Photos of access road and Blue Pool taken after a typical winter snow drop.
Following was recently posted on TRM facebook: Anglers please take note the Blue Pool car park access road is still only navigable by high clearance 4WD type vehicles (or rental cars?). The deep pot-holes on the track will damage mufflers of a normal family saloon. We have had complaints from anglers for over six months now and referred them all to the Taupo Fishery Managers…
Another local, Turangi’s bird rescue hero, Carol Harwood, suggested:

What a perfect solution for the ‘authorities’ to win back some brownie points from anglers!
There is a big mound of shingle excavated from Downs Pool, now stock-piled at the end of Grace Road, just looking for some pot holes to fill in. It should be so easy…
Part of the problem may be that it crossed over ‘private’ property owned by the Justice Department – which means anglers own it?
Below – the rapid below Sand Pool…
Below Big Bend Pool – park on Blue Pool access road 1.8 km from SH1.