Why this ride
The stops in between: Werrikimbe National Park, Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve and back through Werrikimbe National Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Willi Willi NP and Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 379 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 32
- 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. 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
Willi Willi NP 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 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve.
3. Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 187 km into the recorded legs you reach Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve. 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 Willi Willi NP.
5. Willi Willi NP
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
Back at Willi Willi NP. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Willi Willi NP to Werrikimbe National Park
Willi Willi NP → Werrikimbe National Park is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Werrikimbe National Park to Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve
Werrikimbe National Park → Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve to back through Werrikimbe National Park
Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve → back through Werrikimbe National Park is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Werrikimbe National Park to Willi Willi NP
back through Werrikimbe National Park → Willi Willi NP is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.