Kokoda Trail
Description
- Name Kokoda Trail
- Length of trail 96 km, 60 miles
- Length in days 6 days
- Traildino grading SW, Strenuous walk, mountain trail
- Hut tour grading T2, Mountain walk
Kokoda Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres from coast to coast through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea.
Opinions
Rate
8.0 |
1 vote |
No 1. in Papua New Guinea
- bigkev September 2009
- Rate 8
- Positive History, Jungle scenery, staying in traditional villages and interacting with them, swimming in mountain streams, the challenge.
- Negative The constant slippery mud can be draining, you need to concentrate on the extremely steep slopes, Humidity and rain also knocks some people around.
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Facts
Reports
- The Kokoda Track
Description and photos of an 8 day hike from east to west across the Kokoda Trail
Guides and maps
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Stanfords
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- Kokoda Trail (3-sheet set)
- A set of three maps from the 1:100,000 topographic survey of Papua New Guinea, covering the whole of the famous Kakoda Trail, a 96km route from Owers Corner in (50km east of Port Moresby to Kokoda. The trail is famous as the location of a World War II battle between Japanese and Australian forces in 1942.The three sheets, Port Moresby, Efogi... Read more