A wilderness hut, backcountry hut, or backcountry shelter (Finnish: autiotupa) is a rent-free, simple shelter or hut for temporary, usually overnight accommodation, usually located in wilderness areas, national parks and along backpacking and hiking routes.
They are found in many parts of the world, such as Finland, Sweden, Norway, and northern Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or hut:
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)