• The exterior walls are constructed from nearby fallen trees. | Chaffey Hut, Kahurangi National Park
  • The fireplace grill is intended to stop the hut burning down. | Chaffey Hut, Kahurangi National Park
  • Much of the interior is constructed from local materials. | Chaffey Hut, Kahurangi National Park
  • You can't quite pick up the slope on the floor here, but it is considerable. | Chaffey Hut, Kahurangi National Park

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Chaffey Hut | Kahurangi National Park

Chaffey Hut is a quirky historic hut that was completely rebuilt in 2014. Quirky as in the bush-hewn log cabin structure and the zany 350 mm intentional slope across the floor, and the hut ain’t big. Most of the timber for the hut reconstruction was taken from windfalls in the area.

Yeah, it has buckets of character that ain’t so common in your standard, more modern DOC hut.

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category . . . basic hut

hut fee . . . free

booking . . . not required

elevation . . . 890 m

bunks . . . 4 mattresses

built . . . 1952-3, rebuilt 2014

heating . . . open fire

water . . . from Cobb River, 40 m

toilet . . . longdrop