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Wairakau Stream Track
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J23°16°96
- F23°17°110
- M22°15°116
- A19°14°132
- M17°12°146
- J15°10°174
- J14°9°184
- A15°9°163
- S16°10°138
- O17°11°110
- N19°13°108
- D21°15°108
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
After the track road out of Totara North, the trail is T2 with roots and rutted sections; on the approach to Kairara Rock / Dukes Nose, there are two pitches that are secured with metal poles that require scrambling and are T3 classification
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Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Moderate (5/10) (Intermediate · NZ Department of Conservation difficulty (CC BY 4.0))
- Mapped length
- 5.4 km · 3.4 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 9.4 km NW of Kaeo (Far North District, Northland) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Northland
- Continent
- Oceania
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- -35.0222, 173.7265
- Route start
- -35.0335, 173.7193
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17094983
How it’s scored
Moderate (5/10). Official rating: Intermediate · 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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