Mayo Hut

Visited 29/8/21. Tank about 90% full. Lovely spot, very much appreciated, thank you FOTH. The Wonaka/Merna Merna creek route before you turn off towards Red Range effectively has two options – walking via the creek bed is more scenic (particularly around the Wonoka/Merna Merna creek junction where there are some large, beautiful springs), but main signage and faster route is often on the creek banks.

We are reporting from there now 21.4.21 thanks to 4g reception, heading South. Came from Red Range heading to Hawker but too far …34km… and creek walking too tiring so decided to stay at this beautiful hut for the night
Water tank off toilet has about 50%. Water from tank off hut is rust colored and about 60%. Lovely to enjoy the sun and listen to the birds with roos hoping by. Saw first sheep on Arkaba today and some water in creeks near the hut. Can be hard to find signs showing way out of very wide creeks. About 8km south of Red Range the sign was on top of the right hand bank nearly covered by leaves of a huge gum down in the creek.

An excellent hut that fits our party of 7 nicely. Water tanks seem full. The walk here from Red Range Camp was mostly along the river. The short patches through the stations were hot – barely a blade of grass. When we arrived by the hut we were greeted by a mob of sheep. Not sure what they’re eating but they looked in good shape.

Suze I have done just over 30% of the trail so far.

Are you planning on doing day walks or carrying full packs?

You can get a shower in Wilpena for a small cost.

Hey good work, I like your comments and photos, a good hiking trip.

You can now edit your posts – my bad – I wasn’t aware the ordinary user couldn’t edit their own posts within this forum subgroup (others they could).

Hrm it’s a pain that I can’t edit my posts 🙁

A note that sleeping on the top sleeping platform can be a bit draughty – the wind comes in straight over the walls. Recommend a beanie or sleeping downstairs or in a tent if it’s windy.

Sweet hut! Stayed here on April 17th – our first night out while hiking from where the trail crosses the Hawker-Parachilna Road to the Parachilna Gorge trailhead (7 days/125ish km.)

In addition to the facilities mentioned above there is a quite new looking loo – very flash. There’s enough steel in it to ensure it’s around long after the hut has crumbled into dust.

I thought the new water tank on the loo had a broken tap, but my mate thought it was empty, so not sure about that one.

Check out the wooden-edged gravel pit underneath the tap – that’s dedication!

There is a tank on the hut though which is about 2/3 full.

We very much appreciated the hut to stay in after a late start (3:40 at the main road) and arriving in the dark around 7:30. We shortcutted the last bend in the creek and found some very odd cultivation of some sort – kind of looks like someone’s been doing learner practice in a grader, or some kind of alien crop circle – very strange.

We found the fire set on arrival and a plentiful supply of dry wood which was appreciated (would be especially useful in a thunderstorm, but a nice touch nonetheless.)

I reckon you could sleep about 10 on the sleeping platforms, plus more on the floor if you were really desperate. There are also enough billies hanging on the walls to feed several thousand people.

One of our party members had a severely upset stomach during the night, however we do not believe it was due to water from this hut – nobody else in the party had a problem. Just a useful note if some other people have trouble too.

Cous-cous for dinner. Bed at 9:45. Rose at 9:30 (quite late due to the fun and games at 1am and only a short day ahead) and departed for Red Range Campsite at 11am.