Best Driving Road In NSW - Which one challenges you?

[MISTA FIESTA]

Just a quick poll as to what has been the most enjoyable destination peoples have been on on our cruises or not. Ive only polled the ones I know of but feel free to note any others. :eclipsee_

[BeStRaFe]

old pac

also the drive between morisette and toronto is also fun

[Piotr]

I say royal national. Nice long flowing corners, excellent signage (no unmarked corners to surprise you) and very quick. I think Isaac will agree with me that this bit of road is simply awesome.

Old pac is nice but way overrated. I didn't rate it very high at all. Springwood is nice just very stop start and macquarie pass has idiots in commadores driving in the dead centre of the road.

[05MkIIFutura]

None should challenge you as you should be driving the car well within its limits, if you drive it 110% where is the room for error?? There is no chance to catch it if it jumps sideways on you, and all you will do is hit a tree, this thread is not crap and should be discussed on a public forum but without the context of excessive speed.

Change the heading to "Which one satisfies you" and I would be happier.

I like a technical road over going fast, I voted Macquarie Pass. Don't do it on worn NCT5s though or your headlights will become tail lights.

Springwood is just 3 hairpins in sucession. Not really a challenge and corners are hard to judge being blind corners

Royal National Park, apart for 4 or 5 bends, isn't challenging unless your way over the speed limit, and thats not cool. Whats good is that is a long road, and the link road to Waterfall is pretty good. Beautiful scenery. I normally do it once every 2 weeks.

Old Pac is even less technical as the Royal National Park, cept the destination area is sweet.

Never been down Galston Gorge.

Bored...

Springwood Rd

Macquarie Pass

Royal National Park

Old Pac

Galstone Gorge

[MISTA FIESTA]

Wow great stuff there Chris, that pretty much sums em all up.

[FOCUSonTHIS]

None because I live in Melbourne and we have better roads lol joking guys

[Orbit]

mt selwyn to Khancoban to threadbo along the alpine way. remembering to stop at scamells spur.
now that is a real drivers road!
also Araluen to Moruya is a fetchin great piece of dirt track.

[nitroman]

Originally Posted by Orbit

mt selwyn to Khancoban to threadbo along the alpine way. remembering to stop at scamells spur.
now that is a real drivers road!
also Araluen to Moruya is a fetchin great piece of dirt track.

I second that. The alpine way from Thredbo to Jindabyne is good fun too (in summer)

[Orbit]

Originally Posted by nitroman

I second that. The alpine way from Thredbo to Jindabyne is good fun too (in summer)

awesome scenery too to stop for lunch and what not....in the summer an din the winter it's still an awesome drive (until it's closed due to snow) but the run th threadbo in the snow is still awesome one of my favourite places to drive in winter.

[xbgs351]

Originally Posted by Orbit

mt selwyn to Khancoban to threadbo along the alpine way. remembering to stop at scamells spur.
now that is a real drivers road!
also Araluen to Moruya is a fetchin great piece of dirt track.

I would agree, except the speed limits have been dropped to either 60 or 80 km/h and the police find those roads rich pickings.

[CobraLeMans]

I love Nasho cause its close to me and ive done the odd dash through there. The most challenging and fun roads are the Snowy Mountains Highway between Cooma and Tumut (except for the roos), and the Braidwood road from Goulburn to Batemans bay.

[phat_stak_tipa]

Originally Posted by CobraLeMans

I love Nasho cause its close to me and ive done the odd dash through there. The most challenging and fun roads are the Snowy Mountains Highway between Cooma and Tumut (except for the roos), and the Braidwood road from Goulburn to Batemans bay.

mate just had a look at braidwood/kings hwy......WOW what a road could anybody give me heads up as to road surface along this route e.g good tar or is it chopped up.......i ride a bike and would like to do that run one day mmmmmmcorners

[Mechan1k]

Originally Posted by phat_stak_tipa

mate just had a look at braidwood/kings hwy......WOW what a road could anybody give me heads up as to road surface along this route e.g good tar or is it chopped up.......i ride a bike and would like to do that run one day mmmmmmcorners

Used to fang along there in my old Proton (it was bloody low ... but I had decent suspension under it) ... great road indeed.

bad weather down through Government Bend can produce some thick fog and wet weather can make it a tad treacherous as well ... but a rewarding road nonetheless.

