Huts
The ACC maintains a wide variety of family-friendly huts in alpine meadows, backcountry powder paradises, remote climbers’ refuges and everything in between. You can browse all of our Huts below.
The Hut Experience
Staying in a backcountry hut is a shared, rustic experience. Sleeping, kitchen and living areas are communal, and foam mattresses, cooking and eating utensils are provided. Guests area expected to bring their own sleeping bags, food and personal items.
All of our huts are user-maintained, meaning that the custodial work of keeping the hut clean, chopping firewood and shovelling snow is done by the guests. The ACC provides major service and renovations to all of our huts each year to ensure they are in good repair.
There are no transition days between bookings. Guests are responsible to sanitize before and after use of the huts.
Hut Booking Window
- Reservations can be made up to 180 days in advance by ACC members and up to 90 days in advance by non-members.
- All persons included in hut bookings made more than 90 days in advance must be active members of the ACC at the time of the booking.
- If you make a reservation 180 days in advance, you may call our guest services team to extend the reservation up to a total of 5 nights.
- ACC membership is open to everyone and memberships may be purchased for any persons online.
- ACC memberships are not required to book our huts operated in BC Provincial Parks (Kokanee Glacier Cabin, Conrad Kain Hut, Elk Lakes Cabin, Silver Spray Cabin, Woodbury Cabin). Members and non members have the same booking privileges of 180 days in advance for these locations.
- The booking window for huts within 7 days is not available online. Please call to check availability or make a reservation for bookings within 7 days: 403-678-3200.
Hut Lotteries
Due to high demand, some backcountry huts are booked via a lottery. Huts booked via lottery include Elizabeth Parker Hut, Kokanee Glacier Cabin, and Bill Putnam (Fairy Meadow) Hut.
Kokanee Glacier Cabin and Bill Putnam (Fairy Meadow) Hut are part of a winter lottery system for ski-weeks, and includes reservation for an entire week during the winter lottery period.
Elizabeth Parker Hut is lottery-based booking in the summer due to it’s popularity.
Ski Traverses
To secure accommodations at the huts for a ski traverse, it is necessary to make a reservation that spans multiple huts over multiple days.
Wapta Traverse
The Wapta Traverse is a multi-day expedition that involves staying at up to four different huts along the route. The journey commences at the Peter and Catharine Whyte (Peyto) Hut, where guests embark on their adventure across the Wapta Glacier towards Bow Hut. The traverse continues to the Rob Ritchie (Balfour) Hut, concluding at the Scott Duncan Hut.
Bow-Yoho Traverse
The Bow Yoho Traverse typically takes three days to complete but allows flexibility in terms of the number of days and huts visited. The journey commences at Bow Hut, followed by a traverse across the Wapta Glacier, a visit to the Louise and Richard Guy Hut, and concludes at the Stanley Mitchell Hut.
Membership
- Reservations must accurately reflect the party composition and membership status of each individual in the reservation at the time of booking.
- You will be asked to complete guest details during the reservation process. You will need guest name, membership ID and contact information for every ACC member in your party.
- All reservations will be reviewed by ACC staff to confirm membership status and group composition. If the reservation details do not reflect accurate member status, the reservation may be cancelled.
Our Huts
From $50
Family Friendly
Summer Lottery
Elizabeth Parker Hut
- Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Family Friendly
Summer Lottery
Elizabeth Parker Hut
- 12km
- 400m
- 24
- Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Family Friendly
Stanley Mitchell Hut
- Takkakaw Falls, Yoho National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Family Friendly
Stanley Mitchell Hut
- 11km
- 520m
- 22
- Takkakaw Falls, Yoho National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Glacier Travel
Neil Colgan Hut
- Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
- Summer
From $50
Glacier Travel
Neil Colgan Hut
- 7km
- 1,067m
- 18
- Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
- Summer
From $40
Castle Mountain Hut
- Castle Junction, Banff National Park
- Summer
From $40
Castle Mountain Hut
- 5km
- 914m
- 6
- Castle Junction, Banff National Park
- Summer
From $50
Family Friendly
Cameron Lake Cabin
- Akamina Parkway, Waterton National Park
- Winter
From $50
Family Friendly
Cameron Lake Cabin
- 3km
- 50m
- 6
- Akamina Parkway, Waterton National Park
- Winter
From $50
Glacier Travel
Peter and Catharine Whyte (Peyto) Hut
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Glacier Travel
Peter and Catharine Whyte (Peyto) Hut
- 10km
- 670m
- 18
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Bow Hut
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Bow Hut
- 8km
- 400m
- 30
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Glacier Travel
Rob Ritchie (Balfour) Hut
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $50
Glacier Travel
Rob Ritchie (Balfour) Hut
- 7km
- 580m
- 18
- Bow Lake, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $60
Glacier Travel
Scott Duncan Hut
- Balfour Hut, Banff National Park
- Year Round
From $60
Glacier Travel
Scott Duncan Hut
- 26km
- 610m
- 12
- Balfour Hut, Banff National Park
- Year Round
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The ACC operates the largest network of backcountry huts in North America, which includes a wide variety of family-friendly huts in alpine meadows, backcountry powder paradises, remote climbers’ refuges and everything in between.
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Conditions May Apply
- All payments for ski weeks are 100% non-refundable once processed.
- Pricing is subject to change without notice.
- The Alpine Club of Canada reserves the right to cancel any trip.
- Dates are non-transferable.
- The ACC does not refund or discount any ski week bookings due to weather, flight delays or other situations beyond our control.
