| Camping is more than just a cheap holiday: it's | | | | pond with rafts; and just down the road is a |
| about revelling in the glorious great outdoors and | | | | miniature steam railway, but best of all you're |
| getting back to basics. Just how basic depends on | | | | allowed to have an open fire, and they do a big |
| your taste, which is why this list of best | | | | communal barbecue. For adults the draw is the |
| campsites in the UK has been split up into | | | | close proximity to the scenic strolls of the Lake |
| different kinds of camping holidays: best | | | | District. If your kids like to make a lot of noise, |
| campsites by the beach, best campsites for kids | | | | each of the 20 pitches in of the Blackberry Wood |
| and families, best campsites for scenery, best | | | | Campsite, just off the South Downs Way, has its |
| campsites for peace and quiet and best | | | | own little wooded clearing marked out by logs |
| campsites for adventurers. | | | | around a fireplace, and you can bring your dog. |
| Best Campsites by the beach: | | | | Best Campsites for Adventure: |
| Near Swansea, the Three Cliffs Bay Caravan and | | | | Gwern Gof Isaf Farm is popular with Duke of |
| Camping Site is a blue bay enclosed with grassy | | | | Edinburgh Award challengers, rock climbers, |
| wildflower dotted limbs that makes you wake up | | | | abseilers and people who prefer sweeping scenes |
| in the morning feeling glad of the world we live in. | | | | of rocky peaks and outcrops rising up to Tyfan |
| It's so close to the beach that you can slide down | | | | Peak, over creature comforts. Sligachan Campsite |
| the hill to it, just like the Ayr Holiday Park, another | | | | benefits from the epic Black Cuillins in the same |
| of the best campsites on the coast, which has | | | | way, so all walking, cycling, or recreating is on a |
| views over the cliffs and beach of Porthmeor | | | | grander scale and the facilities are basic. |
| Bay. | | | | Best Campsites for Scenery: |
| Shell Island Campsite, on an island you can only | | | | Lovely views of the North Devon coast are the |
| reach at low tide, is one of the UK's largest and | | | | Little Meadow Camp Site's main attraction; the |
| best campsites and once you get there and pitch | | | | cliff it perches on has been shaped into terraces |
| your tent in the sand dunes you're a captive | | | | so that every pitch gets a scenic view of the |
| audience for the views and the beach, the | | | | Atlantic over Watermouth Bay. Batcombe Vale |
| entertainment of going crabbing on the causeway | | | | Camp in deepest, rural Somerset is set among |
| or, and strolling the paths that wind all over the | | | | hills that roll around greenly, waiting for walkers to |
| island. | | | | explore them. Four lovely lakes, ringed by |
| Best Campsites for Kids and Families: | | | | pathways and lanes and well stocked with fish |
| Fisherground Campsite is a child's dream: it has an | | | | and free boats make up the idyllic picture near |
| adventure course, a tree house, zip wire and a | | | | Longleat Zoo. |