During November, Federated Mountain Clubs (FMC) is inviting the public to visit Aotearoa’s 900+ huts, give them a spring clean and a bit of outdoorsy love.

Sign up to the ‘Love our huts and track’ campaign on the FMC website and elect which huts you plan to visit. FMC will provide a phone-based form to record the hut’s ‘health check’.

These health-check reports will then be used to create a draft strategy covering hut, track and bridge protection and options to strengthen this outdoors network. 

In 2025 the people and organisations who maintain, protect and manage the backcountry will attend a workshop to consider the future of this network.