Mini Huts
by Kemi NikoCollectable tramping huts
Made with the spirit and integrity of the backcountry; from salvaged materials to handcrafted construction.
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Mini Hut of
the Month
Each month we’ll handcraft a batch of one specific hut, showcasing the process and delving into the history of the real hut.
Feb / March 2023
Hooker Hut
Hooker Valley, Aoraki Mount Cook
Hooker hut, like those who stay in her, is a danger seeker. Built high above Hooker Glacier in 1910 it has been moved 5 times, hit by an avalanche, taken apart and stored before being moved to its current safer site.
This design was a Mini Hut request and we were drawn in by it’s bold colour scheme. The centenarian hut stubbornly refused to be tamed after being rebuilt. It wore out the new roof paint job within a year to show its true age and we have sought to emulate that by offering a speckled roof treatment.
Plain orange roof is also available.
Watch some of the making process for Hooker Hut
Reclaimed timber, salvaged steel coloured with Future Green with Shock Orange
Optional treatment of speckled (middle image) or plain (top).
Limited numbers available. Please state your roof preference (speckled or plain) in the checkout notes section
Hooker Hut image credits:
Current day - Thomas Chin
Historical - from Shelter From the Storm, Craig Potton Publishing 2012
Mini Hut Ingredients
Made in Aotearoa
½ Large tin can, slab of reclaimed rimu or pine, hours of time and attention,
years of experimentation, a healthy dose of hut obsession.
Every hut comes with a corrigated info card & map hidden in its chimney
Every hut comes with a corrigated info card & map hidden in its chimney
$145
inc GST

Blue Range Hut
Tararua Forest Park, WairarapaBlue hut with lean-to & chimney flue


Cone Hut
Tararua Forest Park, Wairarapa |
Rimu hut with green roof and chimney |


Goat Creek Hut
Old Ghost Road, Mōkihinui River, West CoastThis hut was built in 1957, and renovated in 2013. It has character in buckets, and you can sweep the floor straight out the door.
Grey hut with orange roof and chimney


Old Waihohonu Hut
Tongariro National Park, TūrangiAn intriguing two room hut built in 1904 with pit sawn totara. The first hut built in Tongariro National Park and the oldest existing mountain hut in Aotearoa.
Monochrome red hut with chimney


Mount Brown Hut
Lake Kaniere, West Coast |
Orange hut with rimu deck


Dog Box Biv
Eyre Mountains, Southland |
Silver and rust hut with chimney


Slaty Creek Hut
Waiheke River, West CoastAn historic early style of hunters hut built in the ‘50’s said to have been restored by Dave a few years back. Significant for its now rare beech slab construction.
Rimu hut with red roof and chimney |


Slip Flat Hut
Greenstone and Caples Conservation AreaDark green wooden hut with light green chimney |


Rocks Ahead Hut
Kaweka Forest Park, Hawkes BayMonochrome orange hut with chimney


Bealey Spur Hut
Arthurs Pass National Park, CanterburyThis basic six-bunk hut has local historic significance for its role in high country sheep farming. Built in 1935, it has an open fire with a tin chimney and spring mesh bunks attached to beech pole framing. It remained unpainted until 1997 when it got its first coat of green.
Green hut with chimney


Cecil Kings Hut
Kahurangi National Park, Nelson TasmanA surviving hut of depression era gold mining. Cecil King, a well known local identity, claimed that he built it alone from a single Red Beech in 1935. Its a four-bunk hut, beech pole framed, clad in wooden slabs and roofed with shingles (later covered with iron).
Rimu hut with lean to & chimney on the side