More than 2,400 pupils from schools have enjoyed these facilities thanks to various educational programmes promoted by the island institution.
Annual visits to the Consell de Mallorca’s refuges have once again broken a record number of visitors in 2024, with a total of 40,240 places occupied, 18.8% more than in 2023, when they reached their historical maximum.
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The Consell de Mallorca’s refuges broke a record again, with 40,000 visitors in 2024, 19% more than in the previous year
The network of refuges managed by the Consell de Mallorca is made up of six establishments located on public estates and offer a total of 332 places, and reach full occupancy points, mainly in the seasons of the year with the greatest influx of hikers, autumn (October and November) and spring (April and May). In the peak months of April and October alone, 10,305 overnight stays were recorded.
The specific occupancy figures for the different accommodations throughout the year are as follows: Tossals Verds (8,119 stays), So n’Amer (7,795), Muleta (6,051), Can Boi (6,678), Pont Romà (5,464) and Galatzó (6133).
The second vice-president and councillor for the Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pedro Bestard, has positively valued this increase in the number of hikers in the Consell de Mallorca’s network of refuges as this is a visitor profile ‘that cares for and values the natural environment and many of them take advantage of their stays in the refuges to do some of the stages of the Ruta de Pedra en Sec, which we also manage’.
Bestard also stressed that, for 2025, his department has increased the budget allocated to Mallorca’s refuges to 2,520,000 euros, which demonstrates ‘the island institution’s firm commitment to preserving and improving the service we provide in these facilities, which are so highly valued by residents and visitors’.
Around 55% of the users who come to the mountain refuges are foreigners and, by nationality, the most numerous are German and French. It should be noted that hikers from more than 50 countries were counted.
More than 2,400 schoolchildren from Mallorca have enjoyed the refuges.
Of the total of 40,240 stays registered last year, 2,437 were by students from schools in Mallorca, who were able to enjoy the unique experience of staying overnight in one of these establishments.
Specifically, during the months of March, April and May, a total of 1,832 schoolchildren under the age of 16 visited the Consell’s refuges, while 130 children attended summer camps for a five-day stay (July). Since the beginning of the current school year, another 475 students have visited these facilities thanks to the various educational initiatives promoted by the island’s institution: ‘Una nit a la Serra’ or ‘Nit d’estrelles’, or with the Serra de Tramuntana Consortium programme, as well as through direct bookings made by schools or institutes on the island.