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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Nov–Apr · highs 15–20 °C (59–68 °F)
- J19°14°133
- F20°15°131
- M18°13°124
- A16°11°149
- M13°9°205
- J11°7°230
- J11°6°236
- A11°6°212
- S12°7°217
- O13°9°202
- N15°11°176
- D17°13°189
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
- Moderate (5/10) (Intermediate · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 9.3 km · 5.8 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Herangi Range (Western North Island; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 21 km W of Piopio (Waitomo District, Waikato Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Nov–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Waikato
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -38.4179, 174.8036
- Route start
- -38.4316, 174.7776
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17575031
How it’s scored
Moderate (5/10). Official rating: Intermediate · 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.