Crossing Great Diving Range towing caravan

If you want to go up the range all roads are much of a muchness but none of them are bad enough to stop a correctly set up rig.
Is there a particular reason why you want to travel the Golden Highway or indeed why you want to go inland to get to Hervey Bay? If you don't like hills just go up the coast road.

We used to really worry about that sort of thing back when cars weren't as powerful and roads were terrible. Now it's a bit of a non event. The Sturt from Adelaide, the Hume to Sydney and the coast road north really have nothing that will bother most rigs except the traffic around the north side of Sydney. Modern cars and roads have made the Great Dividing Range less great and less of a divide I reckon. Go up one way, come back another and have a great time doing it. Cheers.

If you want a pretty flat run just go up the Newell and jump of at brocklehurst and up through Mendooran and home out before Coonabarabran which gets rid of some hilly stuff and b doubles, then up through Gundi, Warwick and down Cunninghams gap, pretty easy down the gap if you go steady, you will probably be following trucks anyway and they will be going down steady, steady. You can then turn off after Willowbank on the Haigslea/Amberley Rd then turn right on the Karrabin/Rosewood road and left on the Wulkuraka Connection Rd which will take you across the A2 and go up through esk, Kilcoy, caboolture and onto the M1 which will bypass Brisbane.

That or up through Gundi, Toowoomba to Ban Ban springs then right to Biggenden and on to Harvey bay.

Some of the roads further west are a bit rock and roll due to the black soil. Even the Liechardt Hwy north of Moonie can make you a bit sea sick.

Hi Andie,

The golden Hwy is through the hunter valley with rolling plains, and takes you to the Pacific Hwy. I would go to Singleton and up the New England Hwy as it is a lot easier, and come in through Warwick... The pacific Hwy is still being upgraded and a lot of trucks....

Cheers Andy

Andie.
Good road from Goondiwindi to Hervey Bay.
At Millmerran head North to Cecil Plains, Dalby, Kumbia, Kingaroy, and turn left to Woolooga about 22 ks' after Kilkivan.
This brings you to The Bruce Highway near Bauple then on to
Maryborough.
Reasonably good road all the way. That is the way I would go.
Overnight stops all through here.
Have a look on Google Earth to plot you journey.
Have Fun Haji-Baba.

Correction, 16.5 ks' Kilkivan to Woolooga turnoff.