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Hiking refuges

Hiker's refuges are accommodation facilities that can be assimilated to alpine refuges, thus offering accommodation and food services, and that are located in areas that are accessible by roads open to ordinary traffic, albeit for limited periods of the year, or that have exceeded the maximum structural parameters for alpine refuges.

Publication date:

22/05/2025

Topics

Rifugio Bedole "Adamello Collini" (archivio fotografico Servizio turismo e sport) — © Provincia autonoma di Trento - Servizio Turismo e sport -

Description

The qualification of excursion refuge is an exhaustive classification. This category includes two types of facilities

hiking refuges that were already classified as such before 2008 (the year in which the new regulation governing alpine facilities came into force);
former alpine huts that did not comply with the new maximum structural and functional parameters introduced in 2008 (e.g. rooms with reserved bathroom, maximum volume per bed exceeding the regulatory maximum, etc.).

It is therefore currently not possible to register facilities that were not previously alpine refuges as hiking refuges.

Provincial law provides that the regulations for mountain huts apply to hiking refuges with regard to the services offered to guests and the obligations placed on the manager.

Provincial list of hiking refuges