[Regions](/regions/) › [Mercantour](/regions/mercantour/) › Refuge des lacs de Vens [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=mercantour&hut=hut_1368)

# Refuge des lacs de Vens

2380 m · sleeps 45 · [Mercantour](/regions/mercantour/) · FR

We read this hut's calendar every day: 21 nights with space in the next 60 days, the next one on 6 Sep. The 4 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 des lacs de Vens is an alpine hut at 2380 m in the Mercantour, FR. 4 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.

21 nights with space in the next 60 days.

September: 21 nights

[Book directly with the hut](https://centrale.ffcam.fr/index.php?_lang=FR)

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

## How to book

You book Refuge des lacs de Vens directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.

[Open the booking system for this hut](https://centrale.ffcam.fr/index.php?_lang=FR)

Or contact the hut directly: [refugedevens@ffcam.fr](mailto:refugedevens@ffcam.fr), +33 6 37 67 91 74.

## Walkable from here

- [Refuge-Hôtel de Bayasse](/huts/refuge-hotel-de-bayasse/) - 9h59, 26.46 km, +1464 m
- [Gîte d'étape de Roya "Ma Vieille école"](/huts/gite-d-etape-de-roya-ma-vieille-ecole/) - 10h36, 25.39 km, +2673 m
- [La Ferme des Louiqs](/huts/la-ferme-des-louiqs/) - 11h53, 29.77 km, +2460 m
- [Refuge de la Cantonnière](/huts/refuge-de-la-cantonniere/) - 12h09, 29.93 km, +2721 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=mercantour&hut=hut_1368)

[See the whole Mercantour network](/regions/mercantour/)

## About Mercantour

15 huts connected by 22 walking routes in the Mercantour massif.

## Planning a route through Refuge des lacs de Vens

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 des lacs de Vens there are 4 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Mercantour network of 15 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 2 other huts in Mercantour. [Plan a multi-night route from Refuge des lacs de Vens](/app?region=mercantour&hut=hut_1368).

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).