Upper Oreti Hut | Eyre Mountain/ Taka Ra Haka Conservation Park
Upper Oreti Hut is an old musterers’ hut, pre-1930s, although a small patch of Illustrated Magazine wallpaper dates from 1938. Some wall graffiti is from 1971, 1962, 1960.
It’s a generous six-bunk hut with a massive fireplace. You need to bring your firewood in, or walk a fair way up the hill to forage for your own. Plenty of room, and not many DOC huts have a comfy couch to lounge on.
It looks out across the Oreti Valley to the west, so it gets excellent afternoon sun.
If you have a four-wheel-drive, you can use mechanical transportation to get there with just one stream crossing, but you need a key for a gate.
The former sheep pasture is now in the Eyre Mountain/ Taka Ra Haka Conservation Park.
category . . . basic huts/bivvies
hut fee . . . free
booking . . . not required
elevation . . . 580 m
bunks . . . 6 mattresses on bunks
built . . . pre-1930s
heating . . . open fire
water . . . from pipe, 30 m on track to north
toilet . . . longdrop
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