[Regions](/regions/) › [Alpes-Valaisannes network](/regions/alpes-valaisannes/) › Cabane de Balavaux [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=alpes-valaisannes&hut=hut_2463)

# Cabane de Balavaux

2042 m · sleeps 40 · Switzerland · [Alpes-Valaisannes network](/regions/alpes-valaisannes/)

We read this hut's calendar every day: 27 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 9 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.

Cabane de Balavaux is an alpine hut at 2042 m in Switzerland, reached from the [Alpes-Valaisannes](/regions/alpes-valaisannes/) network. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## Availability

Last checked: 4 September 2026

Next night with space: 9 September 2026.

27 nights with space in the next 60 days.

September: 12 nights · October: 15 nights

[Book directly with the hut](https://www.cabanebalavaux.com/)

Availability is checked daily but can change at any moment - always confirm directly with the hut when booking.

## How to book

You book Cabane de Balavaux 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.cabanebalavaux.com/)

Or contact the hut directly: [info@cabanebalavaux.com](mailto:info@cabanebalavaux.com), +41 78 255 88 07.

## Walkable from here

- [Cabane du Mont Fort](/huts/cabane-du-mont-fort/) - 4h40, 11.42 km, +1063 m
- [Refuge de St Laurent](/huts/refuge-de-st-laurent/) - 5h20, 13.02 km, +1240 m
- [Cabane d’Essertze](/huts/cabane-d-essertze/) - 6h29, 16.4 km, +1272 m
- [Cabane de Louvie](/huts/cabane-de-louvie/) - 7h29, 18.4 km, +1697 m
- [Cabane de Prafleuri CAS](/huts/cabane-de-prafleuri-cas/) - 8h14, 20.14 km, +1908 m
- [Cabane Marcel Brunet](/huts/cabane-marcel-brunet/) - 8h31, 24.08 km, +2130 m
- [Cabane des Ecoulaies](/huts/cabane-des-ecoulaies/) - 9h01, 22.07 km, +2070 m
- [Refuge de La Barma](/huts/refuge-de-la-barma/) - 9h20, 22.97 km, +2106 m

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=alpes-valaisannes&hut=hut_2463)

[See the whole Alpes-Valaisannes network](/regions/alpes-valaisannes/)

## About the Alpes-Valaisannes network

Cabane de Balavaux is in Switzerland. It is routed in our Alpes-Valaisannes network, which is why it is listed here: the walking times above come from that network.

32 huts connected by 140 walking routes in the Alpes-Valaisannes massif.

## Planning a route through Cabane de Balavaux

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 Cabane de Balavaux there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside an Alpes-Valaisannes network of 32 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 17 other huts in Alpes-Valaisannes. [Plan a multi-night route from Cabane de Balavaux](/app?region=alpes-valaisannes&hut=hut_2463).

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).