Crown Range Road South Island

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... side on a gorgeously sunny day with the Southern Alps in the background. The actual drive from Wanaka to the jump site via Crown Range road was one of the best drives so far in NZ, the road plunges down hairpin bends and you can see Queenstown and Lake ...

... product.  Scott get the rare Osteiner Reisling and a Gewurz that he was craving, and we head out the Crown Range Road.  Sipping wine BEFORE lunch is becoming less disconcerting.  Stop at the Cardrona Hotel (1863) for the requisite ...

The drive from Queenstown to Wanaka was not very far, unless you took the Crown Range Road, then it's not much further but it takes a lot longer with better scenery, and there's a fence with bras on it, for some reason.   So we went that ...

Wanaka is an awesome alternative to Queenstown and we really enjoyed the drive over the crown range road which chops off a massive 40km off the distance by shooting over the mountains. The drive starts just outside off Queenstown and climbs via a series ...

We took the Crown Range Road from Wanaka to Queenstown and stopped at a lookout point along the road, which gave us a majestic view of the valley below. The road itself is said to be really bendy and difficult to drive, but we found it quite normal and ...

... to Wanaka. The usual highway will do this over 95kms but there is a more direct 50km route along something called the Crown Range Road. This is the way to go as you travel through the Cardona Valley and have some amazing viewpoints along the way. Its a ...

... stopped at Arrowtown, a very picturesque and well preserved 19th Century gold mining town, and then drove through the Crown Range road to Wanaka, where we stopped for a while at the Puzzling World, an interesting tourist attraction featuring several ...

... quite difficult to ride a bicycle up a kerbstone. I was on and off the bike so progress was slow. Passed the bottom of the Crown Range road which will be my route if I ride to Wanaka. It looks awful, maybe a 1:3 at the bottom and with the road going ...

We journeyed back from Wanaka to Queenstown via the scenic route over Crown Range Road with spectacular views over Queenstown. Our aim was to spend time at Arrowtown - an old mining town which has been restored and maintained. So it was coffee and' he ...

... , we stopped at arrowtown which has very quaint looking houses and streets. after arrowtown, we drove on the crown range road which is extremely scenic. Decided to do the trek to the rob roy valley today as the travel ...