Tin Can Bay Road
Tin Can Bay Road is a continuous road route in the Gympie region of Queensland, Australia. Part of it is signed as State Route 15. It is a state-controlled road, part regional and part district, with the district section rated as a local road of regional significance. It runs from the Bruce Highway in to the Esplanade in. It intersects with Gympie Connection Road in, Kin Kin Road in, Maryborough–Cooloola Road in, and Rainbow Beach Road in Wallu.
Route description
The road starts at an intersection with the Bruce Highway in Monkland. It runs northwest as Brisbane Road before entering, turning north at an intersection with Red Hill Road and changing to Crescent Road. At an intersection with Cootharaba Road it turns northeast and enters Victory Heights where it soon becomes Tin Can Bay Road. As it leaves Victory Heights at a tripoint with and it passes the exit to Gympie Connection Road to the northwest. The road soon enters Canina where it first passes the exit to Cedar Pocket Road to the southeast, and then the exit to Kin Kin Road to the east. It then turns north, ceasing to carry the State Route 15 shield.Turning northeast it runs through to where it again turns north and passes the exit to Tagigan Road to the southeast. As it enters lt turns northeast, passing through Toolara State Forest to Wallu. Here it passes the exit to Maryborough–Cooloola Road to the northwest before entering Tin Can Bay, where it passes the exit to Rainbow Beach Road to the southeast. The road continues northeast to the Esplanade in Tin Can Bay, where it ends.
Gympie Bypass
The Gympie Bypass, under construction in 2023, will become the Bruce Highway when completed. It will cross over Tin Can Bay Road in Victory Heights with no interchange. An interchange with Gympie Connection Road to the north will become the most direct route from the Bruce Highway to Tin Can Bay Road outbound.History
European settlement began at Tin Can Bay in the 1870s as the point where logs would be floated to the timber mills at Maryborough. Tin Can Bay later became, and still remains, an important fishing port, with a focus on prawns as well as recreational fishing., just to the southeast of Tin Can Bay Road, was the site of the Tagigan pastoral run. In 1877, of land were resumed from Tagigan. The land was offered for selection for the establishment of small farms on 17 April 1877.
Intersecting state-controlled roads
This road intersects with the following state-controlled roads:- Gympie Connection Road
- Kin Kin Road
- Maryborough–Cooloola Road
- Rainbow Beach Road
Gympie Connection Road
Kin Kin Road
Kin Kin Road is a state-controlled district road rated as a local road of regional significance. It runs from Tin Can Bay Road in to Cooroy Connection Road in, via, a distance of. This road intersects with Boreen Road and Pomona Connection Road in.A project to widen and upgrade sections of Kin Kin Road, at a cost of $19 million, was in the construction stage in August 2023. An engineering review of other sections of the road was conducted in 2022.
Rainbow Beach Road
Rainbow Beach Road is a state-controlled district road rated as a local road of regional significance. It runs from Tin Can Bay Road in to Kirchner Street in, a distance of. This road has no major intersections.Associated state-controlled roads
The following state-controlled roads are associated with the intersecting roads described above:- Intersecting with Kin Kin Road:
- * Boreen Road
- * Pomona Connection Road
- Intersecting with Boreen Road:
- * Boreen Point–Tewantin Road
Boreen Road