Tasman View Road​

Name	Tasman View Road
Location	Tasman
Co-ordinates	1599413  5443150
Alternative co-ordinates
Configuration	Linear
Distance	12 km
Status	Off-leash
Grade	Moderate
Access	Part of the Great Taste Trail and accessible from various places. To start in the north, take Motueka Highway northwards towards Motueka, and park near the Riverside Community. Walk starts about 70 metres north of the community, on Community Road. To start in the south, take Harley Road off SH60, just south of the Tasman turnoff, and continue for ca. 2.5 km to where Tasman View Road crosses. To walk north, drive up Tasman View Road for ca. 500 metres to end of sealed road and park; to walk south, drive southward for ca. 300 metres and park.
Description	Tasman View Road is a long, unmaintained gravel road which provides a good, quiet route for dog-walking. The northern section is part of the Great Taste Trail and incorporates a cycleway; the southern section is an informal walkway and cycleway. Sidelinks also offer variations and opportunity for loop walks. Sadly, some of the track is being spoiled by hoons in utes who seem intent on trashing the track and anyone who might be using it, and some gross residential development on the land around. For now, though, it's still worth using, and if you walk to the saddle midway between Harley Road and Community Road, there's a bench, shade sail and two indicator boards naming all the hills around.
Connecting tracks	Stagecoach Road
Further information	Value

If you want a long, reasonably easy walk, in which you'll never tire of the scenery, you can't do much better than head for this section of the Great Taste Trail. Winding along the ridge of the Moutere Hills from near Mapua in the south to Lower Moutere in the north, Tasman View Road provides continuously stunning views of Ruby Bay, the Richmond Ranges and the distant mountains of the Kauranghi and Nelson Lakes national parks. And in case you can't identify them all, there's an information board with panoramas naming all the hills, about halfway along (see photo).

Tasman View Road is a paper road, no longer maintained by the Council, but offering legal access to walkers, cyclists and the more adventurous mororists. Luckily there aren't yet many of the last of these (though with the sprawling development that's sadly occurring in this area, the numbers of vehicles on the track is beginning to increase). But you will meet plenty of cyclists, the occasional jogger and the even more occasional walker. The road is gravel - easy, though not wonderful to walk on - but along the way there are dedicated cycling sections, which walkers can share. Most of the way there's also a wide verge where the dogs can run - and it's all fenced off from the neighbouring agricultural land, so there's nothing to worry about on that score. From north to south (or, indeed from south to north!) it's about 15 km long, but there are several linking roads that can also be walked, including a good loop of ca. 4 km down to Flaxmore Road. And if you want more, the track also links with the Stagecoach Road walkway (see map), and from that to Dominion Flats. ​ 

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