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Lower Waiohine Track
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J20°12°90
- F20°12°95
- M18°11°104
- A16°9°101
- M13°7°134
- J11°5°156
- J10°4°158
- A11°4°142
- S13°6°127
- O14°7°147
- N16°9°122
- D18°11°124
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 leads from the Waiohine road end to Totara Flats Hut. It is a good overnight trip.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 6.5 km · 4.0 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Moderate (5/10) (Intermediate · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 4 hr and 30 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/e6dc8a65db914c2bad41719cf4a
- Mountain range
- Tararua Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 14 km NW of Carterton (Carterton District, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Tararua Forest Park
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -40.9568, 175.3860
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.
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