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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Aug–Jun · highs 13–20 °C (55–68 °F)
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- F20°19°109
- M20°18°120
- A18°16°133
- M16°15°148
- J15°13°184
- J14°12°207
- A13°12°178
- S14°12°135
- O15°13°113
- N17°15°112
- D18°17°121
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
Located beyond Port Jackson campsite, this stunning coastal walk leaves the Muriwai Hilltop car park and heads along a benched farm track along the ridge towards Wharekaiatua Pa.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 4.5 km · 2.8 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 2 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/b8d32825213144d8ab3928201a6
- Mountain range
- Moehau Range (Coromandel Range; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 20 km NW of Colville (Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Port Jackson Recreation Reserve
- Best months
- Aug–Jun
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Waikato
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -36.4772, 175.3628
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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