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Te Rereatukahia Hut Track
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J19°13°116
- F20°13°122
- M18°12°130
- A16°10°162
- M13°8°155
- J11°6°185
- J10°5°197
- A11°5°178
- S12°6°151
- O14°8°143
- N15°9°130
- D18°11°154
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
Grass clearings and an old fence are a legacy of days gone by when this section was highly modified by burning and farming.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 7.1 km · 4.4 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)
- 3–6 hrs one way
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/b0e4ebc240cc4155afcc459ba51
- Mountain range
- Kaimai Range (GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 9.4 km SW of Katikati (Western Bay of Plenty District, Bay of Plenty) · GeoNames
- Connects to
- North-South Track (at its start or end)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Waikato
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -37.6070, 175.8380
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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