Historic Huts, DOC Huts & Backcountry Shelters I have visited

		Here in New Zealand we have a network of over 1200 back country huts that we can use for a minimal charge. Most of these are administered by the Department of Conservation while others are owned by hunting/fishing/MTB/alpine clubs.   Here is a complete list of the back country huts/shelters I have visited: North Island  I lived in the North Island in the late 1980's and early 1990's while serving in the New Zealand Army. While there I visited the following huts: Army Training Ground (ATG) Waiouru Bobs Hut, Westlawn Hut (Historic)   Panekire Hut, Te Urewera National Park Hihitahi Forest Sanctuary Zekes Hut   Kaimaniwa Range Comet Hut, Waipakihi Hut Tongariro National Park ATC Snowsports Lodge, Blyth Hut, Glacier Hut, Hutt Valley Tramping Club Lodge,  Lupton Hut Rimutaka Forest Park Baine-Iti Hut, Boar Inn, Jans Hut, Haurangi Hut, Mac's Hut, Papatahi Hut, Paua Hut, Raukawa Lodge, Waerenga Hut  Great Walk Huts: North Island Tongariro National Park Tongariro Northern Circuit Ketetahi Hut, Mangetepopo Hut, Outere Hut,  Waihohonu Hut No. 1 (Historic), Waihohonu Hut No. 2 (old) Ketetahi Hut, Tongariro NP Te Urewera National Park Lake Waikeremoana Great Walk  Maraunui Staff Hut, Marauiti Hut, Panekire Hut, Te Puna Hut, Waiharuru Hut, Waiopaoa Hut,  Whanganui Hut  Whanganui National Park Whanganui River Journey Downes Hut, John Coull Hut, Wakahoro Bunkroom John Coull Hut in Wanganui NP As part of my tramp of the Te Araroa Trail I hope to visit huts from near Hamilton right down to the Tararua's. I am also interested in doing more tramping in the Tararuas, Kaweka's, Ruahines and Kaimaniwa Forest Park as time allows.  South Island Most of my tramping is done in the South Island so the majority of the huts I have visited are also there:  Abel Tasman National Park (non Great Walk) I have now visited every backcountry hut in the park:  Awapoto Hut, Castle Rock Hut, Holyoake Clearing Shelter, Marahau Shelter (DOC), Moa Park Shelter Hut, Pigeon Saddle Roadman's Hut (Historic), Rollo Wilkinsons Hut, Wainui Hut Marahau Shelter, Abel Tasman NP Kahurangi National Park (non Great Walk) Blue Shirt Creek Hut, Chaffey's Hut, Cobb Hut, Cobb Ridge Information Shelter, Cobb Tent Camp, Fenella Hut, Kohaihai Shelter, Mytton Hut, Sylvester Hut, Trilobite Hut   Arthurs Pass National Park Arthurs Pass NP is my home park and I have probably visited around 60% of the huts there: Andrews Shelter, Anti Crow Hut, Avalanche Creek Shelter, Carrington Hut, Casey Hut (Old), Casey Hut No.2, Crow Hut, Dillon Hut, Dillon Homestead Hut, East Hawdon Bivouac, Edwards Hut, Greyney's Shelter, Hallelujah Bivvy, Hawdon Bivy (DOC), Hawdon Hut No. 2, Hawdon Hut (Old), Hawdon Shelter, Jacks Hut, Kelly Shelter, Kidson Hut, Klondyke Shelter, Lockwood Shelter, Page Memorial Shelter, Paterson Hut, Poulter Stout Trappers Hut, Riversdale Hut (Pastoral Lease), Seven Mile Creek Hut, Trust-Poulter Hut Standard DOC hut sign...this one is for Carrington Hut Lochinvar Forest Conservation Area Turnbull Bivouac  Korowai/Torlesse Tussocklands Park Benmore Hut, John Hayward Memorial Hut, Lake Lyndon Shelter, Porters Pass Roadman's Hut (Historic)    Craigieburn Conservation Park Avoca Homestead, Avoca Station Hut, Bealey Hut, Bealey Spur Hut, Broken River Hut, Castle Hill Roadman's Cottage, Craigieburn Camp Shelter, Craigieburn Road Hut, Lagoon Saddle A Frame Hut, Lagoon Saddle Hut, Petticoat Railway Junction Bealey Spur