Lions Road

Lions Road is a picturesque section of the road that connects Summerland Way in New South Wales to the Mount Lindesay Highway near Rathdowney, Queensland at Running Creek.

The road runs through the Border Ranges National Park and offers a scenic journey that showcases the natural beauty of the region.

The road was named after the Kyogle branch of the Lions Club which raised most of the funding, organized planning and provided voluntary labor for its construction. Jack Hurley, a Kyogle resident, was a prominent advocate of the road. Despite being rejected by the NSW government in 1969, the road was opened in the following year, connecting two rural roads: Gradys Creek Road in New South Wales and Running Creek Road in Queensland.

For a significant part of its length, Lions Road is a narrow one-laned road that cannot be used by trucks or cars towing caravans or trailers. The road is fully sealed with bitumen, but the original alignments are largely unaltered, leading to possible surprises for inexperienced drivers who allow themselves to build up excessive speed, especially on steep mountainous stretches. The road passes through the Richmond Gap in the McPherson Range and runs parallel to the main Brisbane-Sydney railway line. It passes adjacent to a small section of the Mount Chinghee National Park.

The NSW side of the road has several bridges over small creeks, and most of them were replaced by concrete bridges in 2017-18 as part of a major upgrade program by Kyogle Council. All bridges on the Queensland side are concrete, with several of them being one-laned bridges where vehicles travelling upstream must give way before entering the bridge. Only two timber bridges on the NSW side remain, but they will also be