Talk:State Highway 85 (New Zealand)
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Pig Route / Pigroot
[edit]The page refers to both Pig Route and Pigroot. Which one is correct? --Vbakke (talk) 18:04, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
The names 'Pig Route' and 'Pigroot' are both used in reference to this road, but Pigroot is recognised as being correct.
According to local folklore, when wagoners were discussing the conditions encountered on the notoriously difficult section of the road that traversed undulating country in the upper reaches of the Shag River catchment, they likened it to quagmires resulting from pigs rooting in boggy ground. This apt description was the basis of "Pigroot" being applied to the road now designated as State Highway 85. More specifically this name would be used for the higher altitude portion of the road between Green Valley and Kyeburn.
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