[Regions](/regions/) › [Vanoise](/regions/vanoise/) › Refuge de la Leisse [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=vanoise&hut=hut_146) # Refuge de la Leisse 2487 m · sleeps 32 · [Vanoise](/regions/vanoise/) · FR We read this hut's calendar every day: 18 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 5 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 Leisse is an alpine hut at 2487 m in the Vanoise, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day. ## Availability Last checked: 4 September 2026 Next night with space: 5 September 2026. 18 nights with space in the next 60 days. September: 18 nights [Book directly with the hut](https://refuge-leisse.vanoise.com/) 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 Leisse directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds. [Open the hut's booking page](https://refuge-leisse.vanoise.com/) Or contact the hut directly: [refuge.leisse@vanoise-parcnational.fr](mailto:refuge.leisse@vanoise-parcnational.fr), +339 72 40 03 23. ## Walkable from here - [Refuge d'Entre Deux Eaux](/huts/refuge-d-entre-deux-eaux/) - 2h36, 6.72 km, +454 m - [Refuge de la Femma](/huts/refuge-de-la-femma/) - 3h16, 8.48 km, +560 m - [Refuge du Plan du Lac](/huts/refuge-du-plan-du-lac/) - 3h41, 10.04 km, +419 m - [Refuge du Col de la Vanoise](/huts/refuge-du-col-de-la-vanoise/) - 3h53, 10.43 km, +504 m - [Refuge l'Auberge de Bellecombe](/huts/refuge-l-auberge-de-bellecombe/) - 4h29, 12.29 km, +480 m - [Refuge du Lac Blanc](/huts/refuge-du-lac-blanc/) - 5h07, 14.03 km, +550 m - [Refuge du Col du Palet](/huts/refuge-du-col-du-palet/) - 5h11, 13.47 km, +876 m - [Refuge des Barmettes](/huts/refuge-des-barmettes/) - 5h19, 14.7 km, +516 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=vanoise&hut=hut_146) [See the whole Vanoise network](/regions/vanoise/) ## About Vanoise The Vanoise massif in the French Alps holds a dense network of staffed refuges linking the Parc National de la Vanoise with the surrounding valleys. Park huts book through the Vanoise reservation portal; CAF-owned refuges book through the FFCAM system, so a single traverse often spans two booking sites. Reservations are mandatory during the staffed season and two to four months ahead is usually enough for July and August. Guides for this region: [Bivouac or huts in the Vanoise: what the trip really costs](/guides/bivouac-vs-huts-vanoise-cost/) · [Wild camping and bivouac in the Vanoise](/guides/wild-camping-bivouac-vanoise/) ## Planning a route through Refuge de la Leisse 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 Leisse there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Vanoise network of 38 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 25 other huts in Vanoise. [Plan a multi-night route from Refuge de la Leisse](/app?region=vanoise&hut=hut_146). 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).