Done it a couple of years ago, after wanting to do it for many years. Awesome trip, stopped off to look at the old grave in the Gorge. ( Old time Rd surveyer buried there) Had a beer in the whangamonama pub 😊
We drove the Forgotten Highway last November and stayed the night at the local campground. It's very inexpensive and you can walk to the pub for a drink or dinner. The local camp is run on a voluntary basis - the old school there was closed and was going to be pulled down until the community decided to make the area in a camp ground!
Did it in our bus a couple of months ago. We can testify to the good fish n chips and friendly staff at the pub. I wouldn't have run through that tunnel though LOL.
We went that way at xmas. Stopped off at Bushlands Campground at Tangarakau for 2 nights before Whangamomona. Great farm walk to a fossil canyon with wild horses and goats. Nice laid back family campground. Had a great little museum of fossils found. With a visit one day.
We did that road with our 20ft caravan last year & stayed at the old school camp with little horses, goats & chickens running around. We spent three nights there. It was great. Weve also been through quite a few years ago when the whole road was all gravel on our motorbikes. (Big touring bikes). We stayed a night at the pub & had a great time. There is so much history there. If you go again visit the cemetery. 😊
10:51 should definitely stop at Morgan's Grave on the southern side of the Tangararakau gorge and stop at all of the information signed areas. There's heaps of history all through that area
It was mostly loose metal when I went over it in the 1970s. Ive never heard that town pronounced as a moana before, so we must have been saying it wrong all these years. Poor Harvey's hard work. I hope he gets a bonus thus week 😅
Friend and I cycled this highway. It’s bloody amusing hearing you say it takes a few hours to do it when it took us two days! One of the best highways in nz. Beautiful. There was a point where I believe a gorge was to our left with mountains climbing up just past it, and we felt like we were in Jurassic park. New Zealand is a place I miss daily. I’ll miss it forever.
Oh how funny! Yeh I think it was just because it took us way longer than Google predicted 😅 do you just cycle down the highway or are there some trails? That a pretty decent ride but beautiful like you say!
@@AdventuresWithRosy we cycled along the road till we turned off to reach New Plymouth (a place I fell in love with instantly). Before we did the highway we had just completed the Timber Trail which was a mountain bike ride popular with hikers as well as cyclists. That one finished near Taumaranui where we stayed a couple days to wait out threatening bad weather.
I think if we do it again we will spend a night somewhere along the way to break it up a bit. Apparently there is a good campground in Whangamōmona so that might be a good one 👍
Hi Mate I am now comparing driving from New Plymouth to Lake Taupo through coastal line, or driving state high way 43. My mum is about 70 and got car sick problems, so probably I shouldn't pick state high way 43, right? Thanks
Yeh I wouldn’t to be honest, it’s a rather beautiful drive through there but it’s got lots of tight winding corners so might not be the best… that coastal drive is nice though 👍
