Facilities
Heating, Mattresses, Toilets - flush, Water from tap - not treated, boil before use, Water supply
Fees and bookings
Fees
Prices are per person, per night. NZ rates are for New Zealand visitors and INT rates are for international visitors.
Huts
Date range
Adult NZ
18 + years
Adult INT
18+ years
Child NZ
5 to 17 years
Child INT
0 to 17 years
Infant NZ
0 to 4 years
1 October – 30 April
$55
$84
$28
$42
Free
1 May – 30 June
$42
$42
$21
$21
Free
1 July – 31 August
$33
$33
$17
$17
Free
1 - 30 September
$42
$42
$21
$21
Free
is required for the New Zealand rate.
Backcountry Hut Passes and Backcountry Hut Tickets cannot be used at this hut.
Bookings
Heritage
Built around 1896, this historic hut was restored in 1980 by the Abel Tasman Park Board. They made significant modifications and it is now available as a tramping hut.
Originally created as a farmhouse, Whariwharangi Hut was built by John Handcock who lived in the valley with his family for 15 years.
Whariwharangi was last inhabited in 1926, but farmed until 1972. During this later period the homestead served as a stockmans hut. The farms in this northern end of the Park, although the last to be retired, eventually succumbed to the impoverished granite soils.
Historic themes are pastoralism and farming. Many farms in this area had to be abandoned, and this is a notable reminder of that era and changing land use.
It's a conventional timber framed one and a half storey building, rectangular in plan. The gable roof is clad in corrugated iron, and the exterior walls are weather-board. It has a full-length veranda on the front, a full-length lean-to along the rear, and two brick chimneys; windows are double hung.
The ground floor has a central passage with a bunkroom and storage room on one side and a large main room on the other. Upstairs there are two smaller bunkrooms. There are 20 bunks in total. The interior of the hut has many original features including a built-in staircase and timber wall panelling.
