The Golden Highway is a highway in New South Wales, Australia.
Designated as State Highway 84, it runs eastwards from Dubbo towards Newcastle on the coast and enables road transport to avoid travelling over the Blue Mountains to Sydney.
The Golden Highway runs through Dunedoo, Merriwa, Sandy Hollow, Denman, Jerrys Plains and Mount Thorley, joining the New England Highway at Belford, south of Singleton.
The Bylong Valley Way turns off the Golden Highway 1 km east of Sandy Hollow.
The Golden Highway uses around 2 km of The Putty Road east of the Mount Thorley industrial estate near Singleton, then turns east onto Mitchell's Line of Road while the Putty Road continues to Singleton.
The Golden Highway - Easy Driving for Caravans - East to West; West to East. The Golden Highway provides a fairly low crossing of the Great Dividing Range. Also taking you through the Hunter Region (the glorious Upper Hunter Country) and to the golden west New South Wales.
Famous quotes containing the words golden and/or highway:
“Nor envy’s snaky eye, finds harbour here,
Nor flatterers’ venomous insinuations,
Nor cunning humorists’ puddled opinions,
Nor courteous ruin of proffered usury,
Nor time prattled away, cradle of ignorance,
Nor causeless duty, nor comber of arrogance,
Nor trifling title of vanity dazzleth us,
Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)