Capanna Grossalp
Capanna Grossalp is closed
Closed (confirmed 2026-07-27).
Recorded by our review on 27 July 2026. Seasons and repairs change, so confirm with the hut on the contact details below before you plan around it.
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If you need a bed in this area, the 8 huts within a day's walk are listed below, and the Ossola & Val Formazza network has 82 in total.
- Altitude
- 1,907 m
- Sleeping places
- 26
- Phone
- +41 91 754 16 80
- Country
- Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 46.3165, 8.4712
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This hut is closed, so it cannot be booked for now. The 8 huts within a day's walk are listed below, and we read the calendars of 41 huts in this network daily.
Capanna Grossalp is an alpine hut at 1907 m in the Ossola & Val Formazza, CH. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Walkable from here
- Rifugio Zum Gora - 4h40, 13.78 km, +1282 m
- Rifugio Miryam - 5h44, 15.82 km, +1556 m
- Capanna Alpe Arena - 7h04, 17.32 km, +1607 m
- Rifugio Bim Se al Lago - 7h58, 20.27 km, +1509 m
- Rifugio Maria Luisa - 8h11, 20.4 km, +1743 m
- Rifugio Monte Zeus - 8h18, 24.91 km, +1782 m
- Rifugio CAI Enrico Castiglioni - 9h07, 26.02 km, +2397 m
- Capanna Corno Gries CAS - 10h58, 28.71 km, +1748 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.
Contacting Capanna Grossalp
We are not showing a booking route for this hut. To ask about reopening, or to check before you set out, contact it directly: info@capannagrossalp.ch, +41 91 754 16 80.
HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
About Ossola & Val Formazza
82 huts connected by 177 walking routes in the Ossola & Val Formazza massif.
Guides for this region: Where alpine huts still have space in high summer · Using HutScanner with ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants
Planning a route through Capanna Grossalp
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 Capanna Grossalp there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside an Ossola & Val Formazza network of 82 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.
Capanna Grossalp is not bookable at the moment, so a route through this area is planned around the 41 huts in Ossola & Val Formazza whose calendars HutScanner reads, and the search will route around this one. Plan a multi-night route through the Ossola & Val Formazza network.
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.
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