Bullendale Hut | Mount Aurum Recreation Reserve
If you haven’t ventured up there yet, and you should, it’s more of a mission than DOC’s 2 to 3 hours indicates. Plenty of stream crossing, and eventually you go straight up the stream.
The hut is a reminder of what was once a mining camp housing 200 people. Only the foundation stones of the stamping battery remain.
Despite looking like an original structure, the hut was reconstructed from abandoned materials in 2002 with a sleeping platform installed. The wood-burning oven has since been removed, and it has an open fire, although it’s not clear where the wood should come from.
The studs are beech saplings, but the roof structure is more recent, even if the corrugated steel is not.
category . . . standard hut
hut fee . . . 1 hut ticket or backcountry hut pass, free to camp
booking . . . not required
elevation . . . m
bunks . . . 3 mattresses on a sleeping platform that could accommodate another mattress
built . . . reconstructed from old materials 2002
heating . . . woodburner
water . . . 500 litre rainwater tank
toilet . . . longdrop
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