Hello 2025! Join us as we showcase the making process and delve into the history of real backcountry huts.

Blue Range Hut

Tararua Forest Park, Wairarapa



While Blue Range Hut is a standard 4 bunk hut, built in 1958 by the Masterton Tramping Club, it is far from ordinary.


Not only is the hut adorned with quirky signage (including ‘no parking’ and ‘antenatal clinic’ to name a few) apparently it is the only hut in the Tararuas with hot and cold water on tap. You’ll have to let us know if that is true or not.


The hut build started with fortnightly club trips over 18 months to carry the materials up the 700m climb. Impromptu competitions ensued.


A few decades later someone must have gotten their hands on the hospital signs when Masterton Hospital closed in 2005 and installed them around the hut.







This 2025 editon of Blue Range Hut is still in production. The design has been refined slightly since the pictured edition.

We aim to ship out by 13th March. Thanks for your patience.

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