Refuge de la Balme
1706 m · sleeps 40 · Beaufortain · FR
We read this hut's calendar every day: 2 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 11 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.
Refuge de la Balme is an alpine hut at 1706 m in the Beaufortain, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Availability
Last checked: 4 September 2026
Next night with space: 11 September 2026.
2 nights with space in the next 60 days.
September: 2 nights
Availability is checked daily but can change at any moment - always confirm directly with the hut when booking.
How to book
You book Refuge de la Balme directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: [email protected], +334 50 47 03 54.
Walkable from here
- Refuge des Prés - 0h56, 2.16 km, +270 m
- Refuge de Nant-Borrant - 1h02, 2.49 km, +253 m
- Auberge La Roselette - 1h55, 5.07 km, +281 m
- Refuge de la Gittaz - 2h52, 8.12 km, +731 m
- Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie - 3h05, 7.78 km, +626 m
- Refuge de la Nova - 3h40, 10.61 km, +842 m
- Chalet du Berger - 3h49, 10.96 km, +883 m
- Refuge de Plan Mya - 4h02, 11.69 km, +887 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.
About Beaufortain
26 huts connected by 184 walking routes in the Beaufortain massif.
Planning a route through Refuge de la Balme
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 Refuge de la Balme there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Beaufortain network of 26 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 8 other huts in Beaufortain. Plan a multi-night route from Refuge de la Balme.
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, and the endpoint is documented in the OpenAPI spec.