What are they doing to Craig's Hut?

Im proving facilities, making access easier, etc etc..

Ruining it basically

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They are going to "access and improved and additional visitor facilities"...

Visitors Facilities? - What a Visitors Center with caps, badges, pins, and cheap chinese made Koalas?
Access? -> What a 4 lane freeway? Whats wrong with the 3 tracks into it now?

Craig's Hut redevelopment

Craig's Hut is a well-known and popular destination for locals and tourists alike and an icon of the Victorian high country. It is so popular with estimates of some 80,000 people visiting the site each year.

The main focus for the redevelopment of the site will include an upgrade of the parking area, rehabilitation of degraded sites, improved signage and access and improved and additional visitor facilities.

Work will be done in stages with approximately $150,000 to be spent this year. Improvements to be completed by the end of March include erecting a new information shelter, four picnic tables, two new viewing areas, seating inside the hut and a stabilised crushed granite path leading from the car park to the hut and its surrounds. Provided more funding is secured next year, a disabled access ramp, major improvements to the car park and repairs to the surrounding wooded fence are planned.
DSE asks visitors to Craig's Hut to be aware of the possibility of heavy machinery on the Circuit Road and the access track to the hut. There will be contractors and equipment working around the hut site until the end of March.
For further information contact DSE, Mansfield on 5733 1200
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Yep, it was that post I was referring to.

Agreed, they are ruining it - it already has a different feel. Bugger it if people call us selfish, but I would prefer they make access more difficult, not easier.

Hence my post late last year about the vehicle counter on the track.
Buggered!

yea IM selfish too Moggs, but if they are going to charge $30 a person/car/4b.. they wont have to make it harder, that will kull the so called 80,000 a yr down to about 80....

The place is shut for about 6 months each year. Do the figures again.

Crikey! Even scarier - that means about 44 visitors every hour. Bitumen road next...

:o) Melissa

Anywhere in Aussie, ask 100,000 people to name a Hut in the High Country, which hut do you think 999,990 will mention?

It maynot be a genurine hut, but its probably the only one people would know.

also saw the works there and thought they were just re-doing the carpark. I hope that $28 is limited to the ski season