Dixons Kingdom Hut - Walls of Jerusalem

Dixons Kingdom Hut, situated in  Jaffa Vale, deep in the heart of the beautiful Walls of Jerusalem National Park, is a favourite landmark, well known to bushwalkers in this area.

The hut was built by Reg Dixon, his young son Bobby, and Harry Donohue in the early 1950s. Having chosen and cleared a site near an ancient stand of pencil pines, Reg, Harry and the young Bobby, cut and dragged pine logs from the nearby forest with the assistance of their draft horses. The result was a log cabin, long and low in appearance, with a shingle roof and a stone and timber chimney.  Over the next couple of decades it was used by Reg Dixon and the cattlemen who, every year, drove large numbers of cattle into the Walls for summer grazing, prior to the area being made a National Park.

Reg Dixon leased grazing land in the Walls from 1947 until, in 1972,  he  surrendered his lease and the area came under the  jurisdiction of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

In 1987, the Walls of Jerusalem was the location for the filming of 'The Tale of Ruby Rose'. It was proposed to use Dixons Kingdom Hut as a backdrop and, to this end, several structural alterations and additions were made to the hut. Ultimately, the hut was not used for the film and, in 1998, the services of members of MHPS were used to reinstate the Hut to its original condition, as well as  replace the roof which was, by then, in need of significant maintenance.