Kimanis–Keningau Highway

Kimanis–Keningau Highway
Route information
Length: 53 km (33 mi)
Major junctions
West end: Kimanis
  1 Federal Route 1
500 Malaysia Federal Route 500
Interior North-South Highway
East end: Keningau
Location
Primary
destinations:		 Crocker Range National Park
Kota Kinabalu (From Keningau/Tenom)
Keningau (Main Destination)
Tenom (via Keningau)
Highway system
One of the very steep slopes along the Kimanis-Keningau Highway.

Kimanis–Keningau Highway is a state highway in Sabah, Malaysia, connecting the town of Kimanis to Keningau. It also acts as an alternative for Federal Route 500 from Kota Kinabalu to Tenom which is longer. The 53-kilometre (33 mi) highway began as a main logging road before being upgraded to a full two-lane highway.[1] The highway was opened to traffic in 2006.

Even though the highway is relatively short and is in very good condition, it is notorious for its very steep gradients along the way, ranging from 10% to about 25%, making the Kimanis–Keningau Highway as the steepest highway in Malaysia.[2][3] As a result, climbing road lanes are provided at steep sections.

A gravity hill induced by optical illusion is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Keningau. It is reported that at the gravity hill, there is a slope which appears as a downhill slope, but is actually an uphill slope.[1]

List of interchanges

KmExitInterchangeToRemarks
Kimanis1 Federal Route 1

North
Kota Kinabalu
Papar

South
Beaufort
Sindumin 		Roundabout
Shell Layby ShellKeningau bound
Bongawan EstateNorth
Papar

South
Bongawan 		Roundabout
Kimanis–keningau Highway R&R Complex R&R complex
Kimanis bound
Layby Keningau bound
-- m above sea level Kimanis bound,
Engage lower gear
West Coast Division
Papar district border

West Coast-Interior division border

Interior Division
Keningau district border

-- m above sea level Keningau bound,
Engage lower gear
Crocker Range National Park
-- m above sea level
Jalan Masak Roundabout South
Jalan Patikang Ulu
Tenom 		Roundabout
Keningau 500 Federal Route 500
Interior North-South Highway


Northeast
Tambunan
Ranau
Kota Kinabalu

Southwest
Tenom
Melalap
Sook

Roundabout

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Titik Misteri, Bukit Graviti dan Bukit Magnetic" (in Malay). Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  2. ↑ "Kimanis-Keningau Road". Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  3. ↑ Zulnizam Shahrani (28 December 2011). "Ekspedisi solo Kuala Lumpur – Borneo penuh kepuasan" (in Malay). Berita Harian. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
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