Te Araroa - South Island / Te Waipounamu
The trail is in Marlborough. A 1581 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. It runs from “Ship Cove, Totāranui / Queen Charlotte Sound” to “Stirling Point, Bluff (South Pole - 5,000 km away - might be visible on a clear day)”. Total ascent is about 29411 m. Elevations along the way range from -1 to 1885 m. The trail is waymarked on the ground.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- unpaved — 299.4 km (19%)
- gravel — 244.2 km (15%)
- dirt — 172.2 km (11%)
- asphalt — 164 km (10%)
- paved — 103.3 km (6%)
- other — 16 km (1%)
- grass — 8.4 km (1%)
- not recorded — 589.1 km (37%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S6
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.