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Goldsborough (Shamrock) Track
Next nearby hike: Goldsborough short walks 1.4 mi · 2.2 kmExplore Shamrock Creek Amenity Area →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J18°11°334
- F19°12°262
- M17°10°289
- A14°8°293
- M12°6°295
- J9°3°324
- J9°2°253
- A10°3°280
- S12°5°337
- O13°6°378
- N15°8°323
- D17°10°409
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
Walk through an historic gold mining area with mining tunnels, dams, sluice faces, tailings and water-races.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 4.9 km · 3.0 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)
- 4 hr one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/c142d4e929ca45e9830013cae8a
- Nearest town
- 15 km E of Hokitika (Westland District, West Coast) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Shamrock Creek Amenity Area
- Connects to
- Goldsborough short walks (at its start or end)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- West Coast
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -42.6822, 171.1494
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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