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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)About this trail
1 of 4 classics links Otaki and Tauherenikau catchments. Originally from Otaki Forks to Wairarapa Plains and now the Kaitoke Basin. It was popularised from the 1920s by the Tararua Tramping and other clubs in the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa.
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 36 km · 22 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- National route
- Ref
- TarSC
- Operator (OSM)
- Department of Conservation
- Route centre
- -40.9717, 175.2637
- Route start
- -40.8718, 175.2305
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 6594628
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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