[Regions](/regions/) › [Tour du Mont Blanc](/regions/tmb/) › Auberge la Grande Ourse [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=tmb&hut=hut_20002) # Auberge la Grande Ourse [Tour du Mont Blanc](/regions/tmb/) · CH We read this hut's calendar every day: 3 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 16 Sep. The 8 huts you can walk to from here in a day are listed below, so the night after this one can be planned in the same sitting. Auberge la Grande Ourse is an alpine hut in the Tour du Mont Blanc, CH. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day. ## Availability Last checked: 4 September 2026 Next night with space: 16 September 2026. 3 nights with space in the next 60 days. September: 3 nights [Book directly with the hut](https://www.montourdumontblanc.com/en/refuges/auberge-la-grande-ourse) Availability is checked daily but can change at any moment - always confirm directly with the hut when booking. ## How to book You book Auberge la Grande Ourse directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds. [Open the hut's booking page](https://www.montourdumontblanc.com/en/refuges/auberge-la-grande-ourse) Or contact the hut directly: [contact@la-grande-ourse.ch](mailto:contact@la-grande-ourse.ch), +41 79 591 50 91. ## Walkable from here - [Auberge Mont-Blanc](/huts/auberge-mont-blanc/) - 0h04, 0.22 km, +7 m · Roads / tracks - [Refuge le Peuty](/huts/refuge-le-peuty/) - 0h19, 1.38 km, +68 m · Roads / tracks - [Gîte du col de la Forclaz](/huts/gite-du-col-de-la-forclaz/) - 0h43, 2.07 km, +278 m · T2 mountain - [Chalet des Grands-Dessus](/huts/chalet-des-grands-dessus/) - 2h28, 6.59 km, +1013 m · T2 mountain - [Refuge du Col de Balme](/huts/refuge-du-col-de-balme/) - 2h34, 6.54 km, +1142 m · T2 mountain - [Gîte d'alpage de Charamillon](/huts/gite-d-alpage-de-charamillon/) - 3h17, 8.4 km, +1153 m · T2 mountain - [Gîte Saint Louis](/huts/gite-saint-louis/) - 4h17, 11.23 km, +1021 m · T2 mountain - [Gîte Mermoud](/huts/gite-mermoud/) - 4h20, 11.4 km, +1021 m · T2 mountain Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg. [Plan a route from this hut](/app?region=tmb&hut=hut_20002) [See the whole Tour du Mont Blanc network](/regions/tmb/) ## About Tour du Mont Blanc The Tour du Mont Blanc circles the Mont Blanc massif through France, Italy and Switzerland, staying in mountain refuges and gites along the way. Most member huts book through the official Tour du Mont Blanc platform, while several independent refuges take bookings on their own pages or by email. Stages fill within days of reservations opening, so the usual advice is to book in October or November for the following summer. Guides for this region: [Tour du Mont Blanc 2027 rules: what is proposed, what is law](/guides/tour-du-mont-blanc-2027-rules/) · [Wild camping and bivouac on the Tour du Mont Blanc](/guides/wild-camping-bivouac-tour-du-mont-blanc/) · [How to plan a hut-to-hut Tour du Mont Blanc trek](/guides/tour-du-mont-blanc-hut-to-hut/) ## Planning a route through Auberge la Grande Ourse Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Auberge la Grande Ourse there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Tour du Mont Blanc network of 101 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time. This hut's calendar is one HutScanner can read, so a route through it can be checked night by night, along with 72 other huts in Tour du Mont Blanc. [Plan a multi-night route from Auberge la Grande Ourse](/app?region=tmb&hut=hut_20002). If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in [using HutScanner with AI assistants](/guides/ai-assistants-and-hutscanner/), and the endpoint is documented in the [OpenAPI spec](/api/openapi.json).