State Highway 97 (New Zealand)

State Highway 97 (SH 97) is a New Zealand State Highway connecting the settlements of Five Rivers (on SH 6) and Mossburn (on SH 94) in the Southland region. The highway was gazetted in 2004 to reflect the increasing amount of traffic between the tourist destinations of Queenstown and Fiordland National Park and provides a bypass of the town of Lumsden, where SH 6 and 94 intersect.[1]

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State Highway 97
Route information
Maintained by NZ Transport Agency
Length19.7 km (12.2 mi)
Tourist
routes		Southern Scenic Route
Major junctions
East end SH 6 (Athol Five Rivers Highway/Five Rivers Lumsden Highway) at Five Rivers
West end SH 94 (Devon Street) at Mossburn
Location
CountryNew Zealand
Highway system
← SH 96→ SH 98

In 2010, the highway was added to the Southern Scenic Route when it was extended from Te Anau to Queenstown. The road proceeds generally in an east–west direction through dairying farmland and crosses the Ōreti River just north of Mossburn.

See also

References
  1. "Revoking Sections of State Highway and Declaring New Sections of State Highway". NZ Gazette. 11 December 2003. Retrieved 14 May 2016.


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