Waikanae River Loop other trails nearby (tap a dot to open it)
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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)About this trail
With the estuary, a nationally significant area. Birds use it to travel between the Tararua’s and Kapiti. It winds beside established willows, recent plantings, lagoons and has wide gravel paths suitable for wheelchairs, buggies, and families.
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Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 9.5 km · 5.9 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Wellington
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Ref
- WRL
- Operator (OSM)
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- From / to
- Otaihanga Domain → Otaihanga Domain
- Route centre
- -40.8803, 175.0405
- Route start
- -40.8777, 175.0182
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19135701
- Official info
- wellingtonnz.com/visit/trails/waikanae-river-tra
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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