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Three Mile Pack Track - Ōkārito Coastal Walk
Next nearby hike: Te Ara A Waiau 12 mi · 19 kmExplore Westland National Park/Tai Poutini National Park →
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J17°14°388
- F18°14°308
- M16°13°395
- A15°11°340
- M13°9°344
- J11°7°339
- J10°6°279
- A11°7°314
- S12°8°390
- O13°9°414
- N14°10°394
- D16°12°446
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
Walk through forest then down to Three Mile Lagoon, a sheltered estuary. Walking along the beach is only recommended within one hour each side of low tide.
NZ Department of Conservation (CC BY 4.0).
Trail facts
- Length
- 3.0 km · 1.9 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)
- 3 hr 30 min
- Official page
- doc.govt.nz/link/4ab2cf2c03cd4898b928d9525e6
- Nearby park
- Westland National Park/Tai Poutini National Park (0.05 km from the boundary)
- Nearest town
- 31 km NE of Waikowhai (Westland District, West Coast) · GeoNames
- Country
- New Zealand
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route centre
- -43.2392, 170.1258
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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