Why this ride
It goes by way of Werrikimbe National Park, Willi Willi NP and back through Werrikimbe National Park. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mt Seaview Nature Reserve and Willi Willi NP
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 478 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 8 h 13
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mt Seaview Nature Reserve
Mount Seaview is a high point on the edge of the tableland where the New South Wales Northern Tablelands begin to drop toward the Pacific, and the nature reserve there protects a patch of forest that gets more rain and mist than almost anywhere around. The land is rugged, with steep slopes and tangled gullies, and the vegetation is a blend of dry eucalypt forest on the ridges and cool rainforest in the damp folds. This is the Hastings Range, the eastern flank of the Great Dividing Range, and the forests belong to the larger Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, whose lineage reaches back to the time when the continent was part of a great southern landmass.
Read the complete Mt Seaview Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mt Seaview Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Werrikimbe National Park.
2. Werrikimbe National Park
Werrikimbe lies on the rim of the Great Escarpment in the hinterland of the New South Wales mid-north coast, a remote tract of high plateau, eucalypt forest and rainforest pockets, cut by deep gorges and wild rivers. It belongs to the Gondwana Rainforests, the World Heritage group that links patches of ancient forest scattered along the ranges of eastern Australia.
Read the complete Werrikimbe National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Werrikimbe National Park comes up about 132 km into the recorded legs. Next is Willi Willi NP.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 239 km into the recorded legs you reach Willi Willi NP. Next is back through Werrikimbe National Park.
4. back through Werrikimbe National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Werrikimbe National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Werrikimbe National Park, late in the day. Next is Mt Seaview Nature Reserve.
5. Mt Seaview Nature Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mt Seaview Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mt Seaview Nature Reserve. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mt Seaview Nature Reserve to Werrikimbe National Park
Mt Seaview Nature Reserve → Werrikimbe National Park is 132 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Werrikimbe National Park to Willi Willi NP
Werrikimbe National Park → Willi Willi NP is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Willi Willi NP to back through Werrikimbe National Park
Willi Willi NP → back through Werrikimbe National Park is 107 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Werrikimbe National Park to Mt Seaview Nature Reserve
back through Werrikimbe National Park → Mt Seaview Nature Reserve is 132 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.