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Just a small correction. I'm local in Ashhurst and the first big slip ISN'T the slip that closed the road. It's the next one at Kerry's Wall. The first slip, to my knowledge has never be publicised in any official channels

It's amazing how in just over three years nature has reclaimed so much.

Totally agree, roads should be made to move with the land, not cut right through it. I’m glad Manawatu gorge has told us this.

Thanks for the adventure...I remember riding the steam train through the gorge in the 90's & kayaking through on the river around 2000...:)...you stirred up the memories...thanks again.

This brings back memories of going from woodville to Palmerston North every day for school 😩

Fantastic video guys, I went and visited the Woodville end for the first time since it closed in 2017, I only went as far as the first locked gate but it was still great to see the road again nonetheless. It’s crazy just how much nature has taken back in 5 years. Also I’m just watching some of your other videos too, interesting stuff.

Our family traveled that road many times in the 50's & 60s, last I drove on it was about 35yrs ago under overhead rock faces, 🥴 As a 5yr old I remember riding in a red passenger train & watching the cars traveling along from the other side.

I miss driving through here at high speed. R.i.p gorge

such a shame, but a lot like our port hills in Christchurch, earthquake 9 years ago.

Its not the only abandoned area, Mangamuka, Northland is the same. On the Number 1 highway, fractured by a previous storm. Now people wanting to get to Kaitaia further north via the No.1 Highway, have have no choice but to search out alternative routes. But, no one would have known, when or how devastated roads and gorges would have been impacted in our country. Look at Mohaka gorge,... devastated by mother nature.... just one of several areas drowned and taken out by the masse flooding. We arent the only country being hit either. Global warming.... Truely frightening.

This makes me sad...I've travelled that road all my life.Sad to see its shut off

Early eighties myself and some friends on our ten speeds would ride from Palmy to Ashurst, get 3 largies each and then ride through to Balance and swim all day. Always had a bloody headwind on the way home. Great memories. Would fly through there faster than some car's. Fun

Great Video, thanks for sharing

Yes Iv driven thru here for many years 80s - 2000s since it's closing Iv ridden thru on my bike like most have "enjoyable ride" feed/kai in Woody then ride back couple cold ones in Ashurst DAMN good day out!!🙂

Just came across this. I didn't even know it was closed till right now. It makes me a little sad. Just because while i was at boarding school we used that road to travel to Hastings for school functions. I'll always remember looking over the side as we past hoping time would slow down before we'd make it back to school, or looking at the banks and wondering if it would slip as we drove past, even the graffiti that somehow managed to be put on the rail way crossing. This road, althought not traveled to often still holds fond memories in my heart

Love this video. Great to explore on what our country has to offer. I hope to see more of this sometime soon too. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Mean venture bro! Keep em coming :)

Thanks lads, really enjoyed your video. Many fond memories of that road

Amazing video, such good cinematography!!

Epic mate. Loving your videos, especially this one. Being an adventure junkie myself and having such a passion for our Aotearoa backyard, this vid hits the spot. It is such a shame that this road is now closed off

Awesome guys! Loved it..

this deserves 1mil

Love the video I hope you will continue to do more of these abandoned roads series 👍🏼😁

Good ones. I worked there in 1968/69 with the Ministry of Works. They got the work done not like contract companies today who seem to be out to make a buck. We saw plans in those years of the George's new roading - pity they didn't do it then. It wasn't going to be the George as we know it but it was going to take another route over the top but back from the road side.

Remarkable footage bro, looks awesome

Brilliant, you guys. I always wanted to see that road one more time. My curiosity is satisfied and grateful, and

Thanks for sharing. I used to drive along there.

Wow such an awesome work on the gorge

Big rock in middle of river near the water fall is known as the taniwha/river monster of the manawatu gorge

Great job guys... looooooove the footage! Well done :)

Very awesome video team loved it 😎👍

There are a lot of roads in NZ that are a land slide or Major flood away from permanent closure..the road to Westport along the Buller river is the one I'm most familiar with..the repairs are of the standard you would expect on a road that's close to being abandoned in the near future!!!.♥️🇳🇿

I would really recommend that anyone wanting a first hand experience to jump the fence and see it for them selves. I did it on foot about 6 months ago it only takes about a hour from one end to the other.

Great clip - good work.

Nice vid. I’m from Palmerston North.

I miss the George

Very good vid well done!

Wow that road got messed up! I hope they put in another "better" road, the track they are using now just isn't cutting it. Anyway awesome footage guys, I hope they open it as a walking / hiking track for the public in the future.

Cheers boys.

Back in the war the Americans wanted to build a bridge right through the centre of the gorge river but they went with the carving of the road instead. Should the river ever get dammed up in an earthquake woodville from the bottom of the coppermine hill to the entirety of ashurst and palmerston north have about 3hrs before they are completely flooded. The last big flood my daughters poppa remembers walking ontop of the railway tracks and the water slyshing halfway up his gumboots and watching cows float by below the tracks but above the road track. As a kid the gorge road was brutal i never made it through without vomiting multiple times, it toik around 20 mins to make it from 1 end to the other and by the age of 50 you could ( but shouldnt) get from 1 end to the other in just on 7mins if you knew the road. It also had its own local lads that filled their yellow mini with a keg of beer and just like the blondini crew in gd bye pork pie they set off for invercargill, HOWEVER, they didnt make past the ashurst end of the gorge after been accosted by the local coppa and dragged home to their parents they were at the time only 15years of age. Lol. I miss the gorge.

Last time I was in New Zealand the gorge was open, how do you get to Palmeston North now from the Hawkes Bay?

That's a really nice video, nice photos as well This pandemic, well you can see what has happened. This covid is telling that there are too many people on this planet There are over half the population that has every existed on the planet right now.

When was it closed?.

It only started slip, slipping away when NZTA tried to make the road suitable for townies and Jaffa's!

It's Budleigha, a non native weed. Pull it out...if you can ;) but bees love it. It Shouldn't be in nz though.

my uncle is one of the other 'risk seekers'

Can you tell me where do road users travel down on now

Nz is a country that I always wanted to visit. But this country is too far from me.

I aWays looked at the edge and

Best way to get to Woodville if you can't drive and have a will to live and avoid the saddle on a bike 😂 safe as don't see why they don't run tours and make some money off it

good footage... sad pronunciation of Maanawatu

How did you get your bikes over the fence thats closed off the road? Lol i want to go and do this. Like right now 😂

hey bro! Chasm is pronounced Kasm. Just so you know for next time.

manawatu gorge is only empty because they didnt fix it correctly the first time

Don't go in there it's tapu

Typical bureaucratic glass half empty mentally...a huge profit could be made by quarrying the area and making the road-bed wider. Might take a few years...but the road could eventually re open

Does the train still run on the other side of the river....?