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Lower Tīmaru River Track
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct–Apr · highs 12–19 °C (54–66 °F)
- J19°11°103
- F19°11°73
- M16°9°103
- A13°6°85
- M9°3°98
- J4°0°102
- J3°-2°84
- A5°0°91
- S9°2°101
- O12°4°116
- N15°7°103
- D17°9°132
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
This track follows the lower section of Tīmaru River. It can be walked as a day loop with Tīmaru High River Track, and it gives access to Breast Hill Track for longer tramps.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 7.3 km · 4.5 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)
- 3 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/65b3008667ab4e9c81ef9ad6170
- Mountain range
- Mount Melina (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 12 km NE of Lake Hawea (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Oct–Apr
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.5299, 169.3629
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.