About the project
The information exists. Just not in one place.
Shelters live in national portals, club databases, PDFs and forum threads, each in the language of its region, and some of those pages have not been touched in years. Bivaq exists to put them on one map.
What Bivaq is
Place. Route. Context.
Shelters and bivouac spots, the trails between them and guides to a night out — with the information that helps before you set out.
Places
Unguarded shelters, bivouac boxes, lean-tos, caves, emergency shelters and staffed huts — the type is on every pin.
Trails
Long-distance trails measured against the places along them — how many, how far apart, and where the longest stretch without one falls.
Practical facts
Access, water, capacity and elevation, as far as the available data goes, with the source named.
Reports
Photographs and the latest condition from people who have been there.
How to read it
The map helps. Conditions change.
Not every fact is verified: nearly all of it comes from open data, and open data goes stale quietly. Where we don't know, the map says so instead of leaving a blank — and a blank is not permission. Emergency shelters are for emergencies.
About the sourcesBeen there?
Add what you know.
Add a photograph, a current report or a correction on the place itself.
Find the place on the map