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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Feb–Mar · highs 17–18 °C (63–64 °F)
- J18°13°221
- F18°13°155
- M17°12°195
- A15°10°220
- M13°9°253
- J11°7°276
- J10°6°262
- A11°6°231
- S12°7°296
- O13°8°304
- N15°10°268
- D17°12°284
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
Extend the Moria Gate Loop short walk and experience ancient native forest on a longer walk.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 8.5 km · 5.3 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easiest, Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 5 hr one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/50a708d0f40546c9b2c7b55ccd2
- Mountain range
- Domett Range (Northwest Ranges; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 64 km SW of Takaka (Tasman District) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Kahurangi National Park
- Connects to
- Adams Flat Track, Fenian Caves Track (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Feb–Mar
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- West Coast
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -41.1936, 172.1910
How it’s scored
Easy (3/10). Official rating: Easiest, 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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