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Home Hill Hut

Otago · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Basic two-bunk DOC hut at 1007 m in the Greenstone and Caples Conservation Areas (Otago, near Queenstown). Likely a former shepherd's shelter. Open fireplace for heating, water from the stream.

Off-season beds
2

Getting there

No marked track: reached from the Caples Track at Old Birchdale Homestead, climbing the Home Hill spur and skirting east above Reid's Creek. Free access. NZTopo50 CB09 coordinates: E1227386, N5015508.

The setting

Greenstone and Caples Conservation Areas (Otago), South Island. Pastoral heritage.

What you'll find

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Good to know

pit latrine