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Ruakaka Pipeline Road Track
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J21°17°87
- F22°18°82
- M21°17°97
- A19°15°92
- M17°14°116
- J15°12°133
- J14°11°146
- A14°11°129
- S15°11°107
- O17°12°85
- N18°14°84
- D20°16°88
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
Ruakaka Pipeline Road Track is considered suitable for people of most fitness levels. The 3 km track provides back dune access to Bream Bay.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 2.8 km · 1.7 mi (DOC route geometry)
- Source
- NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0)
- Difficulty
- Easy (3/10) (Easy · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Typical time (DOC)
- 1 hr
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/d28be76739c7418b9775aab0822
- Nearest town
- 4.8 km N of Ruakaka (Whangarei, Northland) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Northland
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -35.8673, 174.4674
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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