| Road Name: | Cooroy–Gympie Road |
| Road Name2: | Old Bruce Highway |
| State: | qld |
| Type: | road |
| Length: | 29.1 |
| Route: | No shield |
| Direction A: | Southeast |
| End A: | Cooroy Connection Road, and Bruce Highway, |
| Exits: |
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| Direction B: | Northwest |
| End B: | Bruce Highway, |
Cooroy–Gympie Road is a continuous 29.1km (18.1miles) road route in the Noosa and Gympie regions of Queensland, Australia. It is a state-controlled district road (number 914).[1] [2] [3] Known as Old Bruce Highway, It runs from Cooroy Connection Road on the / midpoint to the Bruce Highway in . This road provides access to several localities bypassed by the current alignment of the highway.
Starting at an intersection with Cooroy Connection Road and the Bruce Highway on the Black Mountain / Pomona midpoint, the road initially runs west on the northern side of the highway, between Black Mountain and Pomona, as Old Bruce Highway. In this segment it passes the exit to Black Mountain Range Road to the south via a bridge over the highway, and the exit to Pioneer Road, one of the access roads to the town of Pomona, to the northeast. It then runs between Pomona and, passing the exit to Pomona Connection Road to the northeast.
Continuing generally west and then northwest through Federal the road travels under the Bruce Highway where a northbound exit from the highway joins it. In this segment it passes the exits to several local roads. It next runs through the northeast corner of where it passes the exit to Kenilworth–Skyring Creek Road to the southwest. After running northwest through the road enters the southwest corner of and passes the exit to Coles Creek Road to the northeast, and the exits to several local roads, before reaching an intersection on the boundary. Here it intersects with Mary Valley Link Road and has access to the Bruce Highway and Traveston Road.
From Traveston the road continues generally north through Kybong, passing the exit to Traveston Crossing Road to the southwest. It passes exits to more local roads and Gympie Airport before rejoining the Bruce Highway at a multi-lane intersection.
The northern section of this road was part of the Bruce Highway until November 2017 when Section C of the Cooroy to Curra upgrade (Traveston to) was opened to traffic.[4] The southern section was replaced by a new highway alignment in late 2012.[5] [6]
This road is notable for its high accident rate when it was a highway. An article titled "The old Bruce Highway is a ghost highway drive" in the "Gympie Times" of 1 January 2014 states:
When this road was still part of the Bruce Highway a report into multiple accidents in the locality of Federal was prepared, containing 69 recommendations to address the perceived causes of these accidents. By March 2010 all but 7 of these recommendations had been completed.[7]
All distances are from Google Maps. The road is within the Noosa and Gympie local government areas.