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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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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
Old bush tramway in low hill country east of Waikanae North: crosses farmland South: Waikanae River and Kaitawa Scenic Reserve protecting previously milled podocarp forest. Streams usually easy to ford Easy, well-formed, suit most ages and fitness levels
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Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 7.3 km · 4.5 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Tararua Range (North Island Mountain Spine; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 7.6 km SE of Te Horo (Kapiti Coast District, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- MW
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- From / to
- Mangaone North Road, Te Horo → Mangaone South Road, Waikanae
- Route centre
- -40.8589, 175.1524
- Route start
- -40.8402, 175.1725
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17794690
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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