Where to shelter in the mountains
Mountain huts and shelters of the Carpathians
Huts (kolyby), mountain shelters, foresters’ cabins and weather shelters in the Ukrainian Carpathians: where to spend the night or wait out the rain, whether there is a stove and bunks, how many people fit and whether it is open. Updated from hikers’ reports.
1 197 huts and shelters · 741 of them near the site’s trails
Springs of the CarpathiansFilters
Found: 1 197
Hut · ChyvchynyHut on Polonyna HromovytsiaRuinedHoloshynaHut · ChyvchynyHut on Polonyna DoshchynaNot verifiedHoloshynaHut · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut SaraichykStandingSleeps up to 10LopukhivHut · ChyvchynyHut below Mount YavoraNot verifiedHoloshynaHut · Polonyna KrasnaHut below Mount DarvaikaRuinedNehrovetsCabin · ChyvchynyLoggers' house on Polonyna ChornaNot verifiedSometimes lockedHoloshynaHut · SvydovetsForester's hut ShpanskaStandingSleeps up to 5Ust-ChornaHut · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut Polonyny BenynStandingSleeps up to 3LopukhivHut · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut OpchynaStandingSleeps up to 10LopukhivHut · GorganyForester's hut UriaStandingSleeps up to 6LopukhivHut · GorganyForester's hut PrelukaStandingSleeps up to 8OsmolodaHut · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut ArshychnaStandingSleeps up to 10LopukhivHut · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut DovhyiStandingSleeps up to 10LopukhivHut · GorganyHut on Polonyna ValovaStandingHas a stoveBukoveHut · SvydovetsForester's hut MatyiashchykStandingSleeps up to 4Ust-ChornaHut · ChornohoraHut on Polonyna BursuchynaNot verifiedPrivate, ask permissionVorokhtaHut · GorganyHut at BoiarskeRuinedPasichnaHut · Pokuttia-Bukovina CarpathiansHut (Shepit)Not verifiedShepitHut · GorganyForester's hut at Turbatsyl (2)StandingSleeps up to 6LopukhivHut · GorganyForester's hut LiakhovStandingSleeps up to 5OsmolodaHut · GorganyForester's hut at TurbatsylStandingSleeps up to 3LopukhivHut · SvydovetsForester's hut ShasynStandingSleeps up to 3LopukhivCabin · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut BystrykStandingSleeps up to 10LopukhivHut · SvydovetsForester's hut ShpanchykStandingSleeps up to 12Ust-Chorna
Staying in a hut
- A hut is not a hotel: its condition changes every year, so carry a tent and sleeping bag even if you plan to sleep under a roof.
- In summer shepherds live on the meadows — ask for permission instead of taking over their home.
- Use the stove carefully, never leave fire unattended and check that the chimney draws.
- Leave firewood, a clean floor and a closed door — the way you would like to find it.
Data sources
Map and part of the data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence. Hut details were collected by the hiking community; we retell them in our own words and keep them current from your reports. Photos from Wikimedia Commons; authors and licences are given under each photo.
