The Pacific Coast Highway leads from Auckland across the peninsula Coromandel and the Bay of Plenty to Hastings.
background
preparation
getting there
Here we go
Auckland - Coromandel (153 km)
- Auckland on the SH 1
- Auckland / Manukau
- Papakura turn on Papakura-Clevedon-Road
- Clevedon
- Kawakawa Bay
- Orere, Orere Point
- Wharekawa
- Miranda Hot Springs, Waitakuru, on SH 25
- Parawai
- Thames
- Ngarimu Bay
- Coromandel (city)
Coromandel - Tauranga (175 km)
Tauranga - Opotiki (142 km)
Opotiki - Ruatoria (201 km)
From Opotiki on the winding SH 35 along the sparsely populated coast to
Ruatoria - Gisborne (130 km)
continue on SH 35
- Tokomaru Bay
- Wharekaka
- Gisborne
Gisborne - Hastings (243 km)
change to SH 2
- Nuhaka
- possible detour to the Mahia peninsula
- Whakaki Lagoon
- Wairoa
- Raupunga
- Keteketerau
- Napier
- along the coast on the SH 2
- to Hastings