Things to do
Nobody drives it just once.
Six kilometres in, most people have already pulled over twice. This is what is worth stopping for — the viewpoints, the picnic country, the trails, and the hour of the day that makes the whole thing worth planning around.
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Things to do
Nobody drives itjust once.
Six reasons people turn around at Noordhoek and drive straight back.
The Lookout
The postcard view of Hout Bay, taken from a ledge surveyors crossed on all fours in 1914.
ExploreGolden Hour
The Atlantic turns to bronze. Locals plan their whole week around it.
ExplorePicnic Country
Stone tables tucked into the fynbos, free on the Day Pass.
ExploreThe Half Tunnel
Road carved beneath a mountain held back by 95-tonne anchors.
ExploreMountain Trails
Cannons from 1782, a climb to the peak, and the whole peninsula below.
Explore114 Curves
Nine kilometres of the most photographed coastal road on earth.
ExploreAlong the route
Eight places worth the handbrake.
Every one of these is mapped at its true position on the route map. Tap through to Plan Your Drive and any of them will hand you straight to Google Maps for directions.
Hout Bay entrance
The northern end. Coffee and the harbour are two minutes behind you.
East Fort
Cannon batteries dating to 1782, and the trail up to the old lookout.
Sentinel View
The Sentinel across the bay — best in early light.
Toll plaza
Pay here, or scan a Frequent User tag. The first 2.7 km is free on a Day Pass.
Picnic tables
Stone tables in the fynbos, with the drop to the Atlantic below.
Chapman's Peak View Point
The postcard. Hout Bay behind you, open ocean in front.
Chapman's Peak
The high point of the drive, 593 m of mountain overhead.
Noordhoek entrance
The southern end, and the long white beach a few minutes on.
Meet Chappie
There is a guide on every page.
Most people never notice him.
Chappie is the small button in the bottom-right corner of every page on this site. He answers the questions the office fields on the phone all day — is it open, what does it cost, how long does it take, where do we stop — without anybody having to pick up.
He is deliberately not a chatbot bolted onto a website. He reads the same live road status the band at the top of the page reads, so he can never tell somebody the pass is open when the control room has just closed it.
Demonstration answers today. The full conversational guide is
scoped and priced separately.
Ask him
Is the road open right now?
Reads the live status the control room published, and routes you over Ou Kaapse Weg if it is shut.
What does it cost?
The gazetted tariff for your vehicle, the Frequent User rebate bands, and where the Day Pass gets you for free.
What is there to see along the way?
East Fort, the picnic sites, the Lookout, the half tunnel, and where to stop for whales between June and November.
Tell me the story of this road
A century of it — the 1607 landing, the surveyors on all fours in 1914, and the prince who opened it in 1922.
Plan me a day on the pass
Builds a day-trip itinerary offline — the stops, the timing, and what the toll will cost — that you can share in a tap.
Before you set off
The four things worth knowing.
Gate to gate without stopping. Nobody does it without stopping.
Hout Bay to Noordhoek, 114 curves.
West-facing. The last hour before sunset is the one.
The Day Pass from the Hout Bay side — picnic sites and trails at no charge.