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# Refuge du Clôt des Vaches

2253 m · sleeps 30 · [Cerces](/regions/cerces/) · FR

You can walk to 8 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 2 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.

Refuge du Clôt des Vaches is an alpine hut at 2253 m in the Cerces, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## How to book

You book Refuge du Clôt des Vaches 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.refugeclotdesvaches.com/)

Or contact the hut directly: [contact@refugeclotdesvaches.com](mailto:contact@refugeclotdesvaches.com), +33 6 66 69 11 73.

## Walkable from here

- [Refuge du Chardonnet](/huts/refuge-du-chardonnet/) - 2h28, 6.19 km, +494 m
- [Refuge du Lautaret](/huts/refuge-du-lautaret/) - 3h21, 9.23 km, +347 m
- [Refuge de Ricou](/huts/refuge-de-ricou/) - 3h53, 9.57 km, +858 m
- [Refuge de Laval](/huts/refuge-de-laval/) - 4h08, 10.37 km, +846 m
- [Refuge des Drayères](/huts/refuge-des-drayeres/) - 4h28, 11.58 km, +747 m
- [Refuge Buffère](/huts/refuge-buffere/) - 4h28, 11.13 km, +938 m
- [Refuge du Galibier](/huts/refuge-du-galibier/) - 5h29, 13.74 km, +1138 m
- [Refuge de Terre Rouge](/huts/refuge-de-terre-rouge/) - 7h50, 20.4 km, +1300 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=cerces&hut=hut_10253)

[See the whole Cerces network](/regions/cerces/)

## About Cerces

14 huts connected by 62 walking routes in the Cerces massif.

## Planning a route through Refuge du Clôt des Vaches

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 du Clôt des Vaches there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Cerces network of 14 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.

Refuge du Clôt des Vaches books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 2 huts in Cerces that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. [Plan a multi-night route from Refuge du Clôt des Vaches](/app?region=cerces&hut=hut_10253).

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).