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Dobson Loop Track
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Trail data: NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
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This track provides two day-walking options: a return trip to Smith Creek via Puffer Saddle, or a more challenging and longer loop track
Description from NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 8.6 km · 5.3 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty (DOC)
- Easy, Advanced
- Typical time (DOC)
- 5.5 hr (return to Smith Creek Shelter)
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/65f6ea0efdb54a02a5330195341
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -41.0541, 175.2779 (centre of the official trail line)
Photo taken near this trail: “Tauherenikau River 62.jpg” by Sarang, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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