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Mountain huts near Lepontine Alps

140 shelters within 30 km of Lepontine Alps, 61 of them wardened. Every altitude, bed count and season below comes from the shelters' own records.

A wardened refuge has a keeper, meals and blankets only inside the months shown, and is shut or reduced to an unheated winter room outside them. Where a season is not published we say so rather than guess. Confirm with the refuge before you go.

Getting there

13 stops within 20 km of the centre, on these lines.

Rail
RE80 Locarno-Lugano-Chiasso-Milano Centrale · S10 Biasca-Bellinzona-Lugano-Chiasso-Como S.Giovanni · S11 Como-Milano-Rho · S30 Cadenazzo-Luino-Gallarate · S40 Como-Mendrisio-Varese · S50 Biasca-Bellinzona-Lugano-Varese-Malpensa
Bus
TN Bus

Nearest stops Biasca (7.3 km) · Castione (8.2 km) · Bellinzona (10.8 km) · S.Antonino (14.0 km)

Timetables published by Trenord (Lombardia). Other operators may also serve this area — this is what the open feeds carry, not a complete list.

What the terrain demands

Paths around here are graded from ⁦T1⁩ to ⁦T6⁩ on the SAC hiking scale. 23% of the graded terrain is ⁦T3⁩ or harder — past the point where a waymarked path is all it takes.

Grades from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). They describe the terrain around the area, not any one route.

24 within 10 km

83 more, 10 to 25 km out

33 further out

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