Blue Mountains, Upper Hutt Pictured here with a rush of cyclists climbing through the trees on big chain rings during the NZ Road race championships of 2006, this 2km stretch of hill-climb qualifies as a special back-road on it's own. You could ride North out of Wellington (towards the Wairarapa) and never know this parallel route existed. I've been up and down it a hundred times. Getting there from the city is un-memorable. The ride from the top of the hill through Whiteman's Valley is nice, but road surfaces make it nothing special. It is this hill alone that sticks in my memory as a brilliant 'back-road'.
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As tourism replaces travel, the special journeys are becoming harder to find. This Group celebrates the obscure and hard to find pleasures of NZ's back roads and routes. Mode of travel? Don't care - two wheels, four wheels, or on foot.
Join us if you're willing to share and celebrate a secret road trip that avoids anything with the words 'State Highway' in it.
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