Find alpine huts with space, and a route that links them
One search across the alpine clubs' booking systems, then a walking route that actually joins the huts that have beds.
Free this season, on the web and on Android and iOS.
The planner with a Tour du Mont Blanc chain. Availability is checked live in the app; this screenshot is an example.
Booking a hut-to-hut trek means checking a different reservation system for every hut, on every night, and starting again when one of them is full. HutScanner checks them for you and links the huts by real walking routes, so you can see which sequences work before you start booking.
Plan it on the web, walk it with your phone
The things that matter are on both: the whole alpine hut network across 66 regions, availability synced daily, chains of huts that have beds on consecutive nights, and routes computed over real trail data with grades - so a "shortcut" across a glacier is labelled as one. What follows is what each one is better at.
In your browser
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Nothing to install
Open it and start planning. No app store, no account, no sign-up - and a big screen for the part that involves a lot of dates.
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The route in detail
Elevation profiles for each day and for the whole trip end to end, every alternative line for a leg, and the terrain grade behind each one.
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Share a plan by link
Send the itinerary to whoever you are walking with. They do not need the app, or an account, to open it.
On your phone
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Works with no signal
The maps, the hut network and your routes are bundled onto the device. The valleys worth walking are the ones without a bar of reception, and that is where a plan has to survive.
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The hut's details in the valley
Phone numbers, booking pages and opening seasons come with the pack, so you can still ring ahead from the trail when a night falls through.
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The same trip, either place
Build it on a laptop at home and it is on the phone in your pocket. Availability catches itself up the next time you have a connection.
Get the app
Free this season, on Android and iOS.
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Know when the huts open before they fill
The stages everyone walks are booked out months ahead, and every hut opens its season on its own schedule. At most one email a month, from the same daily sync the planner runs on.
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The availability picture
Which regions still have beds on the popular nights, which are filling, and where the quiet ground is.
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New regions before anywhere else
When a region pack goes live it is in that month's letter first.
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No account, and no other mail
An address is all we take. We send a link to confirm, and every issue has a one-click way out.
Watch: the HutScanner walkthrough
A walkthrough of the planner, start to finish.
Start from a classic route
Open one of these and the map draws the line, the huts along it, and where there is space right now.
- Tour du Mont Blanc The classic circuit of the Mont Blanc massif, through France, Italy and Switzerland. Every stage ends at a hut or gite you can book. Open on the map →
- Walker's Haute Route Chamonix to Zermatt on foot, across eleven passes. Most nights are in valley towns rather than huts, so we show the line and let you build the chain. Open on the map →
Browse by region
- Carnic Alps 541 huts
- Hohe Tauern 340 huts
- Adamello & Presanella 200 huts
- Bergamo Alps (Orobie) 200 huts
- Dachstein / Schladming Tauern 194 huts
- Pyrenees 177 huts
- Val di Fiemme & Lagorai 175 huts
- Dolomiti Bellunesi & Friulane 167 huts
- Allgaeu Alps 146 huts
- Ticino / Lepontine Alps 143 huts
- Dolomiti Orientali (Cortina / Tre Cime) 139 huts
- Sarntaler Alpen 127 huts
- Engadin / Pontresina 115 huts
- Ossola & Val Formazza 114 huts
- Valais / Zermatt 111 huts
- Dolomiti di Brenta 108 huts
- Berchtesgaden / Chiemgauer Alps 106 huts
- Karwendel & Wetterstein 104 huts
- Tour du Mont Blanc 101 huts
- Haute Route (Chamonix–Zermatt) 88 huts
- Graubunden / Davos 78 huts
- Otztal & Stubai Alps 77 huts
- Uri / Glarus Alps 73 huts
- Ortler / Stelvio 71 huts
- Garda Pre-Alps & Monte Baldo 69 huts
- Haslital & Engelberg 64 huts
- Bernese Oberland 62 huts
- Silvretta / Montafon 48 huts
- Kungsleden (Kings Trail) 46 huts
- Mont-Blanc 46 huts
- Alpes-bernoises 45 huts
- Ecrins 43 huts
- Alpes-grees-et-Grand-Paradis 39 huts
- Vanoise 38 huts
- Zillertal Alps 34 huts
- Alpes-Valaisannes 32 huts
- Vercors 28 huts
- Sesvenna 27 huts
- Beaufortain 26 huts
- Giffre 26 huts
- Bornes-Aravis 24 huts
- Jura 23 huts
- Alpes-de-Fribourg 19 huts
- Alpes-cotiennes 18 huts
- Alpes-Peninnes 15 huts
- Chablais 15 huts
- Mercantour 15 huts
- Bauges 14 huts
- Cerces 14 huts
- Picos de Europa (N. Spain) 14 huts
- Queyras-et-Escreins 14 huts
- Belledonne 12 huts
- Diois-et-Baronnies 12 huts
- Devoluy 11 huts
- Argentera 9 huts
- Mont-Cenis 9 huts
- Trois-Eveches 8 huts
- Arves 7 huts
- Monges 6 huts
- Bugey 5 huts
- Grandes-Rousses 4 huts
- Lauziere 4 huts
- Ventoux-et-monts-de-Vaucluse 4 huts
- Aiguilles-rouges 3 huts
- Buech-et-Gapencais 3 huts
- Chartreuse 3 huts
Questions
- How do you know which huts have space?
We read the huts' own booking systems, the alpine club portal, the Italian CAI system, the French club systems and several individual hut engines, and refresh them daily. It is a best-effort guide, not a reservation: you still book with the hut, and you should always confirm with them directly.
- Does it book the huts for me?
No. It finds the nights that work and links you straight to each hut's own reservation page. Booking, payment and cancellation all happen with the hut.
- What does it cost?
It is free this season to use, on the web and on Android and iOS.
- Does it work without a phone signal?
The mobile app bundles the maps and the hut network, so your route and the map still work in a valley with no coverage. Live availability needs a connection, so check it before you set off.
- When should I book an alpine hut?
For popular routes in July and August, weeks to months ahead. Many huts open their season's bookings in the spring and the well-known stages fill first. Quieter regions and shoulder-season dates are often bookable much later.
- Which areas are covered?
The Alps, across France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Slovenia, with the Pyrenees and Scandinavia in preview.
Pick a route, and see which nights are actually bookable
Free this season, on the web and on Android and iOS.