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Dun Mountain Trail - walking
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J20°13°88
- F20°14°74
- M19°12°91
- A16°10°99
- M13°8°106
- J11°6°113
- J10°5°99
- A11°5°108
- S13°7°103
- O15°9°119
- N17°10°104
- D19°12°102
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
Dun Mountain Trail follows New Zealand’s first railway (1862) bringing minerals from Wooded Peak. After a steady gradient to near Coppermine Saddle, the trail descends to Maitai Dam and follows the water supply pipeline in the lower Maitai Valley.
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 35 km · 22 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Barnicoat Range (Northwest Ranges; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 2.3 km S of Nelson (Nelson City, Nelson Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Nelson
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- DMT
- Operator (OSM)
- Nelson City Council
- From / to
- Nelson, Brook Street, 135 → Coppermine Saddle
- Route centre
- -41.3193, 173.3325
- Route start
- -41.2902, 173.2925
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 11609058
- Official info
- nelson.govt.nz/recreation/recreation/walks-and-w
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.
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