Set off for the DOC hut three-quarters of the way to the rocky Pinnacles peak in the afternoon to arrive by dusk, then set an ...

The future of nearly a third of all huts and tracks managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC) is in limbo, as the agency faces a 30 percent shortfall in funding to maintain them. Director of ...

writes Thomas Bywater We've searched high and low to bring you a list of the country's most deluxe DoC Huts. With natural hot spring spas on site and million-dollar views, these are not your ...

About 8.5 million hectares comes under the protection of DoC. Among them are well-known ... it is the setting of these huts which is priceless. With low-season bunks costing from $5 a night ...