Image: Jim Croawell | ©
A corrugated tin hut with an external stone firebox and brown chimney, a small green water tank on the right of the building. Set at the bottom of a big wheat coloured hill.
Bullendale Hut

Located in Skippers area in the Otago region

This is a standard four-bunk hut in the Queenstown/Wakatipu area.

You do not need to book this hut (first come, first served) but fees still apply. 

Fees

  • Adult (18+ years): $15 per night
  • Youth (5–17 years): $7.50 per night
  • Child/Infant (0–4 years): free

Before you go, buy a hut ticket online for each night's stay. You can print or display the digital ticket on your device, or write down the ticket and confirmation numbers to take with you. You can also buy a Backcountry Hut Pass that allows you to stay at non-bookable DOC huts for a 12 month period.

Backcountry hut ticket terms and conditions

Take the Skippers Rd to Skippers Point. This road is unsealed and a 4WD is recommended.

From here go up the Bullendale Hut Track.

Tracks to this hut

Location

Bullendale Hut.
Bullendale Hut

NZTopo50 map sheet: CB11
Grid/NZTM2000 coordinates: E1257747, N5031541

Warning: heavy metals continue to leach from the old mine workings here – do not drink water from Murdochs Creek