The Croisilles: Marlborough s road least travelled
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Elen Turner heads down a spectacular side road to the notorious French Pass
A relatively recent transplant to the Top of the South, I d seen the boats towed from Nelson turning off State Highway 6 in the Rai Valley every time I drove to and from Havelock for a mussel lunch. But it s hard to tell around here which turn-offs lead to private farmland and dead ends, and which to otherworldly beautiful road trips that are among the most scenic in New Zealand.
The Croisilles Harbour–French Pass Road is definitely the latter (with plenty of the former sprinkled in along the way, too). But because this is a detour from the highway, not a highway in itself as are other Must Do road trips in the South Island Haast Pass or the road to Mount Cook, for example to take it, you have to know it s there.