New Plymouth Surf Taranaki Surf Highway 45
Home of the Triple Seven Series Surf Competition
New Plymouth’s main holiday spot, Fitzroy Beach is a great place to start with excellent beach breaks. Westerly Swells from the deep south produce excellent waves all along the coast from Waiwakaiho river to Belt Rd. Back Beach is just south of the port and has excellent sand bars and takes a North / East / South winds, Back beach for surfing, any water sports.
The Taranaki coastline provides the best surf in the New zealand. New Plymouth’s Fitzroy Beach faces north west, Stent Road faces west, and Opunake Beach faces south-west: so you are guaranteed adrenalin-pumping rides all within a 60 km radius. The Taranaki cape has many farm service roads which fan out from the Volcanoe to the Sea.
Oakura Beach is an amazingly beautiful sea village with ok waves at high tide. Ahu Ahu Road has slow left and right-hand reef breaks, but can be off more than on. Stent Road (37 kms from New Plymouth) is regarded by most as one of New Zealand’s top rated surfing spot, the right hand point takes up to 12+ feet and is most challanging, there are gauranteed tubes here, respect the locals though and watch the bowl!!!.
The Taranaki South coast
Take S.H.45 from New Plymouth and turn off just past the village of Warea. The west-south-west orientation of the Stent bay seems to magnatise all swells that hit the coast. The result is consistently excellent waves that break on a near perfect right hand shelf, this all comes together to make Stent Road a favourite spot
Opunake Surf
Opunake
Beach (64 kms from New Plymouth), the dump, Mangahumi are
all close by and provide some excellent juice this is an amazing surf
Location with shallow reefs, Points and sand bars , Opunaki is surf
active all year round
Have a look at Greenmeadows just south of Opunake you will need a
local Guide to set you up here and the sand has move from days gone
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What people says about Surf in New Plymouth, TARANAKI
"New Plymouth surfing identity Wayne Arthur said this was the biggest opportunity New Zealand surfing had ever had."No one has gone close to attracting this kind of talent here before,"
Taranaki had the perfect geographical layout for the inaugural event with a myriad of surf breaks."It's an area I have heard of for a long, long time, I have seen pictures of it,"
"New Zealand and particularly Taranaki has quite a deep surfing culture, it has a long history going back to the late 50s."