Capanna La Ginestra
- Altitude
- 985 m
- Sleeping places
- 28
- Country
- Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 46.0867, 8.9819
- Booking method
- The hut's own website
Book at the hut's own booking page Open in the HutScanner map
You can walk to 8 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 58 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.
Capanna La Ginestra is an alpine hut at 985 m in the Ticino / Lepontine Alps, CH. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Walkable from here
- Capanna Monte Bar - 2h04, 4.37 km, +766 m
- Alpe Bolla - 4h01, 10.37 km, +687 m
- Baita del Luca - 4h15, 11.08 km, +702 m
- Baita Scoiattoli - 4h16, 11.11 km, +702 m
- Rifugio Garzirola - 4h44, 10.46 km, +1560 m
- Capanna Pairolo - 5h08, 12.76 km, +1092 m
- Rifugio San Lucio - 5h22, 13.03 km, +1288 m
- Capanna San Lucio - 5h23, 13.07 km, +1286 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.
How to book
You book Capanna La Ginestra directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
About Ticino / Lepontine Alps
170 huts connected by 448 walking routes in the Ticino / Lepontine Alps 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 La Ginestra
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 La Ginestra there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Ticino / Lepontine Alps network of 170 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 La Ginestra books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 58 huts in Ticino / Lepontine Alps that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. Plan a multi-night route from Capanna La Ginestra.
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.
Something wrong on this page?
If a detail here is out of date or wrong - the phone number, the bed count, whether the hut is open - tell us and we will correct it. Wardens and hut associations can also ask for anything to be changed or removed: see the page for hut wardens.