CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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On the way it passes 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 46 km this is Waterfall Way, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Werrikimbe National Park is where the day begins. 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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New England National Park comes up 77 km in. 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.
154 km in you reach Dorrigo National Park. 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, late in the day. Next is Werrikimbe National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Werrikimbe National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Werrikimbe National Park. That is the ride.
Werrikimbe National Park → New England National Park is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
New England National Park → Dorrigo National Park is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dorrigo National Park → back through New England National Park is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through New England National Park → Werrikimbe National Park is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.