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Coming up is the small Whanganui River township of Pipiriki. Jet boat tours to the Bridge to Nowhere depart from Pipiriki and travel upriver to Mangapurua Landing. From there it’s a 30 minute hike to the bridge itself, built in 1936 over the Mangapurua Stream, a tributary of the Whanganui, to service a hardy group of returned soldiers rehabilitated here as farmers at the end of WWI – again to fight, but this time against natural odds, transforming the virgin forest into farmland. At one time there were 30 farms in the valley, but poor access, erosion, and falling stock prices forced most to abandon the land. In 1942, the remaining few were asked to leave when the government, short of money, refused to maintain the flood-damaged road. And so the bridge stands abandoned in the middle of the bush, a relic of another time, and the old roads are now used as hiking tracks.
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