Kuranda Range road

The Kuranda Range road is an informally named section of the Kennedy Highway in Queensland, Australia.

This was partly as a result of public demand for better access to the Atherton Tableland, but also due to strategic wartime use.

Whereas the previous Smithfield Track went relatively straight up the spur from Avondale Creek, passing by the present location of Henry Ross Lookout, and emerged at Mountain Grove, the new road took a far more circuitous route.

Although most workers had to walk up and down the range each day to their work area, temporary blacksmith's shops were set up on site to sharpen jackhammer bits.

On completion, the gravel road was predominantly a dual carriageway, however there were parts that were of one-way standard due to their roughness.