Thread: Gravel roads : SI & NI

Guys, looking for some recommendations for routes / roads pls

Does not have to be 4wd, just as long as it isn't tarred

Stuff like Danseys Pass and Hakataramea Pass.

We have done the main Molesworth road down Awatere valley and also the Rainbow road.

Long way away but old motu road . opotiki to matawai doc camp site at the start of otipi track that runs over to motu river. Unsure what the track condition is like at the moment, or the road that goes from wairoa to murapara might as use this road while its still open to the public.
Most roads around Gisborne are half sealed and half metal

Tx @bigbear, are they looking at closing the waikaremoana road ?

They are trying to get rid of the great walk and huts from around the lake. So it can't be far away

Have done few in SI
Nevis
Mavora
Ashburton Lakes

Worth a look we went in our 40 series never used 4wd but always peace of mind as a bit of rain could bugger you up in a car.

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Originally Posted by erniec

Have done few in SI
Nevis
Mavora
Ashburton Lakes

Worth a look we went in our 40 series never used 4wd but always peace of mind as a bit of rain could bugger you up in a car.

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Ashburton lakes isn't a route, it's an in & out but there's about 80km of fun gravel if head up to Erewhon & to Heron. I do it most weekends in an Subaru Outback & good at 80-100kph. Funny seeing tourists driving at 15kph maximum heading up the the Lord of Rings site at Mt Sunday
Images here https://www.flickr.com/photos/godzon...57677158587547 as the GODzone advenutre race went through there recently.

Originally Posted by uk_exile

Ashburton lakes isn't a route, it's an in & out but there's about 80km of fun gravel if head up to Erewhon & to Heron. I do it most weekends in an Subaru Outback & good at 80-100kph. Funny seeing tourists driving at 15kph maximum heading up the the Lord of Rings site at Mt Sunday
Images here https://www.flickr.com/photos/godzon...57677158587547 as the GODzone advenutre race went through there recently.

True Ashburton Lakes are an in out.
A lot are like Skippers ,Mavora into Walter Peak.
We went up to Ashburton Lakes with a gale weather forecast.
Needless to same we didn't put up the tent.

This trip: Wellington, Pahiatua/Makuri Rd, Pori Rd, Haunui Rd, Tiraumea, Waihhoki Rd, HuiaRd, Akitio, Pongaroa, Rising Sun, Coonoor, Pahiatua.

Better take a machete on the huia and waihoki valley at present.
Another goodie is Marakopa to Pio Pio

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Better take a machete on the huia and waihoki valley at present.
Another goodie is Marakopa to Pio Pio

Being while since I done the Piopio/Marakopa road...the name eludes me at the moment..


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Originally Posted by tiroatedson

Being while since I done the Piopio/Marakopa road...the name eludes me at the moment..


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Pomerangi Road


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SI
The Dunstan road via Great Moss Swamp (if I recall names correctly)

Lake Onslow access both sides

Originally Posted by SiB

SI
The Dunstan road via Great Moss Swamp (if I recall names correctly)

Lake Onslow access both sides

That's a goody. Closed over winter I think.

A great gravel road from Waikouaiti to Middlemarch SI. Starts at Orbells Crossing near Karitane.

South Island.
Thompsons gorge road,Drybread to Tarras.