Diggers Hut | Glenaray Station, Southland
Few visitors stay in this Depression-era gold miner’s hut, complete with a dirt floor and hessian sacking wall linings.
It’s a lovely location at the junction of two small streams that converge to form the Waikaia River.
There’s a fireplace, but no obvious supply of wood, as it is in a treeless grassland.
It was added to in the 1970s or 80s, with a workshop that still has some mining paraphernalia.
The earliest graffiti spotted was from 1942.
category . . . private hut, public can use
hut fee . . . free
booking . . . not required
elevation . . . 1035 m
bunks . . . 2 mattresses on bunks
built . . . pre-1942
heating . . . open fire, bring your own wood
water . . . 20 m to stream
toilet . . . longdrop
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