Rifugio Barba Ferrero
2247 m · sleeps 26 · Valais / Zermatt · IT
We read this hut's calendar every day, and nothing is showing on the dates ahead. Beds do return as plans change, and the 6 huts within a day's walk below are the alternatives for the same night.
Rifugio Barba Ferrero is an alpine hut at 2247 m in the Valais / Zermatt, IT. 6 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Availability
Last checked: 4 September 2026
No space showing on the checked dates ahead. This can change as bookings are cancelled.
Availability is checked daily but can change at any moment - always confirm directly with the hut when booking.
How to book
You book Rifugio Barba Ferrero directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: +39 0163 91919.
Walkable from here
- Rifugio Pastore - 1h17, 3.85 km, +76 m
- Capanna Fratelli Gugliermina - 1h59, 3.42 km, +100 m
- Rifugio Zar Senni - 3h32, 10.63 km, +718 m
- Rifugio Santino Ferioli - 3h53, 10.77 km, +1180 m
- Rifugio CAI di Saronno - 10h17, 26.37 km, +1868 m
- Rifugio Gaspare Oberto e Paolo Maroli - 11h57, 28.97 km, +2864 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 Valais / Zermatt
The Valais around Zermatt and the Monte Rosa massif holds some of the highest huts in the Alps, spanning the Swiss and Italian sides of the watershed. Swiss huts book through the shared Alpenverein system with live traffic-light availability; the Italian rifugi on the Monte Rosa side mostly book through their own pages or by phone. Many routes here cross glaciated terrain, so check the approach for each hut before you rely on a walking time.
Planning a route through Rifugio Barba Ferrero
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 Rifugio Barba Ferrero there are 6 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Valais / Zermatt network of 107 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 44 other huts in Valais / Zermatt. Plan a multi-night route from Rifugio Barba Ferrero.
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.