[Regions](/regions/) › [Mont-Blanc network](/regions/mont-blanc/) › Gîte du col de la Forclaz [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=mont-blanc&hut=hut_2989)

# Gîte du col de la Forclaz

1527 m · sleeps 40 · Switzerland · [Mont-Blanc network](/regions/mont-blanc/)

We read this hut's calendar every day: 52 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 6 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.

Gîte du col de la Forclaz is an alpine hut at 1527 m in Switzerland, reached from the [Mont-Blanc](/regions/mont-blanc/) network. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## Availability

Last checked: 4 September 2026

Next night with space: 6 September 2026.

52 nights with space in the next 60 days.

September: 22 nights · October: 27 nights · November: 3 nights

[Book directly with the hut](https://www.montourdumontblanc.com/fr/refuges/hotel-du-col-de-la-forclaz)

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

## How to book

You book Gîte du col de la Forclaz 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/fr/refuges/hotel-du-col-de-la-forclaz)

Or contact the hut directly: [colforclazhotel@bluewin.ch](mailto:colforclazhotel@bluewin.ch), +41 27 722 26 88.

## Walkable from here

- [Refuge le Peuty](/huts/refuge-le-peuty/) - 0h38, 1.89 km, +25 m
- [Chalet des Grands-Dessus](/huts/chalet-des-grands-dessus/) - 1h55, 5.75 km, +148 m
- [Gîte d'alpage de Charamillon](/huts/gite-d-alpage-de-charamillon/) - 3h16, 9.81 km, +766 m
- [Refuge du Col de Balme](/huts/refuge-du-col-de-balme/) - 3h34, 7.95 km, +1140 m
- [Chalet Alpin du Tour](/huts/chalet-alpin-du-tour/) - 4h31, 12.53 km, +1223 m
- [Auberge gîte Bon Abri](/huts/auberge-gite-bon-abri/) - 4h42, 11.95 km, +891 m
- [Chalet La Grange](/huts/chalet-la-grange/) - 4h43, 12.01 km, +893 m
- [Refuge du Moulin](/huts/refuge-du-moulin/) - 4h58, 14.36 km, +1186 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=mont-blanc&hut=hut_2989)

[See the whole Mont-Blanc network](/regions/mont-blanc/)

## About the Mont-Blanc network

Gîte du col de la Forclaz is in Switzerland. It is routed in our Mont-Blanc network, which is why it is listed here: the walking times above come from that network.

46 huts connected by 104 walking routes in the Mont-Blanc massif.

## Planning a route through Gîte du col de la Forclaz

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 Gîte du col de la Forclaz there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Mont-Blanc network of 46 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 31 other huts in Mont-Blanc. [Plan a multi-night route from Gîte du col de la Forclaz](/app?region=mont-blanc&hut=hut_2989).

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).