Auckland
Auckland
This tour takes you on a 12 Day North Island Motorcycle Tour from top to bottom and the interesting motorcycling roads in between.
From the giant Kauri forest of the far north to the Motorcycling Nirvana that is the Thames-Coromandel highway, one of the top-rated motorcycle rides in the world. The tour continues in the same vein traversing through the wide sweeping forestry roads of the Kaimai Ranges, spectacular lake side roads of the Blue Lakes District – Rotorua and the scenic coastal roads of the East cape and West coast.
Finishing the tour you will be riding through Central North Island landscape and rolling King Country roads back to Auckland.
At a glance
13
12
3160 km
Note: The waypoints do not reflect the single itinerary steps.
Day 1 : Auckland to Paihia
3h 6min
via Whangarei, SH 1
227 km
Day 2 : Paihia to Cape Reinga
2h 51min
Awanui, SH 10 & 1
213 km
Day 3 : Cape Reinga to Dargaville
4h 44min
via Opononi, SH 1 & 12
285 km
Day 4 : Dargaville to Thames
3h 45mins
via SH 12, 1, 2, 25
291 kms
Day 5 : Thames to Rotorua
5h 11min
via Coromandel Loop, SH 25, 2 & 36
316 kms
Day 6 : Rotorua to Rotorua
0h
Rest Day in Rotorua
0 kms
Day 7 : Rotorua to Gisborne
3h 44min
via East Coast, SH 30 & 2
273 km
Day 8 : Gisborne to Taupo
4h 26min
via Napier, SH 2
328 km
Day 9 : Taupo to Wellington
4h 45min
via SH 1
372 km
Day 10 : Wellington to New Plymouth
4h 58min
via Mt Taranaki, SH 3
386 km
Day 11 : New Plymouth to Tauranga
4h 7min
via Cambridge, SH 3, 1 & 29
311 km
Day 12 : Tauranga to Auckland
2h 44min
Finishing the 12 Day North Island Tour you will be riding through Central North Island landscape via Kaimai-Mamaku Forest and SH 2 back to Auckland.
203 km