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By 1949 the road was sealed as far south as Te Kūiti and the reinforced concrete bridge over the Waipā at Ōtorohanga had been started. [14] Mokau Bridge opened 1927. The 12 ft (3.7 m) wide, single-lane, [11] 11-span, 670 ft (200 m), steel, Mokau Bridge opened in October 1927 (official opening 17 December), replacing a punt.
The Inland Kaikōura Road, formerly designated State Highway 70, is a provincial highway in the South Island of New Zealand that runs from just south of Kaikōura to just north of Culverden via Waiau and Rotherham. White shields are used to signify this highway. It forms part of the Alpine Pacific Triangle tourist route.
The Routeburn Track is a 32 km tramping (hiking) track found in the South Island of New Zealand. [2] The track can be done in either direction, starting on the Queenstown side of the Southern Alps, at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu or on the Te Anau side, at the Divide, several kilometres from the Homer Tunnel to Milford Sound.
Road maps usually number state highways in this fashion. Of the total state highway network, New Zealand currently has 363 km (226 mi) of motorways and expressways with grade-separated access and they carry ten percent of all New Zealand traffic. The majority of the state highway network is made up of single-carriageway roads with one lane each ...
The Southern Scenic Route is a tourist highway in New Zealand linking Queenstown, Fiordland, Te Anau and the iconic Milford Road to Dunedin via Riverton, Invercargill and The Catlins. [1] An Australian travel magazine labelled it "one of the world's great undiscovered drives" in 2008.
Breaks with the general north-south pattern of the numbering, being some 200 km south of SH 54 and having the southernmost endpoints of any North Island state highway apart from SH 1 and SH 2. SH 3 near Palmerston North: SH 1 at Vinegar Hill Feilding, Cheltenham: 56.5 SH 57 at Makerua Awapuni, Palmerston North: Opiki, Longburn: 22.9