Kiritaki (aka Sea-Mac motel) is a classic six bunk hut deep in the Leatherwood zone of the Southern Ruahines. Sleeps: Six bunks and room on the floor. Heating: A little pot belly that goes good.  Its a snug hut. Camping: yes plenty of lumpy camping on the grass-come-heli pad outside.  Steve had a night out there while I took over the ...

Sparrowhawk biv is a quirky combination of a dog box and a standup joined together - with no bunks in the standup part.  It sits just above the bushline on the eastern side of the main range.  On this rather chilly night 8 people fitted inside (note our packs didn't!). Sleeps:  8.  Well we did it - actually it would be better ...

Barlow was one of the last huts built in the Ruahines by the NZFS in 1983.  It's a comfortable haven up the Makaroro, and sits at the bottom of Colenso spur - a historic route across the Ruahine ranges. Sleeps: 10 or so on platforms Heating: Corker cooker Camping: Not a lot nearby.

This hut is accesible by 4X4 off the No Mans road. Sleeps: Six Heating: Open fire Camping: heaps

This hut is a memorial hut and sits in an improbable location in a tiny northern Ruahine valley.  Not often visited, and quite dark with a concrete floor. Sleeps: Six Heating: Burner Camping: I don't remember a lot.

This hut was reputedly done up by DoC and then claimed by the landowners in the early 90s.  If you get permission then the landowners are very friendly to trampers.  The road in the foreground is No Mans road.

Ikawatea Forks is a remote hut!  Its sits at the forks of Ikawatea stream and Apias Creek in the northern Ruahines.  Its Whio territory. Sleeps: Six Heating: Open fire Camping: Not much, the clearing was blasted from the bush

A comfortable hut in a stunning location.  Lake Colenso is well worth a visit and the tramping around here is superb. Sleeps: Around 10 on platforms Heating: Corker cooker Camping:  You will be able to find some in the general vicinity.

Maropea Forks is in a stunning location and this central part of the range offers some of the finest tramping in the North Island. Sleeps: Six Heating: Corker cooker Camping: Yes, the Maropea is a superb camping valley

This hut has now burned down and been replaced.  It was a large hut, half of which was locked at the end of Table Flat road in the Orua catchment.  A great friday night destination only 20min from a safe carpark, with some neat tramping on the Ngamoko range.