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Hi all,

Not sure whether this has been suggested before, but it's possible to camp for (almost) free using campinmygarden. A sort of couchsurfing in someone's garden with lots of members in Western Europe.

http://www.geehurkmans.com/blogs/cimg.jpg

Anyway, you're more than welcome to put up your tent in mine.

Happy travels,

Gee

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Originally Posted by Mad Cow (Post 329433)

Just to clarify, wild camping in Scotland has been legal since 2003 (and was generally tolerated before that).

From the Scottish Outdoor Access Code

Unfortunately I can also confirm it is illegal in the rest of the United Kingdom. As mentioned before it is generally accepted in upland and mountain regions but this usually means well away from the beaten track (not helpfull if on a bike).

In England and Wales there are a number of unsurfaced roads, shown on Ordnance Survey Maps and known as Byways, or more correctly Byways Open to All Traffic (usually abreviated to BOAT) as well as Unclassified County Roads (Usually marked on OS Maps as ORPA - Other Route with Public Access) these do open up the potential for camping away from civilisation but at the "road side", so quite legal to arrive by motor vehicle.

These routes can be found on TrailWise - The National Catalogue of Rights of Way with additional access information.

As mentioned this is not legal but if you stick to a policy of "arrive late, leave early" and avoid camping near properties you are usually OK. Just don't tell anyone I told you it was OK :whistling:

It's a policy I have used several times sleeping in my Land Rover (OK a lot more "covert" than pitching a tent) but it is an option.

Hope that helps.

There was a free booklet pdf on live with that on for Scotland
but found this may be of use for some although if every one goes to these spots hardly wild!
Wild camping spots in Scotland | The List

I love this thread.It is very helpful for me.I am going for a safari tour in kenya.So I want to know that free camping in kenya is allowed or not.

South Korea

just rode round the whole of south korea, wild camp literally anywhere, but best places are beaches, by lakes and rivers is known as free camping and accepted by everyone, in national parks i was paying $2 which included showers (cold)...

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Originally Posted by Wheelie (Post 425546)

Without seeking consent, in Norway you can pitch a tent for two consequtive days (longer in the boonies away from populations) anywhere (both private and public property) as long as:

You are more than 150 meters away from an occupied house/cabin
You are not a nuiance to the property owner or other people that use it
It is not a camp site (business)
In areas and times where hunting of wild deer is going on
Not in courtyards, driveways, etc
Not in gardens/house properties - the area arround the house that would disturb privacy
Not in farmed fields and other fields used for farming
Not in planted forrest plots
Not in industrial areas, public areas, or other areas where you will be a pain in the ass
Not in smaller fenced in plots or smaller plots within farmed fields

Just use common sense... and leave it as you found it, preferably better. Take more trash with you when you leave than you brought in is a nice gesture.

Actually same for Finland (I think this goes to Scandinavia in generally).

juhhyto, do you live in Finland? I just wondered if your info was from the horses mouth, or whether you'd heard it from someone. I'm travelling to Norway, Sweden and Finland next Summer. I'm clear on the rules for Norway and Sweden, but not so much with Finland.

Anyone else know?

Maybe it was posted here before...we found lots of nice free campsites and boondocks in the US and Kanada here: www.freecampsites.net

Camping in Croatia

No camping allowed in Croatia, except official camp sites.
It's even forbiden to camp on your own land :thumbdown:

Im a Brit living in the south of Portugal and I go off for long weekends in Portugal and Spain and wild camp every time. Portugal (especially the south) has 1000's of miles of off road tracks and not a lot of fenced land so it makes it very easy. Spain I find a bit harder to find that ideal quiet spot due to more fenced land but still easy to do.
Like most people have been saying on this thread, basically don't make loads of noise, don't leave litter about, try and dig a hole for your turds or at least pick a sensible spot and a big no no is fires. We have a lot of dry land that can go up in flames with just 1 spark.

That's sound advice about wild camping in this climate and a good observation about southern Spain.

In most of Spain, however, it's quite rare to find land fenced in apart from meadows and gardens near villages. In Extremadura especially there are large tracts of dehesa that are fenced off in to big estates where they rear the wonderful Iberian semi-wild pigs that live off the acorns. And with a ham starting at €400 each it's no surprise that the owners are touchy about their welfare! :)

Simon

Given that even when you consider just the issue of "wild-camping" (yet to be legally defined) in fully self-contained motorhomes, there will be as many yes/no opinions as there are motorhome owners, so I suspect a topic like this is barely worth the expenditure of the electrons needed to post it. A very few countries have written law that specifically allow a particular pursuit and a similarly small number specifically disallow it. The majority either don't have national or even any laws, or like Australia, have several layers of government and land control and ownership - Federal, State and local government, freehold, leasehold, Aboriginal title - and within each of these, multiple layers each with different policies on such use and each with dramatically different responses to infractions, so that it just isn't possible to come up with an all-encompassing rule that is of any use to the traveller. Some like France have very specific laws relating to very specific sectors of the traveling public. For instance the official French Aires for Camping Cars are just for camping cars (motorhomes) and even cars and caravans (travel trailers) are not permitted, let alone rooftop tents or ground tents. Everyone else is expected to use official campgrounds. In Iceland, almost every square inch of land is privately owned and there are no road reserves as such so theoretically any camping activity requires permission, but we have wildcamped - meaning parked overnight in a motorhome - for around 60 nights all over with no issues.

All that often happens is each travellers personal opinion gets promoted as law on the basis that "I did it and got away with it so everyone else can too"

We have been moved on 4 times in 10 years of full-time motorhoming despite boondocking considerably more than 50% of nights - once in Morocco by corrupt police moonlighting for the local RV park owner, once by a fisheries officer in Montana because we were parked in a disused fishing reserve and a local reported us, and twice in Turkey by very pleasant and helpful security forces because they were worried about our safety along the eastern border.

For what it's worth - Spain has specific laws for motorhomes/campers or call them what you like. Get the lowdown from the 'experts' i.e. the traffic police here.

Regs

Simon

In Australia I use the WikiCamps App - so far it's been great for find the best free spots.

Some Aussie towns now have "commons" areas which allow free camping up to 2 or 3 nights and even have showers - usually these are full of "grey nomads" if free - other towns charge token amounts for commons grounds.

Aussie National Parks are all self paid, self declared systems, but rangers don't usually work after 3pm or before 8am - so if you arrive late and leave early nobody cares.

Nepal- Free camp permitted

you are allowed for free camping except in some restricted region.

South Korea. One of the best things about Korea is that you are free to camp almost anywhere. When I'm looking for the best campsite in the country, our local guide from https://gowithguide.com/korea/seoul/guides recommended Chungju MokgyeSolbat to me. And yes, it is the best. But I think it's paid now.