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Ōtaki River Trail
In Otaki River
Next nearby hike: Mangaone Walkway 6.2 mi · 9.9 kmExplore Otaki River →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J19°14°100
- F19°15°98
- M18°13°103
- A16°12°107
- M14°10°127
- J12°8°160
- J11°8°152
- A12°8°137
- S13°9°138
- O14°10°155
- N15°11°130
- D17°13°145
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
Generally considered an easy route
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 3.9 km · 2.4 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Stream
- Otaki River (GeoNames)
- Nearest town
- 1.4 km S of Otaki (Kapiti Coast District, Wellington Region) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- ŌRT
- From / to
- Main Highway, Ōtaki → Ōtaki Beach
- Route centre
- -40.7625, 175.1257
- Route start
- -40.7699, 175.1446
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19135827
- Official info
- wellingtonnz.com/visit/trails/otaki-river-trail
How it’s scored
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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