New Zealand State Highway 97

State Highway 97
Route information
Maintained by New Zealand Transport Agency
Length: 19.7 km (12.2 mi)
Tourist
routes:
Southern Scenic Route
Major junctions
East end: Five Rivers Lumsden Highway , Athol Five Rivers Highway at Five Rivers.
West end: Devon Street at Mossburn
Highway system
SH 96SH 98

State Highway 97 is a New Zealand State Highway connecting the settlements of Five Rivers (on State Highway 6) and Mossburn (on State Highway 94) in the Southland Region. The highway was gazetted in 2004 to reflect the increasing amount of traffic between the tourist destinations of Queenstown and Fiordland National Park and provides a bypass of the town of Lumsden, where SH 6 and 94 intersect. In 2010, the highway was added to the Southern Scenic Route when it was extended from Te Anau to Queenstown. The road proceeds generally in an east-west direction through dairying farmland and crosses the Oreti River just north of Mossburn.

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