Getting to Upper Caples

From the Greenstone car park (via the Caples Track): allow about 2.5–3 hours to the DOC Mid Caples Hut, then another 2 hours to here. From Mid Caples the track crosses large grass clearings, then settles into bush track and eventually runs alongside a long grass clearing for a couple of kilometres. At the end of the clearing the track heads left and starts uphill — newish path, rocks blasted away, slowly being covered by leaves and moss. About 10–15 minutes up that steady hill, look for the DOC 'Caples Track' sign on your left. Directly opposite, down to your right about 200m below in a grass clearing, is the hut. If you reach the Kay Creek turnoff, you've gone too far.

From the McKellar Saddle: you'll pass a track on your left to the Fraser and Kay Creek swing bridge; about 5 minutes after that you reach a DOC Caples Track signpost (on your right from this direction), with a Steele Creek Track signpost in the trees behind it. The hut is down to the left in the clearing.