[Regions](/regions/) › [Vanoise](/regions/vanoise/) › Refuge du Vallonbrun [Open in the HutScanner map](/app?region=vanoise&hut=hut_1142) # Refuge du Vallonbrun 2272 m · sleeps 37 · [Vanoise](/regions/vanoise/) · FR We read this hut's calendar every day: 17 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 du Vallonbrun is an alpine hut at 2272 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. 17 nights with space in the next 60 days. September: 17 nights [Book directly with the hut](https://refuge-vallonbrun.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 du Vallonbrun 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-vallonbrun.vanoise.com/) Or contact the hut directly: [refuge.vallonbrun@vanoise-parcnational.fr](mailto:refuge.vallonbrun@vanoise-parcnational.fr). ## Walkable from here - [Refuge l'Auberge de Bellecombe](/huts/refuge-l-auberge-de-bellecombe/) - 6h16, 16.42 km, +1002 m - [Gîte de la Bâtisse](/huts/gite-de-la-batisse/) - 6h36, 17.21 km, +1078 m - [Refuge du Lac Blanc](/huts/refuge-du-lac-blanc/) - 6h45, 17.78 km, +1034 m - [Refuge du Plan du Lac](/huts/refuge-du-plan-du-lac/) - 6h50, 18.19 km, +962 m - [Refuge de l'Arpont](/huts/refuge-de-l-arpont/) - 7h53, 20.01 km, +1518 m - [Refuge d'Entre Deux Eaux](/huts/refuge-d-entre-deux-eaux/) - 8h14, 21.59 km, +1288 m - [Chalet de Bonneval sur Arc](/huts/chalet-de-bonneval-sur-arc/) - 8h51, 23.65 km, +1206 m - [Refuge de la Femma](/huts/refuge-de-la-femma/) - 9h51, 26.02 km, +1470 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_1142) [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 du Vallonbrun 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 Vallonbrun 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 du Vallonbrun](/app?region=vanoise&hut=hut_1142). 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).