Field Hut

Field Hut is a historic tramping hut in the Tararua Range of New Zealand. Field Hut was constructed by the Tararua Tramping Club following the death of one of their members and is named after the first president of the club, William Hughes Field. Field Hut has been used by thousands of trampers making the journey to the Southern Crossing. Field Hut has remained largely the same throughout its history and retains evidence of pit-sawing construction, a technique that was rare at the time. A threat of demolition in the 1990s lead to Field Hut's inclusion on the Wellington Region Heritage Inventory and eventually registration as a category 1 historic building with Heritage New Zealand.