It took until I tramped Te Araroa Trail for me to appreciate the diverse collection of huts dotted along New Zealand’s public tramping network.
The tremendously varied geography of New Zealand is undoubtedly Te Araroa’s highlight, but the trail also invites trampers to experience modern DOC huts, prospectors’ dwellings, former farmhouses, musterers’ huts, New Zealand Forest Service two-, four- and six-bunkers and a