CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 335 km round trip from Wauchope - roughly 4 h 58 in the saddle. On the way it passes Gingers Creek, Apsley Falls, Walcha and back through Apsley Falls. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
A mountain highway from Wauchope, New South Wales to Walcha, New South Wales, via Gingers Creek. Key character: rainforest; escarpment; long bend sequences. Surface: paved.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 22 km this is Oxley Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Wauchope sits on the Hastings River in the green country behind Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast, a country town of six thousand with a main street of pubs and bakeries, and with a fuel station and a decent meal, so this works as a warm start or a quiet finish. The river flows past the edge of town, and the paddocks are rich dairy and timber land between the coast and the escarpment.
Read the complete Wauchope write-up.
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Wauchope is where the day begins. Next is Gingers Creek.
Nobody builds a monument to a creek crossing, and Gingers Creek is not one. What you get is the landscape itself, which is reason enough to stop.
Read the complete Gingers Creek write-up.
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Gingers Creek comes up 53 km in. Next is Apsley Falls.
Apsley Falls is the place where the gentle New England tableland suddenly falls apart. The Apsley River drifts across open grazing country east of Walcha, and then, without much warning, it plunges over a lip of basalt into a deep gorge that belongs to Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Standing at the railing, you can feel the spray and hear the water long before you see the base. The gorge walls are layered rock, and the whole scene has the look of a country that was cut open by water over millions of years.
Read the complete Apsley Falls write-up.
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107 km in you reach Apsley Falls. Next is Walcha.
Walcha sits on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales at about a thousand metres, high enough to have real winters, with frosts, a few snowfalls and a cool, clear air that smells of eucalyptus and woodsmoke. The town is small, with about two and a half thousand people, and it wears its sheep country history openly. Fine merino wool built the district, and for a century the big properties around Walcha shaped both the landscape and the social life. English elms and oaks planted in the streets turn gold and red in April, which is not a sight many people expect in Australia.
Read the complete Walcha write-up.
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Walcha, about halfway. Next is back through Apsley Falls.
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Read the complete Apsley Falls write-up.
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back through Apsley Falls sits at 213 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gingers Creek.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gingers Creek write-up.
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back through Gingers Creek comes up 267 km in. Next is Wauchope.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wauchope write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wauchope closes the day.