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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Moderate (5/10) (Intermediate · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Length (signed)
- 55 km · 34 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 51 km · 32 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- West Coast
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Operator (OSM)
- DOC
- From / to
- Blackball → Punakaiki
- Route centre
- -42.2222, 171.3988
- Route start
- -42.3375, 171.3982
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 10462885
- Wikidata
- Q60761090
How it’s scored
Moderate (5/10). Official rating: Intermediate · 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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