Aberdeen Motorhome stops

I've asked on another forum but I'm afraid the answers I got were not favourable, it would seem that Aberdeen is not motorhome friendly. The only suggestions I got was to try along the water front, but if its at the weekend it gets a bit busy with the boy racers. The only other place I can think of is the waterfront at Stonehaven, the site is not open at the moment and Stonehaven tolerate M/Hs overnighting out of season, but its not that close to Aberdeen, theres always Asda car park

Write your comments here...With respect Aberdeen has been blighted for years by people pulling up and camping on waste ground and car parks with caravans and motorhomes.  They quite rightly expect campers to use camping sites so they are looking after the environment. 

K

Hi there we are from Aberdeen and there is not much around here.  the Maryculter site has been flooded and believe it is still closed.  You could call them to ask just in case.  There is a CL site just out the road from us on A944 Backhill farm might be
worth a call asking if they would accommodate you as a one off?    Coalford farm where we store our caravan used to be a CL but not listed now again a working farm.   Not sure where about in Aberdeen you looking to stay.   We have had problems with travellers
so lots of barriers been put up to stop entry into places.  I have seen some motorhomes parked in a car park area just beside Hazlehead /crematorium however no facilties there whatsoever.  The seafront can get very busy at the weekend with lots of boy racers
in the evenings and lots of people walking during the day.  I would imagine Stonehaven CC closed, I just had a look at Haughton Park in Alford and again that is closed till March.   Some of our supermarkets have restricted parking so you would need to be careful
 The park and ride at Kingswells has barriers up to stop travellers pitching up.  will rack my brains to see if I can think of anywhere.

Kellysmum there is a debate whether the fines are legal or not and a couple took them to court and won and did not have to pay fines!  just need to be careful.  There is nowhere legal you can park up this area with a MH or caravan overnight for 'wild' camping.
 Too many travellers have spoiled it

I've asked on another forum but I'm afraid the answers I got were not favourable, it would seem that Aberdeen is not motorhome friendly. The only suggestions I got was to try along the water front, but if its at the weekend it gets a bit busy with the boy
racers. The only other place I can think of is the waterfront at Stonehaven, the site is not open at the moment and Stonehaven tolerate M/Hs overnighting out of season, but its not that close to Aberdeen, theres always Asda car park

Write your comments here...With respect Aberdeen has been blighted for years by people pulling up and camping on waste ground and car parks with caravans and motorhomes.  They quite rightly expect campers to use camping sites so they are looking after the
environment. 

 

K

Write your comments here...Then there NEEDS to be a site that is open all year! The OP is Not looking to wildcamp  especially, just looking for somewhere to stay, out of season, Should be possible surely in 2016 !  The wildcamping suggestions were Not his.

Looking after the environment should include providing legal places where visitor's can stay. Without causing offence or getting fined. Not going to bang on about Aires, but this is the very situation where one would not go amiss (provided the laws against
misuse were strictly enforced).

With the winter weather we get frequently in the North East of Scotland and the last few weeks in particular there is no great demand for caravan sites to open all year. As posted earlier, the nearest large site to Aberdeen which DOES open all year, has
been severely damaged by floods and may not be open for many months. Stonehaven and Banchory Club sites open in mid March as do most of the commercial sites when hopefully the weather will have improved enough to let people out to enjoy their hobby. The news
of the floods may not have reached Pembrokeshire but I can assure you not many people are looking for caravan or M/H pitches in Aberdeen or shire at the moment a lot are trying to have claims settled for the loss of their much loved static vans, caravans,
motor homes, homes and businesses ! Kellysmum

Kellys  mum n dad,    no, not heard about your flooding, plenty about the lake district, and other spots but not Scotland. Hope you are OK ?  I know when we were looking for our cottage, we chose one 200ft above sea level,with a sea view, and not near a
river. We have more than our fair share of rain, but no flooding. 

Ps Kelly looks lovely, we lost our black labrador bitch Wendy, back in August,  she was 13. Still have a rescue yellow lab.Lucy. 

Kelly has just turned 8 and has been caravanning since she was 4 months old. Feeling a bit sorry for herself this evening as she was out for her first decent walk for ages today and although the mind is able the legs are weak ( a bit like her owners' ) I
wrote quite a lengthy post about the floods in Scotland but when I went to post it I had been timed out Grrrr ! We were OK but even although we are on top of hill we did have to dig a trench to divert water away from the house as the field drains weren't draining
the rainwater away quickly enough. I think if you Google Abergeldie Castle or Ballater floods you might see some of the destruction that Scotland has suffered recently. Roll on the better weather ! Kellysmum