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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb · highs 18–18 °C (64–64 °F)
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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
Liverpool Track is in the Matukituki Valley, an hour’s drive west from Wanaka. The track starts at Aspiring Hut which you get to on the West Matukituki Track.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 10 km · 6 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)
- 6 hr 30 min one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/7c42904087f542e39c5341505f6
- Mountain range
- Snowdrift Range (Main Divide of The Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 47 km NW of Wanaka (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Mount Aspiring National Park
- Connects to
- French Ridge Track, West Matukituki Track (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Feb
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.4573, 168.6623
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.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail centreWest Matukituki Track
0.0 mi · 0.0 km · Mount Aspiring National Park
French Ridge Track
0.5 mi · 0.9 km · Mount Aspiring National Park
Cascade Saddle Route
2.5 mi · 3.9 km · Mount Aspiring National Park
Rob Roy Glacier Lookout
3.2 mi · 5.1 km · Otago
Rob Roy Track
4.3 mi · 6.8 km · Otago
East Matukituki Valley tracks
6 mi · 10 km · Otago