Bornes-Aravis
20 huts · 75 walking routes · FR · season 1 June 2026 to 30 September 2026
20 huts connected by 75 walking routes in the Bornes-Aravis massif.
4 of 20 huts in this region have live-checked availability.
When do 2027 reservations open
- FFCAM central reservation (2 huts here): No single date. Each refuge opens its own online calendar from late January onwards; most FFCAM refuge sites publish a guarding season but no booking-opening date at all. A deposit is paid online at booking. Cancellations inside the refuge's contractual period are not refunded. Checked 27 August 2026. The portal itself publishes no opening date, so treat the timing as unconfirmed.
- Independent refuges (16 huts here): No portal and no common date. Each refuge takes bookings on its own terms; check the hut's own page or contact details.
- Refuges with a booking calendar on their own website (2 huts here): No shared portal and no common date. Each of these refuges runs its own booking calendar on its own website and opens the coming season when it chooses; the hut page here links straight to it.
Once a portal opens, the Bornes-Aravis map in HutScanner will show which of these huts still have beds on consecutive nights, so you can check a chain before you book on the portal.
Huts in the Bornes-Aravis network
| Hut | Altitude | Sleeps | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpage du Freu | 1690 m | 39 | contact hut |
| Chalet Refuge de Cenise | 1617 m | 19 | contact hut |
| Chalet d'Ablon | 1400 m | 40 | |
| La ferme du Danay | 1561 m | 19 | contact hut |
| Les Mangeurs de Lune | 1750 m | 24 | contact hut |
| Refuge Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | 1473 m | 40 | contact hut |
| Refuge de Doran | 1495 m | 60 | live-checked |
| Refuge de Larrieux | 1532 m | 35 | contact hut |
| Refuge de Lessy | 1760 m | 19 | contact hut |
| Refuge de Mayse | 1476 m | 19 | |
| Refuge de Mayères | 1600 m | 52 | monitored |
| Refuge de Praz Dzeures | 1750 m | 25 | book online |
| Refuge de Spée | 1470 m | 35 | contact hut |
| Refuge de l'Arpettaz | 1581 m | 39 | book online |
| Refuge de l'Aulp de Marlens | 1657 m | 20 | contact hut |
| Refuge de la Bombardellaz | 1620 m | 27 | contact hut |
| Refuge de la Pointe Percée ou Gramusset | 2162 m | 48 | live-checked |
| Refuge des Fontanettes | 1485 m | 19 | contact hut |
| Refuge du Lindion | 1123 m | 30 | book online |
| Refuge du Parmelan / Camille Dunant | 1825 m | 49 | live-checked |
Planning a hut-to-hut route in the Bornes-Aravis
Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: across these 20 huts and 75 walking routes, 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. HutScanner searches the whole network for a sequence that works on your dates, shifting the dates or swapping in a neighbouring hut when a chain does not hold, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time. 4 of the 20 huts here publish a calendar HutScanner can read, so those nights are checked rather than guessed; the rest are mapped and routable, and confirmed with the hut.
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.