Ohakune & Tūroa
Blyth Hut
Intermediate 4.0 kmreturn 2 hr one way ↑ 608 m
A snug 18-bunk hut above Waitonga Falls with views over the southern plains.
A side track from the Waitonga Falls route climbs through beech forest to Blyth Hut on a shelf below Ruapehu’s southern slopes. A good first overnighter and a quiet base for the Mangaehuehu section of the Round the Mountain Track.
Blyth Hut © Sarang · Public domain The highest waterfall in the park, a 39 m curtain of water on the southern slopes of Ruapehu.
Alpine tarns that mirror Ruapehu’s southern peaks on a still morning.
A roadside waterfall in a mossy gorge, filmed as Ithilien in The Lord of the Rings.