Cobb Highway

The Cobb Highway is a State highway in western New South Wales, Australia. From north to south the Cobb Highway begins at its junction with the Barrier Highway near Wilcannia and runs south through the townships of Ivanhoe, Booligal, Hay and Deniliquin. It ends at Moama where the highway crosses the New South Wales/Victoria border at the Murray River and continues south through Victoria as the Northern Highway.

The Cobb Highway was named after Cobb and Co, a company which ran a network of stagecoaches in inland Australia in the latter half of the 19th century and early in the 20th century. The highway follows an old coach route through the Riverina, connecting the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Rivers, and across the intervening plains to the Darling River at Wilcannia. The Cobb Highway is sealed as far north as 10 km north of Ivanhoe. It is one of the most remote and could be one of the least-used of the highways of New South Wales.

The highway travels through diverse changes in scenery, from the Murray River, enclosed farming land in the Riverina, to open grazing land and semi-desert towards the middle and northern sections. The speed limit is posted at 100 km/h except from three sections where the limit is 110 km/h, being: 40 km north of Deniliquin until Hay, Hay until a few kilometres north of Booligal and the final 110 km/h zone being from just south of Mossgiel to Ivanhoe.