[2] Mount Lindesay Highway is a state-controlled road, subdivided into two sections for administrative and funding purposes.

It continues south sign-posted as Mount Lindesay Highway through Jimboomba and Beaudesert, and onwards through the Scenic Rim region through Rathdowney, where the northern end of Lions Road tourist drive begins.

9) on 8 August 1928, running from North Sydney via Hornsby, Peat's Ferry, Gosford, Swansea, Newcastle, Maitland, Singleton, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Woodenbong to the border with Queensland;[7] with the passing of the Main Roads (Amendment) Act of 1929[8] to provide for additional declarations of State Highways and Trunk Roads, this was amended to State Highway 9 on 8 April 1929.

This was renamed New England Highway, through Queensland on 14 February 1933,[9] and a month later through New South Wales on 14 March 1933,[10][11] running from Hexham, Maitland, Singleton, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield, Woodenbong and Beaudesert to Brisbane.

Within New South Wales, Summerland Way was consequently extended north 9.4 km along the alignment of the former highway to meet the Queensland end of the highway at the state border, and the eastern end of Mount Lindesay Road was truncated at the intersection with Summerland Way just east of Woodenbong.