Dors Dehors — Mountain Huts

Dehors Studio

About this app

Dors Dehors is the collaborative map of mountain huts, bothies and bivouac spots across France and the Alps.

Whether you are planning a multi-day traverse or a single day out, the app answers one question: where to sleep, and where to find water.

▪ OVER 180,000 MAPPED PLACES

— Nearly 5,900 unstaffed huts, barns, shepherds' cabins and shelters, free to use
— Over 1,400 staffed mountain refuges, with contact details and opening season
— Over 1,400 gîtes d'étape along the long-distance trails
— Over 15,000 campsites
— Over 160,000 water points: springs, fountains, troughs
— Bivouac spots, and tricky sections flagged by the community

▪ ACROSS THE RANGES

The French Alps, the Pyrenees, Corsica, the Massif Central, the Jura and the Vosges — and across the borders into Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Andorra.

Vanoise, Écrins, Mercantour, Queyras, Mont Blanc, Chartreuse, Vercors, Aravis, Ubaye, Ariège, Béarn, Cerdagne...

▪ ON THE LONG-DISTANCE TRAILS

25 mapped GR routes with accommodation stage by stage: GR5 (Grande Traversée des Alpes), GR10 (Pyrenean traverse), GR20 (Corsica), GR52, GR54 (Tour des Écrins), GR58 (Tour du Queyras), Tour du Mont Blanc, GR65 (Camino), GR70 (Stevenson Trail), GR7, GR9, GR96...

▪ BUILT FOR THE MOUNTAINS, SO BUILT FOR OFFLINE

Coverage usually stops where the walking starts. Download your maps before you leave: they stay available with no connection.

▪ FREE

— Interactive map of every place
— Search by name, range or national park
— Detailed pages: access, facilities, altitude, capacity, condition
— 3-day weather forecast on every page
— GR routes with their list of huts
— GPX track import and export
— Favourites and contributions

▪ DORS DEHORS PREMIUM (€19/year)

— Unlimited offline maps
— IGN topographic base map
— GPX import showing the huts along your track
— Stage planner with detailed weather

▪ A MAP YOU HELP BUILD

A cabin burnt down, a spring ran dry, a refuge changed warden? Correct the page, add a photo, leave a review. Every contribution is reviewed, and serves the walkers who come next.

▪ WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM

Places come from OpenStreetMap, refuges.info, alpine clubs, national and regional parks, official regional sources and user contributions. Every page lists its sources.

See you out there.