Additional InformationBuilt in 1957 by timbermen Alan Buchanan and Norman Thrush for Tewantin Sawmills, Harry’s Hut originally sheltered local loggers working along the Noosa River. In the 1960s, Cooroy and Pomona pharmacist Harry Spring bought the one-room cabin from sawmill owner Sam McKinnon.
Spring and his fishing friends expanded the shack. They connected the rain galley using an old slaughterhouse iron roof, laid a floor embedded with empty beer bottles, and added a local timber veranda.
When Spring passed away at age 92 in 1999, the lease returned to the National Parks administration. Today, the remote wilderness retreat stands unchanged as a rare survivor of the region's timber era, cherished by amateur fishers, campers, and river tour groups.
