Camping Campfires & Heating

A campfire at Les Refuges Perchés
  • 1 pack of eco logs is included for each night during your visit, ready for you to collect at the gazebo at check-in.
  • If you wish to have a campfire, or you need more wood to heat your treehouse, we sell firewood (self-serve at the gazebo, 24h, honour system, charges applied to your account).
  • Newspaper and kindling are included at no charge, located at the gazebo.
  • It is forbidden by the government to transport your own firewood from one region to another, as this can bring invasive species that can harm a forest.
  • You may bring bagged wood or eco logs purchased from a store.
  • We monitor the FIRE DANGER INDEX with SOPFEU. We will inform you if fires are prohibited.

The treehouses are small, well insulated, and heat very efficiently

The wood stove inside a treehouse at Les Refuges Perchés
  • Do not try to heat your treehouse when the outside temperature is 7 to 8 degrees Celsius or more, as it is impossible to control the heat with a wood-burning stove.
  • How to start a fire in a wood-burning stove? Watch the video.
  • Please note it takes 1.5 to 2 hours to heat your treehouse.
  • After 15 minutes, once your fire is roaring, don’t sit in a cold treehouse: head out for a walk or wait at the Pavilion for your treehouse to warm up.

Managing the heat

  • You have built many fires in a wood stove... this is for you.
  • You have never built a fire in a wood stove... this is for you.
  • Starting a fire in a wood stove is straightforward; managing the heat in the treehouses takes timing and patience.
  • Do not make a fire in your wood stove when the outside temperature is above 7 to 8°C, there is no way to manage the heat and you will create a sauna!
  • If it’s warmer outside, open the windows and exchange the air.
  • Body heat and cooking will also help to warm up your treehouse.

Here is how to find the rhythm:

  • Build your fire according to the SAFETY and directions pinned to the wall of your treehouse.
  • Only put one log onto the fire once you feel the treehouse begins to cool.
  • Eco logs can be broken in two on the edge of the treehouse’s exterior staircase.
  • Bedtime: do you like the temperature? Yes? Then do not put a log on the fire. At this stage you will create a sauna! It is much more comfortable to sleep when your treehouse is slightly cool than overheated. (Our guests always overheat their treehouse the first night!)
  • You will need to get up at night to maintain the heat in the wood stove. Too hot? Open 2 windows and create a draft in the treehouse.
Inside a warm treehouse at Les Refuges Perchés