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ABC South East NSW reports the completion of the Sawyer's Hill hut rebuild
After some challenging mountain weather NSW Parks staff and 5 volunteers have nearly completed the Rest House at Sawyers Hill. With heavy snowfalls recently, the builders hope to get back to complete chimney and roof when the weather improves.
After the unusually wet summer, the annual KHA work party to Valentine Hut was delayed until a weekend of ideal weather in mid-March.
The reconstruction of ten heritage huts which were destroyed by the Black Summer bushfires in Kosciuszko National Park is now finished, with the completion of Round Mountain Hut.
Read the full media release at this link.
Deep in the heart of Namadgi National Park, the bush is coming back to life.
But two heritage huts destroyed when 80 per cent of the park burned in the Black Summer bushfires remain in ruins, despite government promises to rebuild.
Read James Tugwell's article on the lack of progress in the ACT hut rebuilds at this link
Read the article by James Tugwell from ABC South East NSW published on Monday 2 June 2025. It describes the NSW hut rebuild program, the work of our caretakers and the 3D scanning project.
The association held its 2025 Annual General Meeting in Tumut on 17 May.
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service recently provided these pictures of the rebuilt Linesmans huts and Round Mountain Hut.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service provided an update on recent work to rebuild Round Mountain Hut and the Linesman Huts.
The Kosciuszko Huts Association is contributing to a project managed by the Australian Alps National Parks Co-Operative Management Program to digitally capture and produce 3D digital twin models of over 100 heritage huts across the Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves of the ACT, NSW and Victoria.
A Return to Snowy Plain gathering was held over the weekend of 22-24 November 2024. Attending members visited Davey’s Hut, Botherim Plain Hut, a number of old hut sites, diggings and other sites of historical interest.
Read Mark Grundy's report on the recent ACT Region Heritage Symposium 2024 held in August at the
Australian National University in Canberra.