South Tyrol has 121 places to sleep above 2,000 metres: 50 hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs, and 71 mountain huts. The highest bed of any kind is at 3,212 m. Below are the 49 of the first group whose height we trust, the highest 31 of the second, and which ones you have to telephone rather than book.
Where these numbers come from. South Tyrol’s accommodation register is published as open data through the Open Data Hub Südtirol, operated by LTS, and it records something no booking site exposes: the altitude of every property in metres. We hold 10,845 South Tyrol records. 9,748 carry a positive altitude — three of those are decimal-point errors we excluded, leaving 9,745 usable heights. Queried 15 August 2026.
How thin the air actually gets
So 58% of South Tyrol’s accommodation sits above 1,000 m, which tells you something true about the province. But only 3% clears 1,800 m, and barely one property in a hundred reaches 2,000 m. Above that line you are mostly in the world of the Schutzhütte — and the exceptions are few enough to name.
Every hotel, guesthouse and B&B above 2,000 m
These are conventional accommodations — hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs, one farm — with the mountain refuges taken out. Where the register holds an official star rating it is shown. Most of these carry none, which is normal at this height and is not a judgement on them.
The highest bed in the province is the Glacier Hotel Grawand at 3,212 m, above the Schnalstal glacier, and it is 212 metres higher than anything else in the register. How you reach it is not in the data and we have not been; the property’s own number is +39 0473 662118.
The Stelvio Pass is the high-altitude hotel district. Four of the top six entries sit on the Stilfserjoch. Three of them — Thöni 3000, Hotel Stilfserjoch and Baita Ortler — carry Sondrio dialling codes (+39 0342), which is the Lombardy side of the pass, so “South Tyrol” is doing loose work in those rows. The pass road is a summer proposition; winter opening needs a phone call, not a booking form.
Seven of the 49 are one glacier village. Piccolo Hotel Gurschler, Sporthotel Kurzras, Sporthotel Cristal, Garni Kurzhof, Hotel Zirm, Aparthotel Maso Corto and the Wieshof farm all sit between 2,004 m and 2,014 m at Kurzras in Schnals. If you want an ordinary hotel bed at 2,000 m with a lift outside the door, that village is the answer — the Schnals destination page has the rest of the valley.
Six properties above 2,000 m hold four stars, and none holds five. They are Hotel Sellajoch - Passo Sella Dolomiten Mountain Resort at 2,176 m, Chalets Graziani at 2,103 m, Almhotel Col Raiser at 2,100 m, Hotel Goldknopf at 2,072 m, Alpenhotel Panorama at 2,015 m and Hotel Zirm at 2,011 m. Three of them are on the Seiser Alm or above Selva, which is the realistic answer for genuine altitude without giving up a private bathroom. The Seiser Alm road carries daytime driving restrictions — confirm the current times with the property before you plan the arrival, because they decide what time you can drive up.
A “Hütte” in the name means nothing about the category. Kölnerhütte at Karersee is registered as a one-star hotel-pension at 2,335 m. Fermeda Hütte is a B&B. Berghütte Maseben is a two-star hotel-pension. Zwickauer Hütte, further down this page, is a genuine refuge with a warden and a bunk room. Read the classification, not the name.
The mountain huts
The register classifies 125 South Tyrol properties as mountain refuges. Only 93 of them carry an altitude at all; those average 2,261 m and top out at 3,195 m, the Becherhaus above Ratschings. We hold a telephone number for 124 of the 125 and a website for 89 — which is the right ratio for this kind of accommodation, because the telephone is how you book it.
None of these is bookable through a hotel booking site. Huts take reservations by telephone or through their own page; they open for a short season, broadly late June to late September with a shorter winter window for a few; and unless you have specifically asked for a Zimmer you will be sleeping in a Lager, a shared bunk room. Ring them. The number is on each hut’s page here.
Three of these huts we can actually show you
Almost nothing in the South Tyrol register carries a photograph. These three appear a second time in Wikidata, which does — so the picture is a Wikimedia Commons file rather than the hut’s own marketing, and the duplicate record is itself an example of the counting problem described below.
Which valley base sits highest
If you want altitude with shops and a lift pass rather than a bunk room, the village decides more than the hotel does. Counting only properties with a recorded height:
Corvara, Colfosco, Reschen, Rein in Taufers and Langtaufers are the interesting rows: every single measured property in them sits above 1,500 m. Corvara’s lowest recorded bed is at 1,518 m, Colfosco’s at 1,551 m. There is no low option. Compare St. Christina, where only 46 of 188 clear 1,500 m — the village runs down the valley, so its name tells you much less about what you will wake up to.
For a Sella Ronda base that is a real trade-off. Colfosco and Corvara guarantee height; Selva offers more than three times the choice — 361 measured properties against Corvara’s 108 — at a similar ceiling but with a floor 100 m lower. If availability matters more than certainty, Selva. If you are worried about the snow line in a warm winter, Corvara or Colfosco.
What we don’t know, and what this list gets wrong
- The altitude is the property’s own declared figure, not a surveyed one. It is accurate enough to sort by and not accurate enough to argue over.
- There are decimal-point errors in the source, and we can show you three. A guesthouse at Ritten is listed at 10,060 m, one at Kaltern at 4,002 m, one at Algund at 4,000 m. All three villages sit between roughly 400 m and 1,000 m, so the values look like the true figure multiplied by ten. We excluded them — and there are certainly smaller errors of the same kind we have not caught.
- Some figures look like the mountain’s height rather than the bed’s. Two Reischach records — Appartement Kronplatz at 2,251 m and Mountain View Corones at 2,100 m — sit in a village at about 950 m and appear to quote the Kronplatz ski area instead. We have left them in the table and flagged them here rather than quietly deleting them.
- Missing altitude is stored as zero, not as blank. 1,097 South Tyrol records carry no usable value, so a property can be missing from these tables rather than genuinely low.
- “South Tyrol” here is the dataset’s boundary, not the province’s. Three of the Stelvio hotels are administratively in Lombardy, and the Dreizinnenhütte is reached from Auronzo di Cadore in Veneto.
- The same place can appear twice. Schlernhaus is in the register under two spellings of its location, and several huts appear again through Wikidata. A count of properties is really a count of register entries.
- We hold no guest review scores for South Tyrol at all. Nothing here is a quality judgement. It is a height measurement.
- We have not stayed at any of these. This article is the official register plus each property’s own contact details. For the food, the warden and the walk in, go to the property’s own site or ring it.
- Opening seasons are not in the dataset. Several of these addresses are shut for more than half the year.
Sources
Open Data Hub Südtirol, accommodation dataset, data provided by LTS — Landesverband der Tourismusorganisationen Südtirols — licensed CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA depending on the record. Retrieved 15 August 2026: 10,845 South Tyrol records held, 9,745 with a usable altitude, 125 classified as mountain refuges. Hero photograph: Schutzhaus Schöne Aussicht above its glacial lake, by Cactus26, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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