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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J21°13°81
- F21°13°90
- M20°12°84
- A17°10°84
- M14°8°108
- J12°6°130
- J11°5°129
- A12°5°116
- S14°7°128
- O15°8°129
- N17°10°103
- D19°12°113
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
Walk through native bush, enjoy scenic views and experience native wildlife only a short distance from Palmerston North.
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Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Length (signed)
- 11 km · 7 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Gorge
- Manawatu Gorge (GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 2.2 km SE of Ashhurst (Palmerston North City, Manawatu-Wanganui) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Manawatū-Whanganui
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Ref
- MtuGrg
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- Route centre
- -40.3237, 175.7928
- Route start
- -40.3080, 175.7677
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 9442128
- Official info
- doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/ma
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easy · 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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