Cabane d'Ugatzé

Cabane d'Ugatzé is a backcountry cabin at about 1200 m in the French Pyrenees, an unguarded shelter for overnight use when you’re passing through on foot. It’s is a small complex of three buildings rather than a single hut, with the shepherd’s family living next door in the active cayolar during the grazing season and occasionally hosting exhausted hikers during bad weather or emergencies.

Use is first-come, first-served with no booking. Typical preparation should assume very limited “hut services”: there is no stove/fireplace provided, and at least some visitors report no usable items inside (so bring what you need for cooking, heating, and sleeping).

Access is from the Iraty chalet station area: follow the road downhill for about 3 km past the restaurant area, then take the dirt track starting near a bend that leads toward Col d’Ugatzé (about 100 m to the track junction). The cabane sits under the start of that track, on the left side.