Henry Lawson Way


The Henry Lawson Way is a sealed rural road that links Forbes, situated on the Newell Highway, to Young, situated on the Olympic Highway in the central western region of New South Wales, Australia.
The road is named in honour of Henry Lawson, an Australian writer and poet, who was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields, located adjacent to the modern-day rural road.

Route

The road commences in Forbes at a junction with the Gooloogong-Forbes Road. It continues south over relatively flat countryside, crossing the Bundaburrah Creek and Ooma Creek, before it forms concurrency with the Mid-Western Highway west of. The concurrent road heads east into the town of Grenfell, where the concurrency terminates as the Henry Lawson Way heads south towards Young through highly undulating countryside. It reaches its terminus at a junction with the Olympic Highway.

Major intersections