Hutt River Trail west other trails nearby (tap a dot to open it)
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
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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
Hutt River Trail west follows the right (west) bank of Te Awa Kairangi (Hutt River) from the mouth to Birchville. At Moonshine Bridge the route crosses the river to use the east route. At Totara Park Bridge the west route returns to the right bank.
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 28 km · 18 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Stream
- Hutt River (GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 2.3 km SW of Lower Hutt (Lower Hutt City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- HRTwst
- Operator (OSM)
- Wellington Regional Concil
- From / to
- Hutt River mouth, Petone → Birchville, Upper Hutt
- Route centre
- -41.1613, 174.9975
- Route start
- -41.2329, 174.8988
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 9373454
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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