Refuge Elena
2061 m · sleeps 127 · Italy · Alpes-Peninnes network
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 Elena is an alpine hut at 2061 m in Italy, reached from the Alpes-Peninnes network. 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
Availability is checked daily but can change at any moment - always confirm directly with the hut when booking.
How to book
You book Refuge Elena directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: [email protected], +39 0165 844688.
Walkable from here
- Refuge Walter Bonatti - 2h49, 7.29 km, +474 m
- Refuge Giorgio Bertone - 6h38, 17.08 km, +1186 m
- Pensione Venezia - 8h42, 21.04 km, +2111 m
- Gîte-Maison d'accueil de Château-Verdun - 10h22, 25.12 km, +2478 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 the Alpes-Peninnes network
Refuge Elena is in Italy. It is routed in our Alpes-Peninnes network, which is why it is listed here: the walking times above come from that network.
15 huts connected by 14 walking routes in the Alpes-Peninnes massif.
Planning a route through Refuge Elena
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 Elena there are 4 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside an Alpes-Peninnes 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 5 other huts in Alpes-Peninnes. Plan a multi-night route from Refuge Elena.
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.