• A bleak place to stay in winter. | Garden Gully Hut, Oteake Conservation Park
  • Not sure where the gold is here. | Garden Gully Hut, Oteake Conservation Park
  • The old chimney lies on the ground. | Garden Gully Hut, Oteake Conservation Park
  • Not many stay these days. | Garden Gully Hut, Oteake Conservation Park
  • The stone helps protect from the wind. | Garden Gully Hut, Oteake Conservation Park

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Green Gully Hut | Oteake Conservation Park

Built by one brother who helped construct the nearby Brown Hut around 1949. It seems little gold was found in the area. A similar manuka sapling frame structure is held together with Number 8 wire, but south and west elevations are stacked schist with mud filling some gaps. Has a dirt floor.

Many remnants from the mining days remain.

Few would choose to stay in this dusty hut.

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category . . . basic huts/bivvies

hut fee . . . free

elevation . . . 1065 m

bunks . . . 3 beds, no mattresses

built . . . ~1949

heating . . . open fire. No firewood around so bring your own

water . . . 20 m walk to rivulet

toilet . . . none