Barry Way

Barry Way New South Wales
The start of the Barry Way, near Jindabyne, NSW.
General information
Type	Track
Length	71.6 km (44 mi)
Major junctions
North end	Alpine Way Jindabyne, New South Wales
South end	Snowy River Road (C608) New South Wales / Victoria border within Kosciuszko National Park
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The Barry Way is a partly unsealed alpine road running from Jindabyne southwest to the Victorian border, where it becomes the Snowy River Road. It eventually leads to Buchan, a total distance of 170 kilometres with no services or towns. It is sealed for the first 27 kilometres from Jindabyne, becoming unsealed at Ingebirah Gap, remaining so as far as the Victorian border. The road passes through some very remote and unspoilt wilderness in the Australian Alps. The scenery along the road provides views of the Snowy River valley and the surrounding mountains. There are a number of campsites along the road, from Jacobs River southwards. During the summer months, the weather on the Barry Way can be extremely hot and the sun's rays powerful whilst in winter the road can be closed for considerable amounts of time due to heavy snowfalls and dangerous ice. At the NSW/VIC border, the Barry Way becomes known as Snowy River Road and continues southward into the Gippsland region of Victoria.

The road is named after Leo Barry, president of the Snowy River Shire Council in the 1950s, who pushed for the creation of the road.

Construction of the Victorian portion of the road began as early as 1925 when a bridge was built over the Buchan River at Buchan. In the 1930s with the use of unemployed labourers, improvements were made to the Buchan -Gelantipy portion of the road. Work had progressed as far as the construction of the bridge over the Suggan Buggan River at Suggan Buggan when the start of the Second World War stopped work in 1939. All of the work completed up to this point in time was done using picks and shovels, with bullock teams employed to cart away the fill. All the stonework for the culverts, pipes and embankments was constructed by hand using stone recovered during the road making process. It was not until 1960 that the Tambo and Snowy River shires managed to secure funding to complete what was described as a jeep track (that would later be upgraded) connecting the Victorian and NSW sections built before the war. A Mr L. Livingstone was contracted to undertake the Victorian portion from Suggan Buggan to Willis on the Victorian-NSW border. The job took 26 weeks to complete with the Victorians reaching the border shortly before the New South Wales construction crew. The road was opened in May 1961 by Leo Barry (Snowy River Shire) and Keith Rogers (Tambo Shire), with some 400 people in attendance. Avalanche Lookout was constructed in these works.^[1]

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  View from the Barry Way.

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  The Barry Way snakes its way through the Australian Alps.

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  The Barry Way.

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  Wallace Craigie Lookout, along the Barry Way, looking south.

See also

• Highways in Australia
• Highways in New South Wales

References

Coordinates: 36°29′S 148°34′E / 36.483°S 148.567°E / -36.483; 148.567

Road infrastructure in regional New South Wales
Motorways	Hume Motorway Hunter Expressway Pacific Motorway (Brisbane–Brunswick Heads) Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle) Princes Motorway
National highways	Barton Highway Federal Highway Hume Highway New England Highway Newell Highway Sturt Highway
Highways	Barrier Highway Bruxner Highway Carnarvon Highway Castlereagh Highway Cobb Highway Great Western Highway Gwydir Highway Illawarra Highway Kamilaroi Highway Kings Highway Mid-Western Highway Mitchell Highway Monaro Highway Murray Valley Highway Olympic Highway Oxley Highway Pacific Highway Princes Highway Riverina Highway Silver City Highway Snowy Mountains Highway
Local highways	Alpine Way Appin Road Barry Way Bathurst-Ilford Road Bells Line of Road Bucketts Way Burley Griffin Way Bylong Valley Way Camden Valley Way Castlereagh Highway Central Coast Highway Escort Way Fossickers Way Golden Highway Goldfields Way Goulburn-Oberon Road Henry Lawson Way Irrigation Way Kidman Way Lachlan Valley Way Memorial Drive Newcastle Inner City Bypass Newcastle Link Road O'Connell Road Old Hume Highway Picton Road Princes Highway Putty Road Remembrance Drive Summerland Way Thunderbolts Way Waterfall Way Wombeyan Caves Road Yass Valley Way
Bridges	Denison Bridge Grafton Bridge Harwood Bridge Hampden Bridge Macleay River Bridge Martin Bridge Mooney Mooney Bridge Nowra Bridge Sea Cliff Bridge Tea Gardens-Hawks Nest Bridge
Tunnels	Cudgen Road Tunnel St Helena Tunnel
Proposals	Sydney Bypass

Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia
Townships and Villages	Adaminaby Berridale Bombala Bredbo Cooma Delegate Thredbo Village Tyrolean
Localities and rural places	Anglers Reach Arable Avonside Beloka Blue Cow Mountain Bobundara Braemar Bay Buckenderra Bullocks Flat Charlotte Pass Coolringdon Cootralantra Crackenback Dalgety Dry Plain East Jindabyne Eucumbene Cove Frying Pan Grosses Plain Guthega Hill Top Ingebirah Ironmungy Jimenbuen Jindabyne Kalkite Michelago Middlingbank Moonbah Myalla Nimmitabel Nimmo Numbla Vale Old Adaminaby Paupong Perisher Valley Pine Valley Providence Portal Rhine Falls Rocky Plain Shannons Flat Smiggin Holes Snowy Plain The Brothers Wambrook
National parks and other natural features	Kosciuszko NP Valentine Falls
Rivers and other watercourses	Berrima Burrungubugge Cooma Back Eucumbene Goorudee Gungarlin Ingeegoodbee Jacobs Little Thredbo Mowamba Pinch Snowy River Thredbo
Dams and/or associated reservoirs	Eucumbene Guthega Island Bend Jindabyne Jounama Rainbow Lake Three Mile
Mountain ranges	Snowy Mountains Charcoal Rams Head Suggan Buggan
Attractions	Alpine Way Barry Way Big Trout Blue Lake Friday Flat Camp Kiandra Lake Albina Lake Cootapatamba Mount Kosciuszko Mount Townsend Perisher Ski Resort Selwyn Snowfields Skitube Alpine Railway Smiggin Holes Snowy Mountains Highway Snowy Scheme Museum
Main Article: Local government areas of New South Wales

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