Hut, Craigieburn Conservation Park Canterbury Foothills  Coopers Creek Hut, Jim Adams Memorial Hut (YHA Hut), Possumer's Hut, Townshend Hut (2nd), Townshend Hut (Main), Wharfedale Hut North Canterbury Black Hills Station Cob Cottage Black Hills Cob Cottage, Huranui Port Hills Lighthouse Generator Hut, Pioneer Women's Memorial Shelter, Scotts Hut (the Cabin), Sign of the Bellbird, Sign of the Kiwi Banks Peninsula I have now visited every backcountry hut on the Peninsula: Horomaka Island Hut, Josef Langer Lodge,  Monument Shelter Hut, Mt Herbert Shelter, Omahu Bush Hut (Pastoral lease), Otamahua/Quail Island Hut, Packhorse Hut, Packhorse Bivouac, Rod Donald Hut, Quail Island Shelter Packhorse Biv, Banks Peninsula Banks Peninsula Track (Banks Track) Onuku Hut, Flea Bay Hut, Stony Bay Hut Hakatere Conservation Park Lake Emma Hut (Historic), Manuka Hut, Pinnacles Hut, Sharplin Falls Campsite Shelter, Woolshed Creek Hut Nelson Lakes National Park  Angelus Hut II, Blechynden Shelter, Bluelake Hut, Bushedge Shelter, Bushline Hut, Coldwater Hut, Cupola Hut, Hopeless Hut, Howard Hut, John Tait Hut, Kea Hut (NSC), Lakehead Hut, Lake Rotoroa Shelter, Maud Hut, Maude Valley Hut, Mt Robert Carpark Shelter, Prospect/Robert Ridge Shelter, Relax Shelter, Robert Ridge Skifield Hut, Speargrass Hut (Old), Speargrass Hut No. 2, Sabine Hut (Old), Sabine Hut No. 2, Upper Travers Hut No. 2, Upper Travers Hut (Old), West Sabine Hut, West Sabine Hut (Old) Speargrass Hut, Nelson Lakes NP Nelson/Tasman Area Farewell Spit Keepers House, NSG Hut (Takaka Hill) Marlborough Sounds Nydia Lodge Marlborough Area - Molesworth Recreation Reserve Acheron Rangers Hut, Cobb Cottage DOC Staff Hut, Connors Creek Hut, Dip Flat Hut, Hellfire Hut, Island Gully Hut, Sedgemere Chalet, Sedgemere Sleepout Mt Richmond Forest Park Bills Kayak Shack (Pastoral Lease), Kahikatea Flat Shelter Queen Charlotte Track  (QCT) Anikiwa Watertaxi Shelter, Camp Bay Shelter, Bay of Many Coves Shelter, Black Rocks Shelter, Cowshed Bay Shelter 1, Cowshed Bay Shelter 2, Davies Bay Shelter Coldwater Hut, Nelson Lakes National Park Lewis Pass Scenic Reserve Blackadder Rest, Cannibal Gorge Hut, Kohanga Atawhai/Manson Nichols Hut, Lewis Pass Shelter, Manson-Nicholls Memorial Hut (old), Thompson Flat Hut, Wilderness Lands Company Hut Nina/Doubtful Valley Conservation Area Nina Hut No. 2, Nina Hut (old), NZDA Palmer Lodge Lake Sumner Forest Park Boyle Base Hut (Forest & Bird), Boyle Base Hut (old), Camerons Hut, Harper Pass Bivy, Hope Halfway Hut, Hope-Kiwi Hut, Hurunui Hut, Magdalen Hut No.2, Magdalen Hut (old), No, 3 Hut,  Three Mile Stream, Windy Point Shelter Boyle Base Hut (Forest and Bird), Lake Sumner St James Conservation Reserve Ada Pass Hut, Anne Cullers Hut, Anne Hut No. 2, Anne Hut (old), Boyle Flat Hut, Caroline Creek Bivouac, Christopher (Ada) Cullers Hut, Christopher Hut, Fowlers Hut, Muddy Stream Bivouac, Rokeby Hut, St James Homestead Cottage   Big River Ecological Area Big River Hut, Waiuta Lodge  Victoria Forest Park Lake Christabel Hut, Mid Robinson Hut, Palmer Hut, Top Robinson Hut Approaching Mid Robinson Hut, Victoria Forest Park Mt Cook National Park Ball Shelter Hut, Hooker Hut, Mueller Hut No. 4, Stocking Stream Shelter, Unwin Lodge, White Horse Campsite Shelter Mid Canterbury: Ashburton Lakes/Two Thumbs Range/Tekapo Limestone Cottage, Telephone Hut  South Canterbury Cotons Cob Cottage, Tristam Harper Memorial Shelter Otago Baldersons Cottage, Charlies Hut, Doctors