Ipswich–Boonah–Rathdowney Road
Ipswich–Boonah–Rathdowney Road is a rural road in Queensland, Australia, about 87.8 kilometres long. It has two official names—Ipswich–Boonah Road and Boonah–Rathdowney Road—and is signed as State Route 93, with much of it part of Tourist Drive 16.
The road starts at the Cunningham Highway in Yamanto, Ipswich, and runs south to Boonah, passing Purga, Peak Crossing and Milbong. At Peak Crossing Tourist Drive 16 joins the route. In Coulson it meets Beaudesert–Boonah Road (State Route 90), which runs east; SR90 shares the road with SR93 for about 6.8 kilometres before turning west.
The road enters Boonah as Coronation Drive and meets Boonah–Fassifern Road (SR90) before the name changes to Boonah–Rathdowney Road, exiting Boonah as Yeates Avenue. It passes Wallaces Creek and Coochin, then turns east to Maroon and Rathdowney, ending at the Mount Lindesay Highway in Rathdowney. In Coochin, Tourist Drive 21 (The Falls Drive) branches off toward Killarney. Tourist Drive 16, the Scenic Rim Drive, runs from Marburg to Tamborine via Rosewood, Boonah, Rathdowney and Beaudesert, and joins SR93 at Peak Crossing on its way to Rathdowney.
Historically, Boonah began to grow after 1868 when land was subdivided around large pastoral runs and a road was built to service farms; the Fassifern railway arrived in 1887. Rathdowney developed after 1842, with a road from Beaudesert and later a tramway to Rathdowney in 1911. These roads helped connect Boonah and Rathdowney as the area developed.
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