The Cobb Highway
Visit the Long Paddock – Cobb Highway Touring route, by caravan, 4WD or car and explore NSW from the banks of the Murray River to the iconic outback towns of Broken Hill, Bourke and White Cliffs.
The modern Cobb Highway follows a historic route that is part of the great network of stock routes that became colloquially known as The Long Paddock - a web of tracks and trails that linked the stock-breeding areas of the inland with the growing markets in the south. It also provided the only escape route from drought when the seasons failed. It still provides us with a link to times and landscapes that are long since altered.
The Cobb Highway is part of a very significant Travelling Stock Routes network that traverses New South Wales. The network covered an area, estimated in 1975, to be approximately 2.27 million ha or 2.83% of the State's land mass
History of the Cobb Highway Stock Route.