Point Huts, Mitchells Cottage, Rum Curries Hut, Sam Summers Hut, South Temple Hut, Wattie Thompson's Hut, Trotters Gorge (OUTC) Hut Trotters Gorge (OUTC) Hut, Otago Catlins- South Otago Nugget Point Lighthouse Keepers House, Waipapa Point Shelter Mt Aspiring NP Pleasant Flat Campsite Shelter, Cameron Creek Shelter Caples-Greenstone Conservation Reserve McKellar Hut, McKellar Lodge  South Island: Northern East Coast Cregan Hut, Kowhai Hut, Mt Fyffe Hut, Top Hut, Skull Peak Shelter Mt Fyffe Hut, Seaward Kaikoura Range North Westland- West Coast; north of Grey River Taramakau Bus Stop Shelter, Kelly Creek Shelter, Kiwi Hut, Locke Stream Hut,  Meikles Hut, Taveners Hut  Roaring Meg Ecological Area Garden Gully Bivouac (Historic), Garden Gully Bivouac (Replica), Garden Gully Hut, Croesus Top Hut (Historic) South Westland- West Coast; south of Grey River Blue River (Blowfly) Hut, Coppermine Creek Hut, Cape Defiance Hut (historic), Hendes Hut (historic), Joe's Hut, Lake Ianthe Camp Shelter, Maori Saddle Hut, Ross Water Race Hut, Wineberry Hut Ross Water Race Hut, Westland NP Southland Lower Pinchester Hut  Fiordland National Park: Non Great Walk  Homer Hut, Shallow Bay Hut, Te Anau Downs Stockman's Hut Great Walk Huts: South Island Kahurangi National Park Heaphy Track, Kahurangi NP:  Aorere Shelter, Brown Hut, Brown River Shelter,  Gouland Downs Hut, Heaphy Camp Shelter, Heaphy Hut No. 3, Heaphy Hut No. 4, James Mackay Hut, James McKay Hut No. 2,  James MacKay Camp Shelter, Katipo Shelter, Kohaihai Shelter, Lewis Hut No. 3, Lewis Shelter, Perry Saddle Hut No. 2, Perry Saddle Hut No. 3,  Saxon Hut Saxon Hut, Heaphy Track, Kahurangi NP Abel Tasman National Park Abel Tasman Coastal Track, Abel Tasman NP: Anchorage Hut (old), Anchorage Hut (new), Awaroa Hut, Bark Bay Hut, Onetahuti Beach Shelter, Totaranui Great Walk Shelter, Whariwharangi Hut Bark Bay Hut, Coastal Track, Abel Tasman NP Fiordland National Park Milford Track, Fiordland NP: Beech Hut (historic), Boatshed Shelter, Bus Stop Shelter, Clinton Hut, Dumpling Hut, Giants Gate Shelter, Glade House, Hirere Shelter, MacKinnon Pass Hut, Mintaro Hut, Pillens Hut,  Pompolona Lodge, Prairie Shelter, Quinton Day Shelter, Quinton Lodge, Robert Allen Hut, Sandfly Point Shelter Clinton Hut, Milford Track, Fiordland NP Kepler Track, Fiordland NP: Brod Bay Shelter, Forest Burn Shelter, Hanging Valley Shelter, Iris Burn Hut, Luxmore Hut, Moutaru Hut, Rocky Point Shelter, Rocky Point Workcamp Hut Routeburn Track, Fiordland/Mt Aspiring NP: The Divide Shelter, Harris Shelter, Howdon Hut, Lake MacKenzie Hut, Lake MacKenzie Lodge, Routeburn Flats Hut, Routeburn Falls Hut, Routeburn Falls Lodge, Routeburn Shelter Howdon Hut, Routeburn Track, Fiordland NP Humpridge Great Walk, Fiordland NP: (from 2022): Port Craig Schoolhouse, Humpridge Track Paparoa National Park Paparoa/Pike 29 Track, Paparoa NP: Ces Clarke Hut, Moonlight Tops Hut, Pike Escarpment Shelter, Pororairi Hut, Pororari River Staff Hut  Pororari River Staff Hut, Paparoa NP Rakuria National Park Rakuria Track, Rakuria NP: Maori Beach Shelter, Port William Hut, Port William Camp Shelter, North Arm Hut, North Arm Camp Shelter Port William Hut, Rakuira NP Rakuria/Stewart Island Rakuira National Park Ulva Island Biodiversity Hut, Rakuira Track Biodiversity Bivy Rakuira Track Biodiversity Bivy Rakuria Northern Circuit, Rakuria NP: Rakuira Southern Circuit: Rakuira NP:
		Total number of huts/shelters visited:339 (October 2023)