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Hut · Heaphy Track, Nelson/Tasman Great Walk

Gouland Downs Hut

40.8906° S, 172.3533° E

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Gouland Downs Hut, photo from DOC
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Booking

Book on DOC (opens the DOC booking website)DOC page for Gouland Downs Hut (opens the DOC website)

This is a Great Walk: Book on DOC opens DOC's Great Walks form. Choose Heaphy Track and your dates there; DOC does not let other sites open a Great Walk directly.

Updated 12:01 pm, Wed 4 Nov. Hut Hunter reads availability from DOC's booking system every two hours, so check DOC before you set off.

Free bunks by date

The next 60 nights. Numbers are people: how many more can book that night.

November 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Wed 4 Nov: 6 of 8 freeThu 5 Nov: 8 of 8 freeFri 6 Nov: 6 of 8 freeSat 7 Nov: 8 of 8 freeSun 8 Nov: 8 of 8 free
Mon 9 Nov: 5 of 8 freeTue 10 Nov: 8 of 8 freeWed 11 Nov: 8 of 8 freeThu 12 Nov: 5 of 8 freeFri 13 Nov: 1 of 8 freeSat 14 Nov: booked out, 0 of 8 freeSun 15 Nov: 6 of 8 free
Mon 16 Nov: 8 of 8 freeTue 17 Nov: 1 of 8 freeWed 18 Nov: 3 of 8 freeThu 19 Nov: 8 of 8 freeFri 20 Nov: 8 of 8 freeSat 21 Nov: 4 of 8 freeSun 22 Nov: booked out, 0 of 8 free
Mon 23 Nov: 4 of 8 freeTue 24 Nov: 4 of 8 freeWed 25 Nov: 5 of 8 freeThu 26 Nov: 8 of 8 freeFri 27 Nov: 8 of 8 freeSat 28 Nov: 4 of 8 freeSun 29 Nov: 6 of 8 free
Mon 30 Nov: 8 of 8 free
December 2026
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Tue 1 Dec: 5 of 8 freeWed 2 Dec: 7 of 8 freeThu 3 Dec: 8 of 8 freeFri 4 Dec: 8 of 8 freeSat 5 Dec: 6 of 8 freeSun 6 Dec: 8 of 8 free
Mon 7 Dec: 4 of 8 freeTue 8 Dec: 7 of 8 freeWed 9 Dec: 2 of 8 freeThu 10 Dec: 8 of 8 freeFri 11 Dec: 6 of 8 freeSat 12 Dec: 8 of 8 freeSun 13 Dec: 8 of 8 free
Mon 14 Dec: 6 of 8 freeTue 15 Dec: 6 of 8 freeWed 16 Dec: 1 of 8 freeThu 17 Dec: 5 of 8 freeFri 18 Dec: 6 of 8 freeSat 19 Dec: 8 of 8 freeSun 20 Dec: 1 of 8 free
Mon 21 Dec: 2 of 8 freeTue 22 Dec: 6 of 8 freeWed 23 Dec: booked out, 0 of 8 freeThu 24 Dec: 8 of 8 freeFri 25 Dec: 6 of 8 freeSat 26 Dec: 8 of 8 freeSun 27 Dec: 7 of 8 free
Mon 28 Dec: booked out, 0 of 8 freeTue 29 Dec: 8 of 8 freeWed 30 Dec: booked out, 0 of 8 freeThu 31 Dec: 1 of 8 free
January 2027
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Fri 1 Jan 2027: booked out, 0 of 8 freeSat 2 Jan 2027: 8 of 8 free

Free (of total)Booked outClosedNot open for booking yet

Forecast

At 635 m, from Open-Meteo, fetched 8:46 am, Wed 4 Nov.

16-day forecast
DayConditionsHigh / lowRain, chanceWind km/h
Wed 4 NovShowers14° / 8°7.9 mm 92%14 gusts 38
Thu 5 NovShowers15° / 10°11.4 mm 49%9 gusts 26
Fri 6 NovShowers17° / 12°19.4 mm 100%10 gusts 32
Sat 7 NovThunderstorm20° / 11°17.6 mm 92%10 gusts 31
Sun 8 NovHeavy drizzle17° / 10°6 mm 51%10 gusts 32
Mon 9 NovDrizzle18° / 10°3.7 mm 66%19 gusts 49
Tue 10 NovShowers19° / 11°34.6 mm 69%16 gusts 47
Wed 11 NovDrizzle18° / 11°8.6 mm 91%12 gusts 40
Thu 12 NovHeavy drizzle16° / 11°12.8 mm 92%11 gusts 35
Fri 13 NovLight drizzle19° / 8°0.6 mm 61%8 gusts 31
Sat 14 NovLight drizzle16° / 7°1.8 mm 51%19 gusts 50
Sun 15 NovThunderstorm14° / 11°86.4 mm 73%21 gusts 59
Mon 16 NovDrizzle15° / 10°13 mm 75%18 gusts 50
Tue 17 NovShowers14° / 8°23.8 mm 67%10 gusts 46
Wed 18 NovShowers15° / 6°8.8 mm 56%9 gusts 31
Thu 19 NovOvercast17° / 6°0 mm 47%11 gusts 6

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