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Plan your Self-Guided Tour du Mont Blanc Adventure

Stage by stage planning, real-time hut availability, and trail data verified by us on the route. Everything you need to prepare for your self-guided adventure in the Alps.

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Create your custom TMB Itinerary

Everything you need to plan your Tour du Mont Blanc hike with confidence, in one place. Every hut, route, and waypoint verified by us on the trail.

Take a Hike brings everything into one place.

Official routes, variants, hut availability, stage planning, downloadable GPX/PDF files. So you can stop juggling spreadsheets and start planning with confidence.

Create custom itineraries

Design your hike stage by stage. Choose which variants to take, select accommodations or campsites, adjust stage length and direction, and add personal notes for each day.

  • Pick one of our templates or create your own
  • Choose where to start and end your stage
  • View and select variants for each stage
  • See the data for each stage such as distance, elevation and more
  • Add personal notes for each day

Plan clockwise, anti-clockwise, your way.

Accurate Trail Data

We've hiked every route in the planner ourselves. Every waypoint, hut, water source, and viewpoint was added after we walked the stage. Not scraped, not crowd-sourced. You're planning with information that was verified on the ground.

  • Official routes and variants
  • Mountain passes and viewpoints
  • Information about technical section
  • Water sources, groceries and more

No generic maps, only what matters on the trail.

Find huts with real-time availability

Easily find your accommodations: every mountain hut, campsite, and legal bivouac spot are mapped along the route, with all the details you need to plan and book.

  • Real time availability and reservation links for mountain huts
  • Receive email notifications when huts change availability
  • Campsites and legal bivouac spots
  • Facility details like hot showers, bed count, private rooms
  • Generate a list with your selected accommodations
  • Manage the booking status for each stage

No more scrambling to find hut phone numbers at the last minute

Why you are going to love it

A dedicated tool built for long-distance hikes, built by hikers.

Itinerary templates

Not sure where to start? Pick one of our ready-made itineraries, built from our own experience on the trail, and make it yours. Adjust the stages, swap variants, change accommodations, or add your own notes. It’s the quickest way to go from idea to a full plan.

Learn before you go

Everything about your hike, in one place. Each hike has a dedicated page with key stats, highlights, difficulty and more. You’ll find a FAQ on logistics and camping rules, all our trail reports and videos and other resources, and weather history data.

Export GPX files

Get a clean GPS track for your itinerary and use it with your favorite navigation app. Export GPX files for the full route or for each stage, with waypoints for key locations, fully compatible with major navigation apps.

Generate a PDF guidebook

Generate a PDF document with all the information you need for your adventure. Includes stage descriptions, maps and elevation profiles, daily distances and ascent, useful notes and logistics, and a list of your accommodations. Perfect to print or keep on your phone.

National Parks & Protected Areas

Know before you go. We show every national park, nature reserve and protected zone your route crosses. See the rules that apply, like camping and bivouac restrictions, dogs, drones, plus key information about each area, so you can plan your hike responsibly.

Share your Itinerary

generate a shareable link for any itinerary on the Hike Planner, giving friends and fellow hikers a live, view-only version with the interactive map, elevation profile, and all stage details. If you want to share your adventure on social media, you can also generate images in story and post formats, each showing your route and key stats, ready to post.

Fauna & Flora Observations

The Fauna & Flora view maps documented observations of plants and animals across your hiking area, to show you what others have actually spotted along routes like yours, from the smallest alpine wildflowers to the largest mammals roaming the high country.

Weather forecast data

The new Weather view brings real forecast data directly into your route map, showing temperature, precipitation, and wind conditions at the points that matter most: towns, valleys, highest points and mountain passes. This feature gives you a clean weather summary for your hike as a whole, including sunrise and sunset times and total daylight hours.

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Discover the best long-distance hikes

We only add a hike to the planner after walking it ourselves.

Every route, hut, water source, variant, placed by hand, after we were actually there. No scrapping, no guesswork. Plan your hike with accurate data you can trust.

