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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)About this trail
Otago Central branch started 1879 with 215 km done in 1907 by hardy souls using pick, shovel, dynamite, horse and cart: it transported supplies, wool and livestock. Road transport caused closure by 1990. Within 10 years a Rail Trail was started.
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 152 km · 95 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Ref
- CRT
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- From / to
- Clyde → Middlemarch
- Route centre
- -45.2478, 169.8017
- Route start
- -45.1875, 169.3207
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 11680889
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.