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Gillespie Pass Circuit
In Mount Turner
Next nearby hike: Mount Shrimpton 2.5 mi · 4.0 kmExplore Mount Turner →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jan–Apr, Nov · highs 13–18 °C (55–64 °F)
- J18°10°175
- F18°10°132
- M16°8°192
- A13°6°154
- M9°3°177
- J5°-1°205
- J3°-2°157
- A5°0°174
- S8°2°192
- O11°4°205
- N15°6°183
- D17°9°238
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.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 45 km · 28 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Mount Turner (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 46 km N of Lake Hawea (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Jan–Apr, Nov
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Route centre
- -44.2081, 169.1318
- Route start
- -44.1997, 169.2362
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 21446629
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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