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 · GorganyHut on Polonyna Vesnarka (2)Not verifiedOpen fire inside (smoke hut)Polianytsia (Bukovel) · Near trailsHut · Watershed RidgeHut (Lubnya)Standing2020Has a stoveSleeps up to 5Lubnya · Near trailsCabin · ChyvchynyBorder guards' hut on Mount TomnatykNot verifiedSarata · Near trailsHut · ChyvchynyHut on Polonyna HadzhuhyRuinedHoloshyna · Near trailsHut · GorganyForester's hut PodeshurnyiStandingSleeps up to 5Osmoloda · Near trailsHut · ChyvchynyHut on Polonyna PreluchnyiNot verifiedSarata · Near trailsMountain shelter · ChornohoraMountain shelter at MedvezhekNot verifiedBurkut · Near trailsHut · ChornohoraHut at MedvezhekNot verifiedBurkut · Near trailsWeather shelter · ChornohoraWeather shelter at PohoriletsNot verifiedBurkut · Near trailsHut · GorganyForester's hut MarmurStandingSleeps up to 5Lopukhiv · Near trailsCabin · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut PozharovaStandingSleeps up to 10Lopukhiv · Near trailsCabin · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut Ust-PlaiskaStandingSleeps up to 4Lopukhiv · Near trailsHut · ChyvchynyHut below Mount ChyvchynNot verifiedKhutir Burkut · Near trailsHut · GorganyForester's hut HladynStandingSleeps up to 4Lopukhiv · Near trailsHut · GorganyForester's hut KomarnykStandingSleeps up to 5Osmoloda · Near trailsHut · GorganyForester's hut PerekhresnyiStandingSleeps up to 5Osmoloda · Near trailsHut · MarmarosyHut on Polonyna Rehieska VelykaNot verifiedBurkut · Near trailsHut · SvydovetsForester's hut TorhovytsiaStandingSleeps up to 20Lopukhiv · Near trailsHut · ChyvchynyHut pratsivnykiv Nats parkuNot verifiedPaid overnight stayKhutir Burkut · Near trailsHut · SvydovetsForester's hut BerliaskaStandingSleeps up to 3Lopukhiv · Near trailsHut · Polonyna KrasnaHut on Mount SvidovaRuinedLopukhiv · Near trailsHut · Polonyna KrasnaHut on Mount TorhovytsiaStandingSleeps up to 4Lopukhiv · Near trailsHut · ChornohoraHut by the Skorushynka riverNot verifiedYavirnyk (Shybene) · Near trailsCabin · Polonyna KrasnaForester's hut SyhlianskaStandingSleeps up to 5Lopukhiv · Near trails
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.
