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Big Bend Track and Whakanui Track
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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- A15°11°101
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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
Big Bend Track: from Turere Bridge up the Orongorongo River to Whakanui Creek. Whakanui Track: climbs the ridge between Whakanui Creek and Turere Stream and drops to Sunny Grove in Wainuiomata. At high points there are good views of the Remutaka Range.
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Trail facts
- Length (signed)
- 18 km · 11 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 12 km · 7 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Remutaka Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 2.0 km SE of Wainuiomata (Lower Hutt City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- From / to
- Turere Bridge, Orongorongo River → Hine Road, Wainuiomata
- Route centre
- -41.3084, 174.9868
- Route start
- -41.2763, 174.9696
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 11772764
How it’s scored
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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