Poutaki Hut is ready to welcome trampers for another 40 years or more. Photo: Shaun Barnett

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Poutaki Hut, Ruahine Forest Park

Poutaki Hut is the only public hut in the Wakarara Range, a small outlier of bony hills east of the Ruahine Range. The four-bunker is perched in a grassy clearing overlooking the plains and hills of Hawke’s Bay. The Backcountry Trust completely refurbished the hut over the 2021–22 summer and I suspect it has never […]
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