Hut Rates to Increase for Winter 2024
With the goal of better serving our members, the ACC is investing heavily in its network of backcountry huts. We are implementing a new online booking and reservation management system and undertaking various investments to repair, renovate and maintain our huts. These initiatives, combined with a notable increase in the cost of servicing our huts, require that we revise our prices for winter 2024.
The overnight rates for many of the ACC’s most popular huts will be increasing beginning on December 1, 2023 for reservations made starting June 1st. The rates will be going up at our larger huts where we supply firewood and/or propane, but not at the smaller huts where we don’t. The rates at the five huts that we operate in BC provincial parks will not be increased either. The rates at our sections’ huts will not be affected. Here’s the full list:
Hut Rates Increasing:
Note: The rates for the above 15 huts are for ACC members. Non-member rates are +$10.
Hut Rates NOT Increasing:
Note: The rates for the above six huts are for ACC members. Non-member rates are +$10.
Note: The rates for the five huts above are for ACC members and non-members.
Our Goals
As a non-profit, member-based organization, we always try to keep our fees as low as possible. We want our huts to be used by our members and non-members alike. We want to facilitate safe, fun trips to the backcountry, introduce new users to Canada’s wild places and inspire as many people as possible to fall in love with the alpine environment and learn the intrinsic value of these special places.
We also have a responsibility to the long-term stability of our hut network. The past few years have seen hut servicing costs increase dramatically from propane to firewood to helicopters and most everything in between. Raising our rates is something we are doing in response to our costs, but it is not something that we take lightly.
Hut Improvements and Green Energy and Online Bookings
Our hut maintenance team will be busy again this summer. In addition to regular servicing of our huts, the list of capital projects that we’ll be undertaking includes a new roof on the Kokanee Glacier Cabin, a new roof and siding on the Peyto Hut, an interior renovation of the Bow Hut including furniture and a hybrid solar-micro hydro power system at the Conrad Kain Hut in the Bugaboos.
A move to more renewable energy for our backcountry huts is something that we’re making a priority as well, with planning in the works for more sustainable power at five more of our busiest huts in the next couple of years.
We are also expanding our hut custodian and ambassador program so we’ll have more visits to check in on our huts and assist our guests wherever we can.
Another pending improvement in our hut network is that we’ll be offering online hut bookings later this spring – something our members have been asking for and something we’ve been trying to implement for many years.
Feedback Welcome
We’re keen to hear what our members think of our plans for improvements to our hut network as well as the rate increase. Please feel free to get in touch with us anytime on our social channels or by emailing info@alpineclubofcanada.ca.