Why this ride
A shore-hugging corridor with open water, cliffs, bays or maritime landscapes. It links naturally to Cape Floral Region Protected Areas.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Chapmans Peak and Cape Point
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 134 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 45
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Editorial context
Coordinates are curated start-via-end route seeds. They are not a surveyed centreline or navigation geometry. Run road snapping, topology checks, access checks and a live-status review before publication.
Access context
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Seasonal context
Sep-Apr
Scenic road chapters
Route 62
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 15 km this is Route 62, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 15 km
- Named road
- Route 62
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cape Town
Cape Town sits at the foot of Table Mountain, a flat-topped sandstone wall about a kilometre high, and on a day when the tablecloth of cloud spills over the edge it is one of the great sights of the world. The city lies between the mountain and the Atlantic, with a harbour that was founded in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company as a supply station for ships on the route to the East. It grew into a port of many cultures, and the mix of Dutch, Malay, African and British influences is still visible in its food, language and architecture.
Read the complete Cape Town write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cape Town sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Hout Bay.
2. Hout Bay
Hout Bay is a fishing harbour wedged into a bowl of mountains on the Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula, and it keeps a stubborn, salty independence from the city just over the ridge. The name is Dutch for wood: early settlers cut the forests that once stood in the valley for timber, long before the suburbs, and today the slopes of the Sentinel, a rock peak that guards the mouth of the bay, are covered in fynbos and houses with fine views. Constantia, about seven kilometres away over the pass, is the nearest big suburb.
Read the complete Hout Bay write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hout Bay comes up 25 km in. Next is Chapmans Peak.
3. Chapmans Peak
Nine kilometres of road hang on the cliffs between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, and the Cape Peninsula has nothing better. Chapman's Peak Drive was cut into the sheer face of the mountain in the early twentieth century, opening in 1922 after years of work, and it clings to the rock a hundred metres or more above the Atlantic with 114 corners, so people say, in a short, spectacular ride. Between bends there are galleries and shelters built over the road to protect it from falling rock, which is a fact of life here.
Read the complete Chapmans Peak write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
51 km in you reach Chapmans Peak. Next is Cape Point.
4. Cape Point
Cape Point is where the Cape Peninsula runs out of land: a ridge of sandstone cliffs falling about two hundred metres into the Atlantic, with a lighthouse on top and a wind that can blow your visor shut. People often say it is where two oceans meet and that it is the southern tip of Africa. Neither is quite right. The tip of the continent is Cape Agulhas, a long way east, and the meeting of warm and cold currents is a broad, shifting zone rather than a line, but none of that matters when you stand on the viewing platform and watch the swell come in from Antarctica.
Read the complete Cape Point write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cape Point, late in the day. Next is Cape Town.
5. Cape Town
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cape Town write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cape Town sits at 134 km, late in the day.