
Harper Pass Route
The print
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About the Harper Pass Route trail
Spanning 3.8 miles in Arthur's Pass National Park, Harper Pass Route climbs 1,558 feet in total, from a low of 1,636 feet to a high of 3,202 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 42 percent, against an average of 410 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the moderately strenuous band. The nearest town is Greymouth, 37 miles away.
The trail
Harper Pass (elevation 962 metres or 3,156 feet), previously known as Hurunui Pass or sometimes Taramakau Pass, is an alpine pass between Canterbury and the West Coast in New Zealand. It was the most important crossing for Māori to obtain pounamu.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Harper Passmi 3.0
- Harper Pass Bivvymi 3.8
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.