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Bannockburn Sluicings
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct–Apr · highs 13–21 °C (55–70 °F)
- J21°11°48
- F20°11°36
- M18°9°46
- A14°6°37
- M9°2°40
- J4°-1°39
- J2°-3°33
- A5°-1°33
- S10°2°34
- O13°5°41
- N16°8°38
- D19°10°55
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
This vanished landscape is New Zealand’s own wild west: The Bannockburn Sluicings are the scarred landscapes of a short-lived goldmining era.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 2.4 km · 1.5 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 1 hr 30 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/7a1ebd3a6daf42ef9a4f5094d69
- Mountain range
- Carrick Range (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 6.9 km SW of Cromwell (Central Otago District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Connects to
- Long Gully Loop Track, Mt Difficulty tracks (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Oct–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -45.0850, 169.1427
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · 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.