Scotsman Valley Ride - Cycling Near Hamilton

A 60km round trip from Hamilton. The start and finish are very flat but the 30km in the middle is fairly hilly. A great ride in rural Waikato. Starting from Hillcrest you head out to Matangi on Matangi Rd then turn left onto Tauwhare at the T intersection. Follow this road until coming to another T intersection where you turn right. This is still Tauwhare road, follow this until you come to a corner marked 35km/h and turn right onto Scotmans Valley Rd. This is about 15km from Hamilton and the trip to this point is almost completely flat. Once on Scotsman valley road there are a few undulations which after a while start to lead upwards to a nice down hill from here there are a few more reasonable hills before the end of the road where you turn left onto the Morrinsville-Walton Rd. A Couple of km down this road you turn left again onto Tahuroa Rd which is quite flat to begin with before some fairly steeply undulating terrain with a sort of staircase leading up to the start of the hardest section of this ride. It's only about 300m long but it is steep. From the top there is a quick dip down and back up then a slightly undulating descent before hitting the flats again and making your way back to Hamilton.