Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie
Beaufortain · FR
- Altitude
- 1,164 m
- Sleeping places
- 24
- Phone
- 04 50 47 00 88
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.8169, 6.7249
- Booking method
- Online calendar
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 9 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.
Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie is an alpine hut at 1164 m in the Beaufortain, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Walkable from here
- Refuge de Nant-Borrant - 2h05, 5.37 km, +381 m
- Auberge La Roselette - 2h14, 6.72 km, +81 m
- Refuge de Porcherey - 2h32, 5.82 km, +732 m
- Refuge de la Balme - 3h05, 7.78 km, +626 m
- Refuge du Mont-Joly - 3h19, 7.47 km, +1023 m
- Refuge des Prés - 3h29, 8.34 km, +879 m
- Refuge de la Croix de Pierre - 5h51, 14.54 km, +1252 m
- Refuge de Bellastat - 6h13, 15.66 km, +1256 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 Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
Or contact the hut directly: chaletdescontamines@ffcam.fr, 04 50 47 00 88.
About Beaufortain
26 huts connected by 184 walking routes in the Beaufortain massif.
Guides for this region: The Alps are not full, they are concentrated · How to plan a hut-to-hut Tour du Mont Blanc trek
Planning a route through Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie
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 Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Beaufortain network of 26 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.
Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 9 huts in Beaufortain that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. Plan a multi-night route from Refuge Caf des Contamines-Montjoie.
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?
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