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Government Track
In Maungatua
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NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0) · OpenStreetMap · Official page · Basemap: OpenFreeMap (OpenMapTiles, © OSM contributors).
7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Sep–May · highs 11–19 °C (52–66 °F)
- J19°10°85
- F18°10°78
- M16°8°75
- A14°6°63
- M11°4°77
- J8°2°66
- J7°1°70
- A9°2°59
- S12°3°60
- O14°5°75
- N16°7°67
- D17°9°97
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 or mountain bike the Government Track which traverses the slopes of the beech-and mānuka-forested Waipori Valley.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 5.7 km · 3.5 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 30 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/39d1abb9178f4ab7ae90b7f261b
- Mountain range
- Maungatua (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 17 km W of Outram (Dunedin City, Otago) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Waipori Falls Scenic Reserve (Pt)
- Best months
- Sep–May
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -45.9178, 170.0288
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.