Best driving roads in New Zealand

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I'm not very skilled but I love the lil back road from wanganui>westmere school and either heading up tayforth road or down and out past Kai iwi, got it down now! I'm easy though,as long as I hear my car roar on the down changes it's a beautiful drive wherever I am

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 ShaylaJ said:

I'm not very skilled but I love the lil back road from wanganui>westmere school and either heading up tayforth road or down and out past Kai iwi, got it down now! I'm easy though,as long as I hear my car roar on the down changes it's a beautiful drive wherever I am

Drive out to Mowhanau beach is nice. Nice BBQ's out there or at Basin Reserve. Go past out to Ototoka Beach, nice little drive (unsealed thou) then back down Ka iwi Valley road.

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 kwikaus said:

south island inland Kaikoura road, this road was the high light of our south island trip, Hanmer to Kaikoura and

north island gentle annie even when it was gravel and just as good in tarmac form

Kaikoura to Hanmer FTW.

Did it in a 1991 non-fuel injected 1.6L corolla sedan. Scared brand new SUV's into pulling over to let me past because old people can't drive. Lulz were had.

[Johnnynz]

Yep Pyes Pa road is awesome too, found that recently.

And ototoka Beach is an ok drive but its kind of short. You can link up off of Kai iwi Valley road around on to brunswick ( I think it is) by taking the turn off just past the Kai iwi township, it loops right back up and around to Wanganui via the statehighway or down through Kaikokopu road, or also can go down through another road (name escapes me again) that brings you out mid Aramoho.

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 Johnnynz said:

Yep Pyes Pa road is awesome too, found that recently.

And ototoka Beach is an ok drive but its kind of short. You can link up off of Kai iwi Valley road around on to brunswick ( I think it is) by taking the turn off just past the Kai iwi township, it loops right back up and around to Wanganui via the statehighway or down through Kaikokopu road, or also can go down through another road (name escapes me again) that brings you out mid Aramoho.

blueskin road onto brunswick road is a very nice loop

[RAYDEO]

3 Mile Hill and High Cliff Road around Dunedin, there a few good roads on the Port Chalmbers side of the harbour too.

also Whare Flat road, where i learnt to drive. ;D

Its a stage of the Rally Of Otago and a CS Dunedin regular back in the day.

[Johnnynz]

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[quote name='Johnnynz said:

Yep Pyes Pa road is awesome too, found that recently.

And ototoka Beach is an ok drive but its kind of short. You can link up off of Kai iwi Valley road around on to brunswick ( I think it is) by taking the turn off just past the Kai iwi township, it loops right back up and around to Wanganui via the statehighway or down through Kaikokopu road, or also can go down through another road (name escapes me again) that brings you out mid Aramoho.

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blueskin road onto brunswick road is a very nice loop

Thats what im thinking of, got a few mates live out on Blueskin so at certain times of year do some paddock bashing on Bikes and every now and again my car out there.

[chrisjunkie]

Scenic Drive - Titirangi to Swanson is the best road that I've ever driven. Then again I don't do much driving as a poor Uni student haha

[RAYDEO]

theres also a section of road going from hanma to Nelson, its about 40 minutes from Nelson from memory, its FREEKIN awesome!!!

dosent look much on a map, but its amazing in person, if you take the extreme inside line you may as well drive off a cliff...

[GravelBen]

Plenty of good ones already been mentioned - Chaslands highway through the Catlins, Haast Pass and West Coast, Milford Road, Lindis Pass etc...

Highcliff used to be fun but seems a lot bumpier these days and always full of cyclists and tourist buses... come to think of it the buses are probably the reason the road is rougher. For Dunedinites George King Memorial Drive (out near Outram) is really nice.

Moa Flat road (Heriot to Ettrick) is pretty sweet but shhh keep it quiet.

Gravel-wise there is always Taieri Beach, Backline Rd and more others than I can count.

But I think the single most entertaining road I've ever driven, is this one:

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 EVILB4 said:

The forgotten world highway between Stratford and Taumarunui. If you want to test how well your car will go round a corner this is the place to do it, it's the only place I know of with 10kmhr corners.

yea they are good roads out there,but u want to do the gravel roads are heaps better cos i used to lived out there and have family there to,so if u wanna go on a road trip then on to taumarunui and beyond let me know lol

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I feel an oncoming fail-train - FUN police will be all over this like white on rice

Paekock hill Kapiti

Saddle Road Manawatu

Vinegar Hill to Fielding

Rimataka's were cool

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As long as it stays about the Road/drive/view should be find..... (but hey this is CS....)

Parapara's (wanganui to Raetihi) SH4

Rotorua to Kawerau SH30

Broadlands Rd

Goudies Rd

The Ski feild roads going up Mt Ruapehu (best views on clear sunny day)

Rotorua to kawerau is deff very good once you get to the rotoma cut, but lately they have widened sections and taken the fun out of some of it.

also manawahe rd is very good (used as a stage of targa rotorua)

i cant remember the name of the road but one of the roads out to the spectator point on the first day of the 2008 rallly NZ was epic somewhere out in the waikato

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i love saddle road-manawatu and the rimatakaz excuse my spelling if its wrong