{"id":1807,"date":"2010-01-29T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T11:34:00","slug":"craigs-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/craigs-hut\/1807","title":{"rendered":"Craig&#8217;s Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/762\/craigs-hut-alpine-national-park-vic-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig's Hut, Alpine National Park, VIC, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PL-AUVICALCH01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally built as a temporary set for an Australian blockbuster movie \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Man from Snowy River\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in 1981, Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hut is now a very popular tourist attraction. Located not far from the Mount Stirling summit, it perfectly complements astonishing views of Victorian Alps, creating even better landscapes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Named after Jim Craig, a leading character in the film, Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hut was re-used in a sequel (1988) and in another movie called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cool Change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1986).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/798\/craigs-hut-alpine-national-park-vic-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig's Hut, Alpine National Park, VIC, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PL-AUVICALCH03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original version of the hut was destroyed by bushfires in December 2006. A year after, in January 2008, Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hut was completely rebuilt by Craig Ogier, who spent 9 weeks building a current version of the hut. Unfortunately, some people were not very grateful to Craig Ogier and criticised him, as they believed that the new hut was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poor imitation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Poor imitation or not, Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hut is a great place to visit \u00e2\u20ac\u201c clean air and exceptional views are definitely worth the effort of getting there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/797\/craigs-hut-alpine-national-park-vic-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Craig's Hut, Alpine National Park, VIC, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PL-AUVICALCH02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is located about 60 kilometres from Mansfield. At the base of the mountains in Marimbah, just after the toll gates, turn left onto the gavel Mt Stirling Road and follow it for 9 km until you reach Telephone Box Junction. There, take a left fork of the Circuit Road and drive 20 km to the beginning of the Clear Hills Track.<\/p>\n<p>Mt Stirling and Circuit Roads open during the summer and suitable for 2WD vehicles, but Clear Hills Track is a 4WD road, so if you have a regular car, you should leave it at the intersection and complete your journey by feet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hut is located 2.6km (40 minutes walk) from the beginning of Clear Hills Track.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/pi\/796\/craigs-hut-alpine-national-park-vic-australia\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1811\" title=\"Craig's Hut, Alpine National Park, VIC, Australia\"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PL-AUVICALCH04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally built as a temporary set for an Australian blockbuster movie \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Man from Snowy River\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in 1981, Craig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hut is now a very popular tourist attraction. Located not far from the Mount Stirling summit, it perfectly complements astonishing views of Victorian Alps, creating even better landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[435,96,17,124,173,433,168,431,436,95,437,432,115,226,26,434,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}