Which Road To Take?

Ring one of the Post Offices and ask them to ask the mail delivery contractors what they like. They the people who use them the most.
Cheers Bruce.

Hi Pete - The RACQ has a trip planner on line - free - with some local info.
Go to : Site Link

From my map, this is a good bitumen road, however RACQ note that this route passes through a known flood location. The road follows the Maranoa river, with dozens of tributaries feeding in from the north, in the Chesterton ranges.

The west has had some good rains lately, even Innaminca has had 3" in the last week, so without actually traveling the road, it may be difficult to know if it is flooded. Perhaps try the Roads Dept of both councils......Keith

Pete,

I just rang my Old Man, (he lives in St George)

Over the last few years the road from St George to Mitchell has had a lot of work done to it and is now his preferred choice to get to Mitchell.

He reckons that it will need monsoonal rains to flood it now as the river and tributaries are that dry.

The turn off for the road is 5km from the Jack Taylor weir on the Balonne highway to Bollon. It is the second right actually. The first goes to the Golf course and eventually gets to the Mitchell highway (you need to take the left hand road at the Y intersection about 400m past golf course main gate).

Be on the look out for wildlife as with the little rain they have had has bought the animals to the roadside for the feed.

Hope this helps

Kev

I have escorted Loads via St George to Mitchell when the Amby Bridge was being widened. head west from St George about 5.3 klm and turn right , when you get to the intersection of the Balonne Hwy and the Carnarvon Hwy in the middle of town you turn left, zero the trip meter and do 5.3klm and turn right onto Mitchell / St George Rd , it is sealed all the way,

Pete
Towed the coromal up that road last July, all bitumen, sometimes bumpy, lots of road kill and live hoppies as well. no real problems but dont know about flooding. We did see some bustards as well, which made the trip for us.

cheers

The RACQ website has some really detailed notes re road conditions which seem to be updated regularly. Give it a try.