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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)About this trail
The route is in five stages - 4-5 hr Pinnacles carpark to Washpool Hut - 2hr 30 min Washpool Hut to Pararaki Hut - 2-3 hr Pararaki Hut to Kawakawa Hut - 2hr 30 min Kawakawa Hut to Mangatoetoe Hut - 1 hr 30 min Mangatoetoe Hut to Mangatoetoe car park
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Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 27 km · 17 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- AC
- Operator (OSM)
- Deparment of Conservation
- From / to
- Pūtanguirua Pinnacles car park → Cape Palliser
- Route centre
- -41.5221, 175.2670
- Route start
- -41.4501, 175.2258
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 12120473
- Official info
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/wa
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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