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Hut · Heaphy Track, Nelson/Tasman Great Walk

James Mackay Hut

40.8861° S, 172.2169° E

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James Mackay Hut, photo from DOC
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Booking

Book on DOC (opens the DOC booking website)DOC page for James Mackay Hut (opens the DOC website)

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

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Forecast

At 701 m, from Open-Meteo, fetched 6:27 am, Wed 4 Nov.

16-day forecast
DayConditionsHigh / lowRain, chanceWind km/h
Wed 4 NovShowers14° / 8°7.9 mm 100%14 gusts 38
Thu 5 NovShowers14° / 10°11.4 mm 49%9 gusts 26
Fri 6 NovShowers17° / 12°19.4 mm 100%10 gusts 32
Sat 7 NovThunderstorm19° / 11°17.6 mm 92%10 gusts 31
Sun 8 NovHeavy drizzle16° / 10°6 mm 57%10 gusts 32
Mon 9 NovDrizzle17° / 10°3.7 mm 49%19 gusts 49
Tue 10 NovShowers18° / 10°34.6 mm 69%16 gusts 47
Wed 11 NovDrizzle17° / 11°8.6 mm 91%12 gusts 40
Thu 12 NovHeavy drizzle16° / 10°12.8 mm 92%11 gusts 35
Fri 13 NovLight drizzle19° / 8°0.6 mm 61%8 gusts 31
Sat 14 NovLight drizzle16° / 6°1.8 mm 51%19 gusts 50
Sun 15 NovThunderstorm14° / 11°86.4 mm 73%21 gusts 59
Mon 16 NovDrizzle14° / 10°13 mm 75%18 gusts 50
Tue 17 NovShowers14° / 8°23.8 mm 67%10 gusts 46
Wed 18 NovShowers15° / 7°8.5 mm 56%10 gusts 31

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