CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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On the way it passes Willi Willi NP, New England National Park, Dorrigo National Park and back through New England National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 46 km this is Waterfall Way, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Werrikimbe National Park lies on the rim of the Great Escarpment in northern New South Wales, about a hundred kilometres inland from Port Macquarie, and it belongs to the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage area that preserves remnants of the forests that covered the ancient supercontinent. The landscape is high and wet, a plateau of eucalypt forest, tree ferns, swamp and cliffs where rivers begin their descent to the coast. Fenwicks Scrub is a small patch of this vegetation, a pocket of rainforest in the folds of the hills.
Read the complete Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve write-up.
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Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Willi Willi NP.
The coast of northern New South Wales is famous for beaches, but a few hours inland the land climbs into a different world of ridges, gorges and old rainforest. Willi Willi National Park lies in the hills behind Kempsey and Port Macquarie, in country that belongs to the Dunghutti people, and it protects a patch of that wilder landscape. The region is part of the broad belt of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest that runs up the Great Dividing Range, the remnants of an ancient forest that once covered the supercontinent of Gondwana.
Read the complete Willi Willi NP write-up.
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Willi Willi NP comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is New England National Park.
At Point Lookout, on the edge of the New England tableland in northern New South Wales, the land drops away so suddenly that on a clear morning you seem to be standing on the rim of the world. The escarpment falls more than a kilometre to the Bellinger valley, and on many days a sea of cloud fills the valleys below, with the ridges sticking out like islands. New England National Park protects this edge of the Great Dividing Range, and it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage site that preserves forests whose lineage goes back to the time when Australia was part of the supercontinent of Gondwana. Here grow Antarctic beech trees, gnarled and draped with moss, in a cool temperate rainforest that feels more like a fairy tale than Australia.
Read the complete New England National Park write-up.
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about 374 km into the recorded legs you reach New England National Park. Next is Dorrigo National Park.
The Dorrigo plateau rises behind the coast of northern New South Wales like an island of rainforest in a sea of farmland, at about seven hundred metres, with rich red soil formed by ancient volcanic basalt. The national park protects the largest stand of subtropical rainforest on the plateau, and it is one of the Gondwana Rainforests sites on the World Heritage list. The trees are huge: strangler figs, brush box, tulipwood, and tree ferns in the shade beneath, with epiphytes and orchids on every branch. Walking in this forest after rain, the air smells of wet earth and leaves, and the sound of dripping is everywhere.
Read the complete Dorrigo National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Dorrigo National Park, about halfway. Next is back through New England National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete New England National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through New England National Park sits at 657 km, about halfway. Next is back through Willi Willi NP.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Willi Willi NP write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Willi Willi NP comes up about 882 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve closes the day.
Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve → Willi Willi NP is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Willi Willi NP → New England National Park is 267 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
New England National Park → Dorrigo National Park is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dorrigo National Park → back through New England National Park is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through New England National Park → back through Willi Willi NP is 267 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Willi Willi NP → Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.