Store Point Hut
Photo courtesy of Rooftop Maps © 2003.
Known as Store Point Hut or Store Points Hut.
Located at Store Point with two other huts, on Donnellys Creek Road. F
rom Walhalla, follow Walhalla Road north for about 10 km, turn right onto Binns Road, then turn left onto McEvoys Track (signposted Springs Road). After about 10.2 km from the Binns Road junction, turn left into Donnellys Creek Road and descend to Store Point.
This approach includes unsealed forest roads and a 4WD creek-road section. Park at Store Point campground and walk the short distance to the hut. The Store Point Historic Loop Walk starts at the southern end of the campsite and takes in the burial ground and the schoolhouse site. The nearby Morning Star Walk leads to the Morning Star Waterwheel and the Crinoline Mine site, where a Cornish boiler is still visible.
History
Store Point was once a township established for the Donnellys Creek gold mining boom in the 1860s. This hut was built about 1972 and supported mining in the area at this time.
It was damaged in the 2013 bushfires and was restored by locals and later upgraded in 2023 with funding through the Victorian Government’s Victoria’s Great Outdoors program.
The burial ground was never gazetted as such but burials occurred from 1870 to 1910.
Construction
An unusual iron shed with a roof made from half sections of old water tanks.
References
Rooftop Maps
R Paoletti - Pers comm.
Mapping Guidance
Store Point Hut GPS (WGS84): 37.755817°S, 146.502683°E.
UTM: Zone 55, southern hemisphere (grid zone 55H), 456192 mE, 5821161 mN. Mapped position (ExplorOz), approximate.
Nearby Lloyds Hut: 37.754083°S, 146.501167°E; UTM 55H, 456058 mE, 5821352 mN. These are separate mapped hut positions.