I used to get bored between nightshift and drive from Sydney to Queanbeyan ... to Braidwood ... to Batemans' Bay ... and back to Sydney via the coast ... used to kill about 6-7 hours the night before a nightshift.

Since I have been married though ... it's rare to get out on a road trip on my own and enjoy a spirited drive.

[CobraLeMans]

Originally Posted by phat_stak_tipa

mate just had a look at braidwood/kings hwy......WOW what a road could anybody give me heads up as to road surface along this route e.g good tar or is it chopped up.......i ride a bike and would like to do that run one day mmmmmmcorners

Road condition is excellent and well suited for a bike. Rode my MV down there earlier this year and had too much fun Must admit though, had way more fun in a car.

[Uni]

voted macquarie pass, it's the best of those roads, most entertaining and easy to enjoy without blasting through the speed limit

also Broke Road off the F3, which is good as long as there's not too much traffic. road surface can be pretty choppy thought.. excellent cafe at the other end too


Uni/.

[janek]

I like the Bucketts way... Thats a challenge at night, in the rain 20 under! :P

even in the day when its dry, it can get a bit hairy approaching the limit...

(its not in the list, but its one on my list :P)

Golsten gorge is awesome

[335JET]

golsten gorge for me
as long no one is in front of you than it can be slow and very boring.
but on your own its awesom

[Eclipse]

Mac. Pass :eclipsee_ , Ive done so many runs up and down there, sometimes there were 3 to 4 cars of us, O yes they where the days :sm_headba .

[PHATXR8]

Snowy Mountains - from Tumut to Cooma to Thredbo to Khancoban to Cabramurra to Mt Selwyn in summer. There is bugger all traffic wide good windy roads....you won't find better in NSW!

[Orbit]

Originally Posted by PHATXR8

Snowy Mountains - from Tumut to Cooma to Thredbo to Khancoban to Cabramurra to Mt Selwyn in summer. There is bugger all traffic wide good windy roads....you won't find better in NSW!

summer is fast approaching anyone up for a cruise of the alpine way?
meet in cooma go to thredbo day one tumut day 2 cooma day 3?
cheap accomodation during summer and plenty of things to see.

[photn]

i like the Jamberoo Run......umm ill Vote Natio good bends. just need to get the Entry and Exit points right as Pie Pointed out!

[RichieMK6]

The Oldroad for sure been driving it 13years and till love it ,know just but every stone on the road

[Dshibi]

I put down the National Park... I think because it still has a sensible speed limit which leads to a fair bit of fun, goes for a while and has changing sceneries which help keep it interesting.

I also like the Putty Rd (not listed), but haven't driven on it for a while.

Old Pac unfortunately is no fun at all with a stupid speed limit and too much enforcement nowadays.

The Galston Gorge/Berowra Waters loop can be a lot of fun, and I want to revisit Ku-Rin-Gai Chase National Park as I remember those roads were intersting.

Dan

[Teki04]

Originally Posted by Abraxas

I also like the Putty Rd (not listed), but haven't driven on it for a while.

That is a great stretch of road. Did it in my Fiesta a while back. It was great on the way there, but on the way back in the HEAVY rain... I remember getting to the end and the other guys asking 'How was your ESP going?', and when I replied 'What ESP?' they were all a little shocked.

Great road, great corners, and some good opportunities to overtake slower traffic too :

[photn]

the Mt kiera lookout road is very much the same. very interesting.

[TURBO_GHIA]

kangaroo valley ??

[Fast Eddie]

CobraLeMans rightly points out the road between Braidwood and Bateman's Bay. It's a ripper as I have travelled it again just a few weeks back. Although we're not likely to get down there as it's a bit of a distance to travel in one day.

I went searching for venues for our upcoming photoshoot and went down the road to Mt. Wilson. It's a very challenging piece of road. As is the entire Bell's Line of Road. BLR is one of my favourites.

[RichieMK6]

gotta know the right time to run on the old road