Atley Terrace Hut | Atley Terrace Historic Reserve
A two-room miners’ cottage that’s lined with the 1947 newspaper The Weekly News, which makes interesting reading if you like royalty or forgotten provincial rugby players. Once upon a time, it was quite flash and has an excellent woodburning oven that would have kept the place warm with a timber-lined interior under the wallpaper, old lino over the floorboards. There must have been some gold in the river below.
Now in near derelict condition. A good hut to sleep in your tent outside.
A dam collected water for sluicing operations via a 300 mm-diameter steel pipe that carried it over the terrace edge and down to the Shotover River.
A second, more recent hut has more or less been abandoned. This has four single bedrooms and a good collection of newspapers from 1984 and 1990.
category . . . basic huts/bivvies
hut fee . . . free
booking . . . not required
elevation . . . 490 m
bunks . . . 3 very dusty beds, no mattresses
built . . . 1930s?
heating . . . woodburning oven unusable as chimney flue is disconnected
water . . . from a rivulet 100 m towards the road, or a ten-minute walk each way to a stream
toilet . . . none
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