Snowy Mountains Highway

Snowy Mountains Highway New South Wales
Snowy Mountains Highway highlighted in green
General information
Type	Highway
Length	287 km (178 mi)[1] 333 km (207 mi) including intervening roadway.[1]
Gazetted	August 1928 (as Main Road 4)[2]
Route number(s)	B72 (2013–present)
Former route number	National Route 18 (1955–2013)
Major junctions
Eastern section
East end	Princes Highway Stony Creek, New South Wales
	Mogilla Road
West end	Monaro Highway Steeple Flat, New South Wales
Western section
East end	Monaro Highway Cooma, New South Wales
	Kosciuszko Road Wee Jasper Road Gocup Road
West end	Hume Highway Mount Adrah, New South Wales
Location(s)
Major settlements	Adelong, Tumut Adaminaby, Cooma
Restrictions
General	Within Kosciuszko National Park, it is recommended that two-wheel drive vehicles carry snow chains during winter.[3]
Highway system
Highways in Australia National Highway • Freeways in Australia Highways in New South Wales
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Snowy Mountains Highway is a 333-kilometre-long (207 mi)^[1] state highway located in New South Wales, Australia. Its two sections connect the New South Wales South Coast to the Monaro region, and the Monaro to the South West Slopes via the Snowy Mountains. The higher altitude regions of this road are subject to snow over the winter months, and the road also provides access to many parts of the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The highway bears the B72 shield along its entire length.

The highway originally bore the name Monaro Highway until 1955, when it received its current name. It originally ran from Tathra to Wagga Wagga but has been shortened to run from Princes Highway to Hume Highway instead. Reservoirs created as a result of dams built in the 1950s and 1960s as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme required the creation of major realignments to avoid submerged areas. Previous to New South Wales' conversion to alphanumeric route markers, it was signed as National Route 18.