Department of Transport and Main Roads

Transport and Main Roads
Road Status Update for North West *
as at 7:45pm 15 January 2026

*Disclaimer: Road conditions may change rapidly. Please visit https://qldtraffic.qld.gov.au or call 13 19 40 to plan your trip with the most updated road information.

New events are defined as any event entered since 8am the previous day.

Report data

Road Location Chainage Extra details Status Closure/Restriction Reason Last Update District Id
Barkly Highway / Camooweal Urandangi Road / Camooweal Urandangi Road Barkly / Camooweal (Mount Isa City) / Piturie (Boulia Shire) Camooweal Town to Mount Isa LGA Boundary Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 09:56 AM Central West / North West 772408
Bell Street / Kajabbi Mount Isa Road / Kajabbi Mount Isa Road / Kajabbi Mount Isa Road / Gereta Rockyglen Road Mount Isa / Three Rivers (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 11:44 AM North West 769818
Burke Developmental Road Four Ways (Cloncurry Shire) / Normanton (Carpentaria Shire) 89A, 181.00 to 371.00 Four Ways to Normanton Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770919
Burke Developmental Road Maramie (Carpentaria Shire) 89B, 256.00 to 303.00 Dunbar Station to Mareeba Shire Council boundary Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770069
Burke Developmental Road Howitt / Normanton (Carpentaria Shire) 89B, 1.00 to 1.81 / 89B, 1.81 to 29.49 Normanton to Walkers Creek Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770990
Burke Developmental Road Maramie / Yagoonya (Carpentaria Shire) 89B, 103.99 to 256.00 Gilbert River to Dunbar Station Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770064
Burke Developmental Road Cloncurry / Four Ways (Cloncurry Shire) 89A, 0.15 to 195.35 Cloncurry to Burke & Wills Roadhouse Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 774307
Burke Developmental Road Howitt / Yagoonya (Carpentaria Shire) 89B, 30.52 to 102.99 Walkers Creek to Gilbert River Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770062
Burke Developmental Road / Hensley Drive / Sir Hudson Fysh Drive / Hensley Drive Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) 89A, 2.02 to 2.02 Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 06:18 AM North West 774203
Burke Developmental Road / Kajabbi Normanton Road / Kajabbi Normanton Road Three Rivers (Cloncurry Shire) 89A, 73.66 to 73.66 Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 11:50 AM North West 769817
Chinaman Creek Dam Road Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) EAP in effect - Dam is closed to public Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 03:18 PM North West 774243
Cloncurry Duchess Road Cloncurry / Kuridala (Cloncurry Shire) 7708, 0.15 to 100.00 Cloncurry to Chatsworth Phosphate Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 774242
Cloncurry Duchess Road / Duchess Dajarra Road Duchess / Kuridala (Cloncurry Shire) 7708, 100.00 to 100.57 / 7708, 100.57 to 109.76 / 7708, 109.76 to 110.13 / 7708, 110.13 to 117.61 / 7708, 117.61 to 169.00 Chatsworth Phosphate Road to Dajarra Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 769838
Commonwealth Street / Duchess Road / Mount Isa Duchess Road / Mount Isa Duchess Road Clifton / Duchess / Mount Isa / Spreadborough (Mount Isa City) McIntosh Road (Local Road) to Cloncurry LGA Restricted to four wheel drive vehicles only Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 13/01/2026 08:01 AM North West 772470
Coolullah Road / Kajabbi Kamilaroi Road / Kajabbi Kamilaroi Road / Stanfield Street / Kajabbi Kamilaroi Road Three Rivers (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 11:46 AM North West 769820
Doomadgee Road Gregory / Nicholson (Burke Shire) Doomadgee to Hells Gate Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770319
Doomadgee Road Gregory (Burke Shire) Burketown to Doomadgee Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 771566
Dunbar Koolatah Road / Dunbar Kowanyama Road / Koolatah Access Maramie / Yagoonya (Carpentaria Shire) Dunbar to Koolatah Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770764
Ernest Henry Road / Antion Downs Road Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 11:48 AM North West 771039
Gregory Downs Camooweal Road Camooweal / Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) 6801, 41.44 to 129.49 Burke Shire Boundary to Yelvertoft/Thorntania Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 774229
Gregory Downs Camooweal Road Camooweal (Mount Isa City) 6801, 129.49 to 219.11 Yelvertoft/Thorntania Road to Barkly Highway Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 767598
Gregory Downs Camooweal Road Gregory (Burke Shire) / Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) 6801, 1.00 to 41.35 Gregory to Camooweal Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 774298
Gulf Developmental Road Blackbull (Croydon Shire) / Normanton (Carpentaria Shire) 92A, 0.09 to 47.20 Normanton to Carpentaria Shire boundary Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM Far North / North West 772045
