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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J18°14°80
- F18°14°78
- M17°13°105
- A15°11°105
- M13°9°144
- J11°8°165
- J10°7°169
- A11°7°155
- S12°8°119
- O13°9°137
- N15°11°107
- D16°12°102
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.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Length (signed)
- 5.2 km · 3.2 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 5.0 km · 3.1 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 7.9 km SE of Eastbourne (Lower Hutt City, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Remutaka Forest Park
- Connects to
- Cattle Ridge Track, Mt Matthews, Papatahi Crossing (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Regional route
- Ref
- OT
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- From / to
- Catchpool → Turere Bridge
- Route centre
- -41.3450, 174.9538
- Route start
- -41.3406, 174.9773
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 11774020
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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