This historic hut is very basic. You can stay here overnight but it may be more comfortable to camp. 

Heritage

Bealey Spur Hut is a beech sapling-framed; corrugated iron-clad hut with a wooden floor. It has an open fire with a flat tin chimney and there are six beds made of sacking attached to beach pole framing, taking a bed roll or air mattress is recommended.

There is no window (although there is evidence that there was once one in the south wall) and daylight to the interior is provided by a sheet of corrugated Nova light in the roof. Tank water is available and a pit toilet is nearby. The hut was painted for the first time (by persons unknown) in 1997.

The hut is attractively sited in a clearing of beech forest.

The hut was built in 1925 by Walter Taylor and Harry Faulkner, owners of Cora Lynn Station, used as a base for Cora Lynn’s high country muster of the "Powers Country" which grazed up to 6000 sheep. It is also known as Top Hut and in the past has been know as Musterer’s, or Top Horse Hut. Remains of corrugated iron dog kennels and the horse/sheep holding paddock fence are in the vicinity of the hut. Use of the hut for mustering ceased when the land was retired in 1978 and added to Arthur’s Pass National Park.

The hut is a good example of musterer’s huts of this era.  

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Location

NZTopo50 map sheet: BV20
Grid/NZTM2000 coordinates: E1483499, N5234532