Mercantour
15 huts · 22 walking routes · FR · season 1 June 2026 to 30 September 2026
15 huts connected by 22 walking routes in the Mercantour massif.
3 of 15 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.
- Prenota Rifugi CAI (1 hut here): No single date. Each rifugio opens its own availability calendar on the portal; until it does, the page shows the information sheet only and booking is by phone or email. A deposit by card is required to book. Each rifugio sets its own cancellation terms and penalties, shown on its page. Checked against the portal on 27 August 2026.
- Independent refuges (12 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.
Once a portal opens, the Mercantour 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 Mercantour network
| Hut | Altitude | Sleeps | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gite de la Colle st Michel | 1430 m | 56 | book online |
| Gîte d'étape de Roya "Ma Vieille école" | 1500 m | 22 | book online |
| La Ferme des Louiqs | 1690 m | 14 | book online |
| Refuge Dahu de Sabarnui | 1702 m | 21 | contact hut |
| Refuge Guglielmo Migliorero | 2100 m | 88 | monitored |
| Refuge de Congerman | 1850 m | 13 | contact hut |
| Refuge de Longon (Vacherie de Roure) | 1883 m | 35 | contact hut |
| Refuge de la Cantonnière | 1850 m | 36 | contact hut |
| Refuge de la Cayolle | 2266 m | 32 | contact hut |
| Refuge des lacs de Vens | 2380 m | 45 | live-checked |
| Refuge du Rabuons | 2523 m | 36 | live-checked |
| Refuge du col d'Allos | 2250 m | 40 | contact hut |
| Refuge du lac d'Allos | 2228 m | 42 | contact hut |
| Refuge-Hôtel de Bayasse | 1800 m | 36 | contact hut |
| Rifugio san Giuseppe | 2016 m | 28 | contact hut |
Planning a hut-to-hut route in the Mercantour
Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: across these 15 huts and 22 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. 3 of the 15 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.