• There's always a danger of burning the hut down with an open fireplace. | Cameron Hut, Harpers Pass route, North Canterbury
  • Not sure where the mattresses have gone or whether they will even be replaced. | Cameron Hut, Harpers Pass route, North Canterbury
  • The hut is really starting to show its age. | Cameron Hut, Harper Pass route, North Canterbury
  • Guess this hut has been standing on the river flats here for a long while. | Cameron Hut, Harper Pass route, North Canterbury

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Cameron Hut | Lake Sumner Forest Park

Cameron Hut is from 1955, with plenty of character, ie, the concrete floor doesn’t extend under the bunks where it’s just 60-year-old dirt, there’s a fireplace, and graffiti stretching back in time, hut users from decades past.

Not the most comfortable accommodation when the excellent and refurbished Hurunui No 3 hut is just an hour and a half away.

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category . . . basic hut

hut fee . . . . free

elevation . . . 690 m

bunks . . . 4

built . . . 1955

heating . . . fireplace

water . . . walk to Hurunui River, 80 m

toilet . . . longdrop