• Doc style bunks for 12 people (6 in each room)
• Mattresses.
• Kitchen bench, sink, table with stool type benches.
• Wood/coal burner
• 4 ring gas cooker 
• Drop toilet (away from the building behind the wood store).
• Drinking water via tap inside hut (comes from a stream well up behind the hut) 
• LED solar powered lighting to reduce the fire risk.
• USB charging point - bring your own cable
• Axe and saw.
• Plates, cups, glasses, knives and forks and cooking utensils.
• Frying pans, plenty of cooking pots, large sized stock pot, medium and small saucepans, a skillet for meat, a cast iron ‘dutch oven’ and a “yoyo” yogurt maker
• Meat safe (for hunters)
• Pantry (with emergency food often left behind)
• Shower - gravity fed (heat the water on the fire) 
• Wood shed - usually with wood in it

Internet 

The Mid Greenstone Hut is equipped with WiFi, provided to support important conservation efforts in the valley.

The connection powers our AI-driven trap line, ensuring native species like the kea are protected by accurately identifying pest animals. While staying at the hut, you can also access the WiFi for personal use.

Please note that WiFi access requires payment by Paypal or credit / debit card. 

By booking and staying with us, you’re contributing to the Southern Lakes NZDA’s mission to preserve New Zealand’s unique natural heritage. Thank you for supporting this vital work!

The Mid Greenstone NZDA Hut is tucked away beside bush line not far from the Ultimate Hikes Guided Walks Lodge.
There are NO SIGNPOSTS to the hut so it is a good idea to print off the directions and or maps, especially if you are arriving after dark

Directions from Steele Creek or McKellar Hut

After literally a few metres from crossing the swing bridge at Steele Creek, there is an old track that goes uphill on the left. Take this track. It is not signposted but follows a stoat trap line.  A little way along this track, the orange track markers on the trees will appear (as it is the old Greenstone Track) and after around 15 minutes will take you all the way to the hut. There are also some old white/red permolat markers on trees. These are especially helpful where slips have washed over the track.

Directions from the Glenorchy side
After about an hour after the DOC Greenstone Hut, you get to the open flats and there is a DOC sign on the right of the path saying something about “cattle and not to disturb them.” Continue along these flats – the wind blows quite hard here in the afternoons, the river is on your left. After crossing the rock slip (it’s quite a recent one with few plants growing on it and it’s right next to the river) continue for about another 10-15 mins and you get to a small boggy area with stepping stones through it, count 2 orange poles and the main path very slightly climbs up to a hump (about the height of a room) and heads nearer the bushline than it has for a while. There is another orange marker pole – this one has additional electrical tape round the orange part of it. TURN RIGHT HERE

Head up the gully to the right from this pole, cross the dried up stream. There is no obvious path at this point. Just head towards the trees and then you should see the uphill path and/or markers on the trees. The path is marked with the odd tin can lid on a tree and orange markers on the trees, climbing up quite steep at first with a tiny switch back. Keep on the edge of the tree line and follow a track to get to the hut. The last bit is all uphill but it should only take 20 mins from where you turned off the main track at the orange pole.

If you do miss the orange marker and the gully to walk up, the main track heads nearer the river, so look back and to the right and you can see the hut up the hill on the edge of the trees. Failing that, if you get to the Ultimate Hikes Guided Walks lodge, you are in Steele Creek and gone too far. See directions above to take from Steele Creek to the hut.