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Pisa Range Ridge Track
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Jan–Feb · highs 11–11 °C (52–52 °F)
- J11°2°116
- F11°2°85
- M8°0°124
- A6°-2°97
- M2°-4°102
- J-1°-6°98
- J-2°-7°88
- A-1°-7°92
- S2°-6°95
- O4°-4°117
- N6°-2°107
- D9°0°140
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
Access Mt Pisa and other Pisa Conservation Area tracks.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 21 km · 13 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Moderate (5/10) (Intermediate · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 10 hr one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/0e4b10bda463415d906c5292382
- Mountain range
- Pisa Range (Inland Southern Alps › Southern Alps; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 17 km E of Cardrona (Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Pisa Conservation Area
- Connects to
- Pt 1,444 Trig (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Jan–Feb
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -44.8500, 169.2140
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.
Nearest trails
distance from the trail centrePt 1,444 Trig
0.0 mi · 0.0 km · Pisa Conservation Area
Locharburn Track
2.9 mi · 4.7 km · Pisa Conservation Area
Tinwald Burn Ridge Track
3.2 mi · 5.1 km · Otago
Kirtle Burn Track
4.5 mi · 7.3 km · Pisa Conservation Area
Little Criffel Track
7 mi · 11 km · Otago
Cardrona-Cromwell Pack Track
9 mi · 14 km · Pisa Conservation Area