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Dawson Falls - Stratford Plateau tracks
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb · highs 17–17 °C (63–63 °F)
- J17°10°212
- F17°10°192
- M16°9°213
- A13°6°234
- M10°5°270
- J8°3°302
- J7°2°318
- A8°2°310
- S10°3°300
- O11°5°332
- N13°6°248
- D15°8°253
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
Walk one way from Dawson Falls to Stratford Plateau or complete a circuit back to Dawson Falls.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 6.8 km · 4.2 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)
- 1 hr 20 min one way | 3 hr 30 min - 4 hr return
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/cecc2bb517ec45799b5085ea414
- Mountain range
- Pouakai Range (Western North Island; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 14 km W of Stratford (Stratford District, Taranaki Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki (formerly Egmont National Park)
- Best months
- Feb
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Taranaki
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -39.3093, 174.1218
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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