Not so wild - wild camping

Goldie146
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edited May 2018 in Caravan & Motorhome Chat #1

Last night we went into town about 6 pm. We passed a small layby (really just an extension of a wide gateway), as a motorhome was setting up (turning on his gas). 

I went by again this morning at 8 am and it was still there (curtains closed).

Would you really want to park up there for the night, when 300 yards round the corner is a pub with a C&CC CS?

I don't think they would get much of a lie in as the road is quite busy with school and commuter traffic in the morning.

I'm neither for nor against parking by the side of the road - but look at the picture from Google maps to see where this was.

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  • brue
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    edited May 2018 #2

    No I wouldn't want to stay in a layby Goldie, it's a different mind set for some about not spending any money. At 6pm there would still have been time to find a site. We often see people parked up in laybys on the A303, to me it would be a night lost away from somewhere a lot more pleasant. perhaps they like traffic? wink

  • Pippah45
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    edited May 2018 #3

    Perhaps they are used to traffic but in a layby that small surely the traffic would rock them to sleep?!!  Nowt so strange as folks?  I might be tempted to take a quick snooze on a long journey  but 14 hours? 

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2018 #4

    And this is just round the corner  - 

    https://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/campsites/uk/cumbria/kendal/stationinn

     

  • ABM
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    edited May 2018 #5

    Just  had  a  week  at  Godrevy Park,  Hayle  and  I  was  staggered  to  see  on  the  walk  down  into  the  town,  no  fewer  than  3  ( THREE  !! )  motor vans  parked  up and,  apparently,  camping  in   the  laybays.  There  are several  Holiday  chalet  sites  as  well as  the  C&MC  site  there  -  it  really  beggars  belief  especially  considering  there  are  at  least  two  car parks  on  the  Dunes  just  past  the  Club  site  which  could  well  cater  for  the  Surfing  Brigade  --  not  that  I  Know  the  parked  ones  were  surfers

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited May 2018 #6

    One of the MHs (a Hobby) has been in the lay-by down towards the town for at least 3 years, ABM. It’s lived in. Take a drive up over the cliffs towards Portreath and you’ll see the same vans in the parking areas day after day.

  • Kennine
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    edited May 2018 #7

    Have you ever considered the fact that those people staying overnight in their motorhomes in inappropriate places, may be members of the Travelling Community. ?.They do not get a welcome on any club sites. 

    K wink

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  • Oneputt
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    edited May 2018 #9

    When I’m on a long journey and by myself I often park up for a few hours in lay-bys but usually the are well back from the road.  Has nothing to do with saving money, more to do with the convenience of arriving and departing when I want to.

  • KENNYG
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    edited May 2018 #10

    Come down to Lytham st Anne's at a weekend up to 20 to 30 motor homes at any one time on the road usually over a grid.

  • redface
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    edited May 2018 #11

    Perhaps they were not members of a camping club?

    Thanks for letting me know where I might park up, should the day ever come that I live in my caravan.  Cheaper than club sites but not so abundant with services etc.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2018 #12

    Looks a delightful spot DD. Whereabouts is it?

  • wallacebob
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    edited May 2018 #13

    We have an enlightened view in Scotland, but it does have some rules. https://www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/sites/soac/files/docs/camping_poster_-_tent.pdf

    I see Forestry Scotland car parks have signs indicating sleeping in you car (or M/H I assume) isn't wild camping. "Camping" is seen as tents in wild places, not M/H in lay-by. I see no attraction in sleeping in Ikea/Tesco car parks or at my local P&R. I know the Spanish are increasingly irritated by M/H who park everywhere and contribute very little to the local economy. 

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  • cyberyacht
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    edited May 2018 #15

    Sorry about that. Slip of the keyboard. Thanks for the info.

  • cody
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    edited May 2018 #16

    So what ? let the free spirits roam, made me envious last summer  seeing them parked up in forest clearings on the Biscarrosse Archaeon road just a short stroll from the surf. 

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