Hut categories: facilities and fees
Introduction
DOC provides facilities and charges fees based on the category of the hut.Each hut is unique but the facilities and services provided in or near huts are divided into six categories:
- Great Walks huts
- Individually priced huts (including Serviced alpine huts)
- Serviced huts
- Standard huts
- Basic huts/bivvies
- Club huts.
The fees listed here apply to most huts in each category, but check individual huts as prices might vary.
Some hut fees and age categories changed on 1 July 2023. See DOC accommodation price changes 2023/2024 for more details.
Age ranges for fees
- Adult: 18+ years
- Child/youth: 5–17 years
- Infant: 0–4 years
Great Walks huts
Great Walk Huts are the most comfortable. They have mattresses, water supply, toilets, hand washing facilities and heating with fuel available. They may have solar lighting, cooking facilities with fuel and a hut warden.
There is differential pricing for international visitors, as well as seasonal pricing. Check individual hut pages for fees.
Individually priced huts
This category of huts covers those popular huts and Serviced alpine huts that have individual fees. The fees are not solely based on the hut standards or levels of service.
Fees: Prices vary – check individual hut pages for fees.
Northland huts
Waikato and Coromandel huts
- Pahautea Hut
- Pinnacles Hut – Kauaeranga Kauri Trail
- Crosbies Hut
Bay of Plenty huts
Te Urewera huts
- Panekire Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Waiopaoa Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Marauiti Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Waiharuru Hut (outside Great Walks season)
Hawkes Bay huts
Wairarapa huts
Nelson huts
- Angelus Hut
- Blue Lake Hut
- John Tait Hut
- Lakehead Hut
- Sabine Hut
- Speargrass Hut
- Upper Travers Hut
- West Sabine Hut
- Anchorage Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Bark Bay Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Awaroa Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Brown Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Perry Saddle Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Gouland Downs Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Saxon Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- James MacKay Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Heaphy Hut (outside Great Walks season)
West Coast huts
Canterbury huts
Otago huts
- Daleys Flat Hut
- Dart Hut
- Greenstone Hut
- McKellar Hut
- Mid Caples Hut
- Shelter Rock Hut
- Siberia Hut
- Routeburn Falls Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Routeburn Flats Hut (outside Great Walks season)
Fiordland huts
- Luxmore Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- Lake MacKenzie Hut (outside Great Walks season)
Rakiura/Stewart Island huts
- Port William Hut (outside Great Walks season)
- North Arm Hut (outside Great Walks season)
Serviced alpine huts
- Almer Hut
- Aspiring Hut
- Barron Saddle Hut
- Brewster Hut
- Centennial Hut
- Colin Todd Hut
- Chancellor Hut
- Empress Hut
- French Ridge Hut
- Kelman Hut
- Liverpool Hut
- Mueller Hut
- Pioneer Hut
- Plateau Hut
- Tasman Saddle Hut
Serviced huts
Serviced huts have mattresses, water supply, toilets, handwashing facilities and heating with fuel available. They may have cooking facilities with fuel and a warden.
Fees for the hut
- Adult: $25 per night
- Child/youth: $12.50 per night
- Infant: free
Fees to camp at the hut
- Adult: $10 per night
- Child/youth: $5 per night
- Infant: free
Note: Prices vary for some huts (may include weekend or seasonal pricing) – check individual hut pages.
Standard huts
Standard huts have mattresses, water supply and toilets. Wood heaters are provided at huts below the bush line.
- Adult: $10 per night
- Youth/Child: $5 per night
- Infant: free
Fees to camp at the huts: Free
Note: Prices vary for some huts (may include weekend or seasonal pricing) – check individual hut pages.
Basic huts/bivvies
Basic huts provide very basic shelter with limited facilities.
Fees: Free
Club huts
There are a variety of other huts on public conservation land that are open to the public. These include recreation club huts such as the New Zealand Alpine Club huts in Aoraki/Mt Cook, Westland and Mt Aspiring national parks and private bush cabins.
They have mattresses, a water supply, toilets and handwashing facilities. They may have heating and cooking facilities and some require a booking.
Fees: Prices vary – check individual hut pages.