A short cut to get up to the beautiful Tablelands but also has about 200 odd corners. Within a distance of 19km you climb up over 1000m. The Gillies Highway certainly is an amazing feat of engineering but I wish they could have ironed out a few of those corners. When it was first built it was one way and operated with boom gates at the top and bottom. In the Mountain View Hotel right at the bottom they still have times up on the wall when you could travel up and when you could come down. It is a mecca for motorbike riders and placed high on the ‘to do’ list of roads in Australia. The road hugs the volcanic rock cliffs as it starts another bend through the rainforest at the bottom to the gum trees at the top. Not a road to travel if you get motion sickness although if you ‘tablet up’ you’ll have no problems and it is worth the view.
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