Cookies Hut | Hakatere Conservation Park

An hour’s ramble downstream from Tribulation Hut, Cookies is from a similar era, but with a few notable differences. It features a new wood burner and flue, as well as a woodshed lean-to, although there isn’t much wood available without a hike.

It’s on piles rather than a concrete slab and slightly smaller.

Fewer people visit Cookies than Tribulation Hut, as it is further from the road. Hunters make up a proportion of visitors to both. Has a horse paddock.

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category . . . basic huts/bivvies

hut fee . . . free

booking . . . not required

elevation . . . 690 m

bunks . . . 6 mattresses on bunks

built . . . 1950s, renovated 2024, new woodburner and flue, painted

heating . . . woodburner

water . . . 50 m walk to Swift River

toilet . . . longdrop

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