Ironstone Hut @ Lake Nameless
Photo courtesy of Jim Moon © 2001.
Known as Ironstone Hut or Lake Nameless Hut
Located at Lake Nameless, Central Highlands. The hut can be accessed via Higgs Track, or from Lake McKenzie via Explorer Creek. From Deloraine take the Mole Creek Road and continue for 8km before turning left onto Dairy Plains Road. After 13km, turn right onto Western Creek Road and then left onto Westrope Road. 4km later turn right onto Dale Brook Road. The Higgs Track begins from the signposted carpark at the end of this gravel road.
History
The original Ironstone Hut was built in 1918 by the Deloraine and District Improvement Association, but by 1990 was a pile of rubble.
Applications were made in 1998 and 1990 to rebuild the hut, and extensive review followed after an initial denial.
Members of MHPS began rebuilding the hut in January 1993. The Department of PWS supplied all materials and lifted the supplies in by helicopter to the hut site. All labour came from MHPS members. The official opening was in 1996 with 300 attendees. Rema Higgs the granddaughter of the first builder, opened the new hut.
Construction
Ironstone Hut is a single-roomed hut built of stone, with a wooden floor, an iron roof, and a narrow verandah which runs along the front of the building. .
Caretakers - MHPS.
GPS from Backcountryhuts.net S 41.726822 E 146.43709