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Cascade Hut

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Cascade Hut

Local clubs built mountain huts to encourage climbing. Cascade Hut was built by the Otago section of the New Zealand Alpine Club in 1932. It is in the West Matukituki valley on the route to Mt Aspiring.

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – Clubs and huts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10504/cascade-hut (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.