Read Mark Grundy's report on the recent ACT Region Heritage Symposium 2024 held in August at the
Australian National University in Canberra.
KHA President Simon Buckpitt delivered a presentation to this year’s ACT region Heritage Symposium in Canberra on 13 August.
Woodskills is a weekend KHA camping event run once every two years, demonstrating colonial timbercraft and carpentry. Held at the Kellett family’s property in Wee Jasper, it’s run by volunteers for members, interested staff from NSW NPWS and ACT Parks and Conservation Service, and for Wee Jasper locals.
NPWS has announced the list of Huts to be rebuilt subject to environmental assessment:
In October 2021, the New South Wales NPWS announced the list of huts to be rebuilt, subject to environmental assessments:
NSW Update
If you are interested in helping out with the reconstruction of the huts in NSW then please register directly with NPWS NPWS by emailing
Our good friends at NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service were busy in December working on Delany's Hut (aka Delany’s No. 3), battling unseasonal snow and wind to install the roof and complete other tasks.
A Return to Snowy Plain gathering was held over the weekend of 22-24 November 2024. Attending members visited Davey’s Hut, Botherim Plain Hut, a number of old hut sites, diggings and other sites of historical interest.
An article by Carolyn MacDonald
Photos: Carolyn Macdonald
While volunteering on the Orange Hawkweed program this year I learnt from the local Park ranger that Bob the taxi driver in Corryong can drive people up the Cabramurra Road in winter. Coming from Adelaide this made sense to cut out the Alpine Way and reducing our drive time and distance. This was especially relevant this year as we would have been trying to drive the Alpine Way just after it had been blocked by the landslide. Not only that, Bob supplies you with a pile of yummy homemade sandwiches, tea, coffee and hot chocolate to help you on your way.
Everyone loves home-made blackberry jam. The pesky plants that can overrun a house in a few years bear, arguably, the most delicious of berries.
A GRAVE AND ITS STORY. By John Gale, 10 March 1903
Whilst at Peppercorn some of our party paid a visit to a lonely grave out on the plain about half a mile from the homestead.
What we do
- Protect and enhance the cultural heritage values
- Conserve historic huts and associated structures
- Provide input into government planning processes
- Create heritage awareness amongst the general public
- Maintain the art and craft of traditional bush building skills and knowledge.
400 + Members
75 + Huts
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For over 50 years KHA has carried out maintenance activities
on most of the 90 or so remaining huts and homesteads in KNP and NNP.
Learn more about what we have been up to recently.
Return to Snowy Plain weekend
A Return to Snowy Plain gathering was held over the weekend of 22-24 November 2024. Attending members visited Davey’s Hut, Botherim Plain Hut, a number of old hut sites, diggings and other sites of historical interest.
Heritage Symposium report
Read Mark Grundy's report on the recent ACT Region Heritage Symposium 2024 held in August at the
Australian National University in Canberra.
Four Mile Hut reopens
On Saturday 20th April, a group of 70 people watched on as Four Mile Hut was reopened after being rebuilt following destruction during the 2019/2020 bushfires.
The Huts
The heritage huts of the Snowy Mountains are structures of national significance
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