Route 66, USA eat your heart out, here\u2019s a route with attitude. State Highway 6, rugged, hidden corners and a journey through the soul of scenic Aotearoa New Zealand. <\/p>\n
Country blues, folk music, empty roads and drop dead gorgeous scenery. This is not a detour or byway, rather a major aerial route into the beautiful remote West Coast of the South Island. The Great West Coast Road runs between Murchison, Westport and Greymouth has been named one of the Top 10 Coastal Drives in the world according to Lonely Planet. The road hugs river gorges and skirts the coast and the hills as it wends its way south. It is a continuous route from the northeast top of the South Island, crossing the Alps then down to the bottom of the South Island, Queenstown and beyond to finish at Invercargill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,39,224],"tags":[],"filter_destinations":[153,180,199,152,223,91,139,130,132,96,210,249,134,179,155,138],"filter_categories":[82,192,53],"filter_topic":[194,187],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n