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Port FitzRoy: Kaiaraara Hut side tracks
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J19°18°90
- F20°18°100
- M19°18°110
- A18°16°116
- M16°15°134
- J15°13°163
- J14°12°192
- A13°12°166
- S14°12°124
- O15°13°96
- N16°15°101
- D18°16°100
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
These tracks all start from Kaiaraara Hut, a short distance from the end of Kaiaraara Bay Road, near Port FitzRoy.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 12 km · 8 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Hard (7/10) (Advanced · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- Various: 35 min - 4 hr one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/77e0059a9b254ea09756c34826c
- Mountain range
- Herekohu Range (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 49 km N of Colville (Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Aotea Conservation Park
- Connects to
- Kaiaraara Track to Mt Hobson (Hirakimata), Windy Canyon and Palmer's Track to Mt Hobson (Hirakimata) (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -36.2035, 175.3616
How it’s scored
Hard (7/10). Official rating: Advanced · 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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