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Comet Road end to Shutes Hut
Next nearby hike: No Man's Road area tramping tracks 0.9 mi · 1.4 kmExplore Kaikomata Range →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Aug–Jun · highs 10–22 °C (50–72 °F)
- J22°12°88
- F21°12°87
- M19°10°101
- A16°8°103
- M13°6°93
- J10°4°116
- J10°3°142
- A11°4°109
- S13°5°97
- O15°7°90
- N18°8°84
- D20°11°100
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
From Comet Road End take a 2-3 hour walk to historic Shutes Hut, built in 1920 for rabbiters and musterers to use.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 4.6 km · 2.9 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 2-3 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/28a05ff526904f8cbc60da59b68
- Mountain range
- Kaikomata Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 37 km E of Moawhango (Rangitikei District, Manawatu-Wanganui) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Kaweka Forest Park
- Connects to
- No Man's Road area tramping tracks (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Aug–Jun
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Hawke's Bay
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -39.5035, 176.2854
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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