List of mountain passes of the Eastern Cape explained

This is a list of publicly accessible, motorable passes in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

List of Passes in the Eastern Cape province

Name	Location	Highest Point	Road	Between towns	Road surface
All Saints Neck	-31.6767°N 28.0127°W		R61	Mthatha and Engcobo	tar
Barkly Pass	-31.2357°N 27.8419°W		R58	Elliot and Barkly East	tar
Baster Voetslaan Pass	-31.1748°N 27.9795°W		pass joins R393	Barkly Pass and Ugie	rough gravel
Baviaanskloof	-33.6464°N 24.4554°W			Willowmore and Hankey	gravel
Bidstone Pass	-30.715°N 27.8307°W			near Tiffindell Ski Resort	gravel
Blaauwkrantz Pass	-33.3853°N 26.7051°W		R67	Grahamstown and Port Alfred	tar
Boesmanshoek Pass	-31.4982°N 26.4854°W			Molteno and Sterkstroom	tar
Bruintjieshoogte Pass	-32.6795°N 25.3458°W		R63	Somerset East and Pearston	tar
Buffalo Pass	-33.0353°N 27.7979°W		M5	East London	wide tar
Buffelshoek Pass	-32.4864°N 25.234°W			Pearston and Cradock	gravel
Bulhoek Pass	-31.2395°N 25.7065°W			Steynsburg	gravel
Buyspoort (Buispoort)	-33.3499°N 23.4344°W		N9	Uniondale and Willowmore	tar
Cala Pass	-31.4737°N 27.7234°W		R410		tar
Carlislehoekspruit Pass	-30.7188°N 27.9568°W			Rhodes and Tiffendell	steep gravel
Cats Pass	-32.4281°N 28.4352°W			Butterworth and Mazeppa Bay
Colonanek	-30.6463°N 29.048°W			Mount Frere and Cedarville
Combrink's Pass	-33.6529°N 24.5013°W
Daggaboers Nek	-32.5356°N 25.8431°W		N10		tar
De Beer's Pass	-32.315°N 26.1857°W			Cookhouse and Tarkastad
Devil's Bellows	-32.4163°N 26.6667°W				bad gravel
Dontsa Pass	-32.6132°N 27.2437°W		R352	Keiskammahoek and Stutterheim
Doringnek	-33.3806°N 25.7112°W		R335		gravel
Ecca Pass	-33.2006°N 26.6185°W		R67	Grahamstown and Fort Beaufort	tar
Fonteinkloof Pass	-33.5947°N 26.1224°W		R72	Port Elizabeth and Alexandria	tar
Fuller's Hoek Pass	-32.6885°N 26.5195°W			Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve	gravel
Ghwarriepoort	-33.3881°N 23.3918°W		N9	Uniondale and Williston
Grasnek Pass	-33.649°N 24.3433°W
Greylings Pass	-31.1188°N 27.2999°W		R396
Groot-Doringhoek Pass	-31.3795°N 26.0736°W		R391	Hofmeyr and Molteno	gravel
Hankey Pass	-33.8821°N 24.8401°W		R330		tar
Helspoort Pass	-33.1701°N 26.3209°W		R350		tar
Hogsback Pass	-32.6136°N 26.9134°W		R345		good tar
Holgat Pass	-33.6403°N 24.4563°W
Joubert's Pass	-30.7167°N 27.244°W	2349	detour off R58		gravel
Kareedouw Pass	-33.9621°N 24.2667°W
Katberg Pass	-32.4561°N 26.6547°W				gravel
Kei Cuttings	-32.5499°N 27.9639°W		N2		wide tar
Killian's Pass	-31.1832°N 27.2953°W
Kumajaba Pass	-31.284°N 28.5357°W			Maclear
Kwaaiman Pass	-31.7253°N 27.6956°W			Cala and Tsomo
Lehana's Pass	-30.6787°N 28.2007°W
Lootsberg Pass	-31.8272°N 24.8555°W			Graaff Reinet and Middelburg, Eastern Cape	tar
Lundin's Neck (often misspelt Lundean's Nek)	-30.6471°N 27.7422°W	2162	R393	Tele Bridge and Barkly East	gravel
Michel's Pass	-32.5621°N 26.861°W				gravel
Mlengana Pass	-31.5449°N 29.1814°W			Mthatha and Port St. Johns
Moordenaarsnek	-30.8397°N 28.544°W		R56	Mount Fletcher and Maclear	wide tar
Munnikspoort	-32.298°N 24.5243°W		N9		tar
Naudeberg Pass	-31.9682°N 24.719°W				tar
Naude's Neck Pass	-30.76°N 28.0761°W			Maclear and Rhodes	gravel
Nico Malan Pass	-32.4807°N 26.8361°W		R67	Fort Beaufort and Whittlesea	tar
Nonesis Nek Pass	-31.8416°N 26.9883°W			Queenstown and Lady Frere	tar
Nuwekloof Pass	-33.516°N 23.646°W			Willowmore and Baviaanskloof	gravel
Olifantskop Pass	-33.3189°N 25.9465°W		N10	Paterson and Cookhouse	wide tar
Otto Du Plessis Pass	-31.2346°N 27.5305°W			Ida - Clifford	gravel
Ouberg Pass (Oude Berg Pass)	-32.1212°N 24.4077°W			Graaff Reinet and Murraysburg
Pefferskop Pass	-32.6501°N 26.8827°W			Seymour and Dimfield	gravel
Penhoek Pass	-31.4626°N 26.7015°W		N6	Queenstown and Aliwal North	tar
Perdepoort	-33.1888°N 23.4314°W		N9	Graaff Reinet and Willowmore
Pitseng Pass	-30.7573°N 28.3057°W
Pot River Pass	-30.9326°N 28.2103°W		R396		gravel
Potter's Pass	-33.0406°N 27.8695°W			Westbank, East London	urban
Qacha's Nek	-30.1283°N 28.6863°W				gravel
Red Hill Pass	-32.7116°N 27.1836°W		R352	Keiskammahoek and King Williams Town
Satansnek	-31.5984°N 27.9433°W
Smuts Pass	-31.407°N 26.792°W				tar
Soutpansnek	-32.8733°N 24.7137°W		R75		tar
Stormsrivier Pass	-33.9888°N 23.9118°W
Suurberg Pass	-33.2835°N 25.7202°W			Patterson to Stonefountain
Swaershoek Pass	-32.3468°N 25.4611°W
Swanepoelspoort	-33.1143°N 23.894°W			Willowmore and Jansenville
Tarka Pass	-32.4719°N 25.6666°W				wide tar
Van Stadens Pass	-33.9128°N 25.2025°W		R102	Port Elizabeth and Humansdorp	wide tar
Wapadsberg Pass	-31.9311°N 24.8837°W		R61		tar
Witnek Pass	-31.8811°N 24.6954°W
					tar

See also

• Mountain Passes of South Africa

References

• Wild Dog Adventure Riding, South Africa