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The boundary between the Waikato and Manawatū-Whanganui regions intersects the Desert Road at its summit, which at 1,074 m (3,524 ft) above sea level is the highest pass on the New Zealand State Highway network. The Lord of the Rings films were shot in New Zealand, and the Black Gate of Mordor scenes were shot in the Rangipo Desert in 2000.
The road between Rangipo (10 km (6.2 mi) south of Tūrangi) and Waiouru is commonly known as the Desert Road. SH 1 enters the Manawatū-Whanganui Region, and descends through an army training area to the end of the Desert Road at Waiouru.
The Rangipo Fault (also known in the past as Desert Road Fault, Whangaehu River Fault, 'Whangaehu Fault [1]) is the eastern Taupō rift-bounding north–south striking normal fault complex of the Ruapehu Graben, a seismically active area of the central North Island of New Zealand to the west of Mount Ruapehu.
The Kaimanawa Range, officially called the Kaimanawa Mountains since 16 July 2020, [2] is a range of mountains in the central North Island of New Zealand. [3] They extend for 50 kilometres in a northeast–southwest direction through largely uninhabited country to the south of Lake Taupō, east of the "Desert Road".
An old lahar flow is visible from the approach road to Whakapapa ski field. On Christmas Eve 1953 a sudden lahar at night on Mt Ruapehu knocked out the rail bridge at Tangiwai, causing six carriages of the Wellington–Auckland express to plunge into the Whangaehu River, killing 151 people in New Zealand's worst railway disaster. [3]
North of Waiouru is the section of State Highway 1 called the Desert Road. This runs for 50 km through the Rangipo Desert to Tūrangi, at the southern end of Lake Taupō. Waiouru is on the North Island Main Trunk railway, which came through in 1907. Waiouru Railway Station is the highest station (814 m) on the New Zealand rail system.
State Highway 41 (SH 41) is a New Zealand state highway in the central North Island that runs from Manunui, just south of Taumarunui on SH 4 to Tūrangi just north of the Desert Road. It comprises part of the western bypass of Lake Taupō along with SH 32.
SH 46 (Lake Rotoaira Road) – National Park: Desert Road begins: Ruapehu District: Desert Road: 794: 493: Desert Road Summit 1,074 m (3,524 ft) Waiouru: 815: 506: SH 49 – Ohakune, National Park: Desert Road ends: Rangitikei District: Vinegar Hill: 885: 550