Around 60 huts are scattered around Ruahine Forest Park, most of them built in the 1960s by the Forest Service to shelter deer cullers who went bush for weeks on end. Stanfield Hut is one of these huts and was named after George Stanfield, a local landowner. It’s two hour’s walk from the road end, […]
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