Tour du Mont Blanc
Real-time hut availability

Tour du Mont Blanc

France, Italy, Switzerland

Price

49€

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Alta Via 1 - Dolomites
Real-time hut availability

Alta Via 1 - Dolomites

Italy

Price

39€

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Kungsleden
Real-time hut availability

Kungsleden

Sweden

Price

39€

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Walker's Haute Route
Real-time hut availability

Walker's Haute Route

France, Switzerland

Price

49€

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Anillo de Picos de Europa
Real-time hut availability

Anillo de Picos de Europa

Spain

Price

35€

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Torres del Paine

Torres del Paine

Chile

Price

19€

Laugavegur & Fimmvörðuháls

Laugavegur & Fimmvörðuháls

Iceland

Price

19€

Carros de Foc
Real-time hut availability

Carros de Foc

Spain

Price

25€

Coronallacs

Coronallacs

Andorra

Price

19€

Iso Karhunkierros

Iso Karhunkierros

Finland

Price

19€

La Palma

La Palma

Canary Islands, Spain

Price

19€

Julian Alps
Coming soon

Julian Alps

Slovenia

How our data is different

Most trail apps rely on user uploads, or scrape from third parties. We do it first-hand: we hike every route before it goes into the planner.

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  • Routes hiked by us first

    We don't publish a route until we've done it ourselves.

  • Every pin placed by hand

    Huts, water, campsites, viewpoints, etc, no scrapping.

  • Kept up to date

    We keep checking all the information and make sure it is updated.

Watch how it works

  1. Step 1

    Create your free account

    Sign up and browse all available hikes in the app.

  2. Step 2

    Unlock the hikes you want

    One-time payment per hike. No subscriptions, no hidden fees.

  3. Step 3

    Plan your itinerary

    Design your stages, pick your huts, and customize your route.

  4. Step 4

    Hit the trail

    Export GPX files and a printable PDF guidebook. You are ready.

What people are saying

Join other hikers who are planning smart and hiking happy.

This was very helpful while I was trying to figure out each stop. I really like that I can change the distance to miles and feet. I also love that it shows water availability, transportation, and markets along the way. This is very helpful. This is a very user friendly site!

Joni K.

Tour du Mont Blanc

The app is a pleasure to use. You can tell it was created by hikers because it has everything you need to plan a trek. Hike Planner saved me a lot of time and stress because it shows the availability of most mountain huts. Thanks to that, I was able to plan my trek much faster.

Lenka H.

Walker's Haute Route

I had a great experience using Take a Hike. The platform is clear, intuitive, and really easy to use. I especially loved being able to see the full itinerary, easily find the refuges and access their information, and adjust the distances to find the best option for each day of the hike.

Karen D.

Carros de Foc

Laura & Julio were very helpful to customize my route! Generally great tool and definitely worth the money. Will consider for future hikes.

Papadopoulos G.

Alta Via 1

It made planning my TMB hike much easier. It’s a great resource, and I could share the generated PDF with my loved ones. Highly recommended.

Lukáš P.

Tour du Mont Blanc

An excellent resource for organising long-distance trekking itineraries. It has simplified the process massively for me.

Daniel S.

Anillo de Picos de Europa

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Fjallabak Nature Reserve, Iceland

Check Every National Park and Protected Areas on your route in the Hike Planner

19/10/2026

Wild camping, fires, drones, dogs: the rules change in every park. The Hike Planner now shows protected areas on your route, and all the info you need to know to plan your hike.

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Pyrenees Chamois

Discover the weather, wildlife, and plants along your route with Hike Planner

23/02/2026

Check weather forecasts across key points of your route and explore the wildlife and plants you might encounter along the way. Two new map modes to help you arrive prepared, curious, and ready for the mountains.

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Hike Planner update: Accommodations Real-Time Availability is here

Hike Planner update: Accommodations Real-Time Availability is here

01/02/2026

The Hike Planner now shows real-time mountain hut availability for Alta Via 1, Tour du Mont Blanc, Haute Route and Picos de Europa.

Read more about Hike Planner update: Accommodations Real-Time Availability is here

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