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Gold Creek Ridge Track
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct–Apr · highs 12–18 °C (54–64 °F)
- J18°8°106
- F18°9°106
- M16°7°115
- A13°5°115
- M10°3°115
- J7°1°142
- J7°0°164
- A7°0°130
- S10°2°124
- O12°3°118
- N14°5°105
- D16°7°120
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
This track follows a long gentle ridge to the Gold Creek Hut.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 3.8 km · 2.4 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)
- 3-4 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/0fee0a2d13ff46fa8ddf1d645db
- Mountain range
- Ruahine Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 32 km NW of Takapau (Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Ruahine Forest Park
- Connects to
- Sparrowhawk Track (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Oct–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Hawke's Bay
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -39.7655, 176.2020
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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