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Trail data: NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0). Open the area on OpenStreetMap or the official page. Basemap: OpenFreeMap (OpenMapTiles, © OpenStreetMap contributors).
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The track to Donnelly Flat passes through some of the best mixed podocarp/broadleaf forest in the Tararua Range - this short, easy walk with a picnic area and stream on route is an great option for kids.
Description from NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 2.1 km · 1.3 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 1 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/ac0b15b92de146ff88bc860676e
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -40.9003, 175.4682 (centre of the official trail line)
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · 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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