Rifugio Alpe di Tires

Rifugio Alpe di Tires is an alpine hut in Val Gardena. It sits at 2440 m. Typical season: May-mid Oct. Reported capacity: 80 beds.

Hut to hut on foot

Nearest staffed huts on walking trails from Rifugio Alpe di Tires: Rifugio Molignon (~1 h 36 min), Rifugio Bolzano (Schlernhaus) (~2 h 24 min), Grasleitenhütte - Rifugio Bergamo (~2 h 33 min).

Estimated times for an average hiker, based on distance and elevation.

Staying at Rifugio Alpe di Tires

The Rosengarten crossroads with better beds than you expect: eighty places, a proper kitchen, and ferrata country starting behind the house.

Alpe di Tires sits on the Tierser Alpl saddle between the Schlern, the Rosengarten and the Seiser Alm, which is a grand way of saying it occupies one of the west Dolomites' most useful pieces of terrain. Built from 1957 and opened in 1963 after Max Aichner hauled materials up by hand, it still feels like a hut born from stubbornness rather than easy access. Today it works as both a real crossing point and a surprisingly comfortable base: Rifugio Bolzano one way, the Rosengarten and Duron side the other, with the Rosszahn ridge directly overhead.

Staying the night

About 80 beds split between private rooms and larger dormitory-style rooms. The comfort level is higher than the setting suggests: fresh bed linen throughout, towels in the smaller rooms, some rooms with shower and washbasin, and paid hot showers available for the rest. Corridor bathrooms remain part of the deal in many categories, so this is comfortable-for-a-hut, not a disguised hotel.

The food

One of the more ambitious kitchens at this altitude. The Perathoner family leans hard into South Tyrolean cooking with a Mediterranean nudge, using local meat and cured meats, herbs from their own garden, house-made desserts and a real wine cellar rather than a token one. This is a hut where dinner matters.

Booking reality

The online booking engine makes logistics easy, but summer demand is real because the hut works for both hut-to-hut trekkers and comfort-seeking day walkers. July through early September is the period to think ahead, and the deposit is explicitly non-refundable. Open from May into mid-October.

Getting there

Most classic approaches take 2.5–3.5 h: from Compatsch on the Seiser Alm in ~2.5 h, from Saltria in ~2.5 h, from Tiers through the Val Ciamin in ~3.5 h, or from Campitello via Val Duron and Micheluzzi in ~3.5 h. The via ferrata Maximilian starts right behind the hut, and the route towards Rifugio Antermoia carries on through proper Rosengarten terrain.

Good to know

• Dogs are only accepted on request, and not at all in high season from June 21 to mid-September.
• If you book half board, you can still switch on site to bed-and-breakfast and eat a la carte instead.
• This is a hut for strong weather days and strong views: the saddle catches both light and wind.