Image by Murray Dowling

A failed Pine Forest - now removed from the National Park

Known as ACT Forests Hut or Foresters Hut.

Location Walk about 300m from the Yankee Hat carpark, on a short branch to the left of the main trail, and off the old Boboyan road just afer the locked gate. The AMG Grid Reference 784409 on the Tantangara 1:100,000 map. The same carpark is a good taking off point for walks to the summits of Mt Gudgenby, Mt Kelly or the Yankee Hat aboriginal paintings (currently closed to visitors, two years after the 2020 bushfires).

Brief History This hut was built in 1966 for use by Forestry workers, engaged in the pine planting near Yankee Hat. The pine plantation was not particularly successful and the pines were progessive removed from what is now the Namadgi National Park.

The Shed on the right was carefully removed on Saturday 19 January 2002 and the parts stored by KHA at the works depot at Glendale, where KHA maintains a shed full of useful hut construction materials.

Construction Corrugated iron over bush poles, with a wooden floor.

Caretakers - Namadgi National Parks Service.

References

  • KHA Reference number is 1708 (1997)

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