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Borland Road to Monowai Hut
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb · highs 14–14 °C (57–57 °F)
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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
Borland Road to Monowai Hut is a local hiking route in Fiordland National Park, Southland, New Zealand, about 17 km (10 mi) in length. It is in the Hunter Mountains. Difficulty: Hard (7/10).
Short summary written from the trail facts on this page.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Length (signed)
- 17 km · 10 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 16 km · 10 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Hunter Mountains (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 45 km SW of Te Anau (Southland District, Southland) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Fiordland National Park
- Best months
- Feb
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Southland
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- Route centre
- -45.7868, 167.3521
- Route start
- -45.7399, 167.3727
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 2865328
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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