Rifugio Antermoia

Rifugio Antermoia is an alpine hut in the municipality of Mazzin. It sits at 2497 m. Typical season: 11 June to 9 October 2027. Reported capacity: 60 beds.

Hut to hut on foot

Nearest staffed huts on walking trails from Rifugio Antermoia: Rifugio Dona (~1 h 36 min), Rifugio Passo Principe - Grasleitenpasshütte (~2 h 21 min), Rifugio Vajolet (~3 h 03 min).

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

Staying at Rifugio Antermoia

The quiet side of the Catinaccio: a high stone valley, the group’s only lake, and windows that all face the rock.

Cross Passo Principe from the busy Vajolet side and the crowds simply evaporate. Rifugio Antermoia sits in a lunar upper valley at just under 2,500 m, ten minutes from Lago di Antermoia, one of the highest lakes in the Dolomites: a cold turquoise eye in the scree that mirrors the Catinaccio’s towers on still mornings. This is the hut for people who found the famous places too loud.

Staying the night

Small and well kept: family rooms of 3–5 beds and a 12-bed dorm, shared bathrooms with showers, and, a nice touch, every room’s window frames the massif. There’s WiFi and charging points, but the real amenity is silence. Once the through-hikers move on, the valley is yours.

The food

Ladin kitchen (canederli, game, homemade desserts) with a proper small wine list. Cooking for a hut this remote draws consistently warm reviews; dinner is intimate rather than industrial.

Booking reality

The easiest bed among the Catinaccio’s famous names: it’s a genuine mountaineers’ hut with a longer walk from the lifts, so it fills later. Online booking; midweek beds are often still free when Vajolet is full.

Getting there

No shortcuts here: ~2.5–3 h from the Vajolet side over Passo Principe (2,599 m), or up from Val di Fassa (Mazzin/Fontanazzo) through Val Udai, or the long scenic line from the Alpe di Siusi side. Every approach earns the night.

Good to know

• Swim in the lake if you dare; it’s snowmelt, and the dare is the point.
• Sunrise at the lake, ten minutes’ walk, zero people: bring the camera.
• The Vajolet → Antermoia → Val Duron line is one of the best two-day traverses in the western Dolomites.
• One of the longer seasons at this height.