map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Far North District map" (PDF). Department of Transport and Main Roads ©State of Queensland [CC BY 4.0]. 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
^ "Mareeba to Dimbulah" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 18 July 2023.