Sounds to Sounds: Bikepacking Marlborough Sounds to Fiordland

Sounds to Sounds Official Guide
Second edition for the 2025 season

Sounds to Sounds Official Guide gives you the practical information you’ll need as you ride the 1,500 kilometre route from Marlborough Sounds to Milford Sound.

Sounds to Sounds is a top-to-bottom journey of the South Island, stretching 1500 km from the Marlborough Sounds to Milford Sound. Explore the eastern lands of Te Waipounamu and take in the inimitable scenery. Tried and tested, this guide will see you through every step of this great adventure with its cue sheets, maps, elevation charts and information on services and accommodation.

Updates for the 2022 (first) edition

(1) We’ve changed the route between Geraldine and Lake Tekapo to swoop through Pleasant Point and Cave. This change incorporates a new cycle trail and avoids a some ho-hum hilly farmland.

(2) Taylors Pass Road (south of Blenheim) will be intermittently closed for logging from 6 am – 5 pm, Monday to Friday, until mid-2025. The temporary bypass for weekdays is to go over Redwood Pass instead. You can keep using Taylors Pass.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
Imprint: Kennett Brothers NZ
Publication date: 29/11/2024