Old Bridge Hut | St James Conservation Area

Don’t think anyone is going to stay at Old Bridge Hut with the dirt floor, wrecked bunks and lack of doors. I

t’s interesting to visit, primarily for the long-forgotten names etched in pencil on the corrugated steel cladding: station hands from 1918, deer cullers from 1942 featuring.

Pool Hut is a short walk away, 10 minutes max.

category . . . abandoned

hut fee . . . free

bunks . . . none serviceable

built . . . late 1800s, sometime

heating . . . none

water . . . a trek to the Waiau River, 150 m away

toilet . . . none