Gunpowder Road / Southern Access / Unnamed Road / Gunpowder Rd Gunpowder (Mount Isa City) Barkly Highway to Mt Oxide Road (CH 0 - END) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 06:32 AM North West 772279
Headingly Road / Lake Nash Road Barkly (Mount Isa City) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 10:00 AM North West 772413
Hughenden Muttaburra Road Hughenden (Flinders Shire) / Tangorin (Barcaldine Regional) 5701, 0.14 to 158.58 Hughenden to Muttaburra Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:52 PM Central West / North West 770623
Julia Creek Kynuna Road Julia Creek / Kynuna (Mckinlay Shire) 5807, 0.14 to 112.00 Julia Creek to Kynuna Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 774260
Kajabbi Mt Isa Road / Lake Julius Road Mount Isa (Mount Isa City) / Three Rivers (Cloncurry Shire) Barkly Highway to Kajabbi Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 772681
Karumba Developmental Road / Karumba Road Howitt / Karumba (Carpentaria Shire) 84A, 0.01 to 0.01 / 84A, 0.01 to 36.51 Walkers Creek to Karumba Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 770885
Kennedy Developmental Road Hughenden (Flinders Shire) / Lyndhurst (Etheridge Shire) 14B, 90.82 to 99B, 247.29 Hughenden to The Lynd Restricted to high clearance vehicles only Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:53 PM Far North / North West 770824
Landsborough Highway Kuridala (Cloncurry Shire) / Kynuna (Mckinlay Shire) 13H, 0.14 to 168.99 Cloncurry to Kynuna Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 774282
Landsborough Highway Kynuna (Mckinlay Shire) / Winton (Winton Shire) 13G, 1.00 to 165.16 Winton to Kynuna Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM Central West / North West 774277
Landsborough Highway Kynuna (Mckinlay Shire) / Kynuna (Winton Shire) 13G, 147.11 to 165.89 Kynuna to Winton Shire Boundary Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM Central West / North West 774279
Lawn Hill Road Gregory / Lawn Hill (Burke Shire) Century Mine to Lawn Hill National Park turn-off Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770321
Lawn Hill Road Gregory (Burke Shire) 78A, 380.39 to 380.39 Gregory to Century Mine Access Restricted to four wheel drive vehicles only Hazard: Road damage 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 721552
Link Road Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 08:08 AM North West 769690
Malbon Selwyn Road / Malbon Selwyn Road / Selwyn Road Kuridala / Selwyn (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 11:48 AM North West 771037
Morestone Road / Unnamed Road Camooweal / Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) 6801, 189.56 to 189.56 Gregory Downs - Camooweal Road to End Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 14/01/2026 09:48 AM North West 772415
Nardoo Burketown Road Burketown (Burke Shire) / Gregory (Carpentaria Shire) Burketown to Leichhart River Crossing Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770636
Old Herbert Vale Road Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) Highland Plains Road to Riversleigh Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 14/01/2026 09:50 AM North West 772764
Old May Downs Road / Barkly Road Barkly / Gunpowder (Mount Isa City) Barkly Highway to Camooweal - Urandangi Road (CH 0 - 82700) Restricted to four wheel drive vehicles only Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 13/01/2026 08:05 AM North West 772923
Richmond Winton Road Corfield / Richmond (Richmond Shire) 5803, 0.01 to 96.94 From Richmond to Winton Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding 15/01/2026 05:53 PM North West 772949
Riversleigh Doomadgee Road / Riversleigh Road Lawn Hill (Burke Shire) Lawn Hill National Park to Riversleigh Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770322
Riversleigh Road Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) Gregory Downs - Camooweal Road to Old Herbert Vale Road (Mount Isa LGA Only) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 772679
Rocklands Road / Rocklands Road / Old Herbert Vale Road Camooweal / Lawn Hill (Mount Isa City) Camooweal Town to Old Herbert Vale Road Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 09:56 AM North West 772947
Sedan Dip Road Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) Road Closed Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 08:16 AM North West 774241
Thorntonia Yelvertoft Road Gunpowder (Mount Isa City) Barkly Highway to Gregory Downs - Camooweal Road (CH 0 - 58.2) Restricted to four wheel drive vehicles only Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 10:02 AM North West 772930
Torver Valley Road Hughenden (Flinders Shire) Galah Creek Causeway, Torver Valley Rd, Hughenden closed due to flooding Road closed to through traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 03:32 PM North West 774385
Westmoreland Road Nicholson (Burke Shire) Hells Gate to NT Border Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Long-term flooding due to heavy rain 15/01/2026 05:52 PM North West 770320
Zingari Road Cloncurry (Cloncurry Shire) Road closed to all traffic Flooding: Flash flooding due to water over road 15/01/2026 11:50 AM North West 771032