One region — the map holds the rest.

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Huts, bivouac boxes, lean-tos and wild spots.

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24 894

shelters · 20 countries · 5 trails

11
Unguarded shelter
8
Bivouac box
4
Lean-to
4
Cave
6
Guarded hut
1
Emergency shelter
Emergency only — never a planned night

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Curated

Bivouac Col de Verde

Wild spot · Corse · 1283 m

Photo byRémihCC BY-SA 4.0Wikimedia Commons

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What you get

Everything you need to sleep out.

Every shelter, mapped

Huts, bivouac boxes and lean-tos — all in one place.

Water sources, mapped

Springs and wells. Slovakia now, more coming. Locations are free.

Add and verify

Post a condition, a photo, a new spot. Always free.

From open map to a place to sleep.

  1. 01

    Open the map.

    Every shelter, bivouac box and lean-to across Europe, in one view.

  2. 02

    Filter by trail and type.

    Find what's near your route — hut, lean-to or bivouac box — and how to reach it.

  3. 03

    Sleep, then verify.

    Add the latest condition and a photo. The next person relies on it.

Trails

The overnight network, measured.

Bivaq measures where you can sleep along real long-distance trails — on-route places within a kilometre of the path, kept separate from what is only nearby.

72

on-route overnight places

Cesta hrdinov SNP

710 km · longest gap 54 km · moderate density

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How it stays true

How it stays true.

You add conditions, photos and new spots — that's what keeps it current. The base is built on OpenStreetMap, refuges.info and Wikimedia, plus bivouac rules we check by hand.

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Know before you bivvy.

9 regions mapped1 legal5 restricted3 forbidden

Bivouac rules change by region and national park. We map them where you can and can't sleep out — with the source and date on every one. Slovakia now, more countries coming.

Source and date shown on every region. Always verify locally — this is not legal advice.

See the rules →

Coverage

DE 8 377IT 4 213FR 4 058NO 1 974AT 1 700CH 1 204PL 861CZ 681SK 466RO 363+10 more

Bivaq+ · coming soon

Free to roam. Bivaq+ when it counts.

The map, search and contributing stay free. Bivaq+ adds the depth for going further — offline, off-grid and off-season.

Bivaq+ arrives later, with the Bivaq app — no price and nothing to buy yet. The waitlist is the only step today.

  • Offline maps (in the app)
  • Full-route & per-trip GPX
  • Unlimited trips
  • Curated stage tips
  • Water reliability & seasonality
  • Full photo galleries
  • Reservation links & contacts
  • Detailed bivouac rules by region
  • Verified-this-season filter

Questions

Good to know.

Yes. The map, search, precise coordinates, water locations, trip planning and contributing stay free. Bivaq+ adds offline maps, GPX export and unlimited trips.

Depends where. We map bivouac rules per region — source and date always shown. Slovakia now, more countries coming.

You fix it. Report a condition, a photo or a new spot. Every place shows where its data came from.

Mostly no, and the app tells you so instead of failing silently. Installed, it falls back to a page that says what is unavailable, and a few informational pages stay readable. The map, shelters, trails and trips all need a connection — no tiles or place data are stored on your device. Offline maps are a planned Bivaq+ feature, not a built one.