Tour Aotearoa route MASTER 2023-11-20

0 Photo control stops

01 Cape Reinga - distance signs

02 Ninety Mile Beach - anything anywhere on the beach

03 Tane Mahuta - big tree

04 Poutu Point

04B Alt route: Matakohe Post and Telegraph Office

05 Mt Eden - summit

06 Between Thames and Te Aroha - a cow or sheep

07 Matamata i-SITE

08 Centre of North Island

09 Ongarue Spiral

10 Bridge to Nowhere

11 Drury Hill

12 A totara or the Pohangina River

13 The giant kiwi in Ekatahuna

14 Rimutaka Summit Tunnel

15 Cook Strait Ferry - anything, anywhere from the ferry

16 Maungatapu Saddle

17 Lake Rotoroa - from the jetty

18 Maruia Saddle - the beech forest

19 Waiuta Track boardwalk [It's around-about here]

20 Greymouth Bar

21 Hokitika Clock Tower

22 Lake Ianthe

23 Fox Glacier - from the glacier lookout

24 Knights Point Lookout

25 Haast Pass saddle

26 Hawea Walkway Bridge

27 Cardona Hotel

28 Queenstown

29 Between Mossburn and Invercargill - a random Southland local

30 Bluff distance signs

1 Cape Reinga to Auckland

1.1 Cape Reinga to Rangiora Ferry Terminal

1.2 Rangiora Ferry Terminal to Rawene boat trip

1.3 Rawene to Dargaville [2023]

1.4 Dargaville to Pouto Point (boat pickup)

1.5 Optional Kaipara Harbour bypass

1.6 Kaipara Harbour charter boat trip

1.7 Parakai to Auckland

2 Auckland to Taumaranui

2.0 Auckland to Taumaranui

2.1 Hunua Traverse weekday entrance

2.2 Clevedon to Kaiaua via coast

2.3 Optional 500m side trip to Ongarue Store 001

Hawkes Bay Trail segment - CLOSED 2022

3 Taumaranui to Wellington and Picton

2024 BYPASS - Kennedy Good Bridge to Petone

3.1 Taumaranui to Mangaparua Landing

3.2 Whanganui jetboat trip

3.3 Optional Mangapurua Track to Raetihi to Pikipriki

3.4 Pipiriki to Wellington Ferry Terminal

3.5 Optional Durie Hill elevator bypass (hill climb)
If the elevator is closed you'll have to climb the hill yourself by this option.

3.6 Optional Wgtn Ferry to Bluebridge Ferry Terminal
If you're catching a Bluebridge ferry instead take this extra bit.

3.7 Cook Strait boat trip

4 Picton to Greymouth

4.1 Picton to Greymouth

4.2 Optional start from Bluebridge Ferry wharf
If you're getting off the Bluebridge ferry you have to go this way.

4.3 Optional Pathway Link into Ngakuta Bay
A nice mountain bike alternative. (This off-road trail is slowly being extended west, in different segments.)

4.4 Old route via Dovedale and Sunday Creek Rd

4.5 Flood Bypass - Reefton to Hukarere on Hway7
Use this bypass only if Big River is in flood. Check with DOC in Reefton for river conditions.

5 Greymouth to Queenstown

5.1 Greymouth to Queenstown

5.2 Wet weather (high river) bypass
Use this only if it has been raining heavily for the last day or more, i.e., if the Wainihinihi Creek is likely to be in flood.

5.3 Optional Fox Glacier Carpark walk to Glacier Lookout

5.4 Wanaka Outlet constuction only bypass

5.5 Wanaka Outlet full bypass via suburbs

6 Queenstown to Bluff

6.1 Earnslaw Ferry boat trip

6.2 Walter Peak to Bluff