Bridge to Nowhere

Experience the Famous Mangapurua Track / Bridge to Nowhere by Mountain Bike.

Through pristine forest, over rolling hills, along sheer bluffs and beside majestic river, the Mangapurua Track to the Bridge to Nowhere offers a fascinating glimpse into postwar life in the central North Island. This section is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of New Zealand’s best day rides, its variety providing a great experience for riders of all levels. Standing on the Bridge to Nowhere at day’s end, it’s incredible to think that the pioneers made anything of this remote and difficult terrain, the Whanganui River steamboat
services their only contact with the outside world.

Up there on the bridge, you really do feel transported back to another time; it’s only when you cruise the last couple of kilometers down to the Whanganui River and hear the gurgle of a modern jet boat that you’re brought back into the present.