Charging for 'Wild Camping'

[PeteXXX]

Just seen this in the Grauniad..
Charging for Wild Camping..

~£20 a night!~

Really?

 

[R25]

Just seen this in the Grauniad..
Charging for Wild Camping..

~£20 a night!~

Really?

I've read about this recently and the sites seem to think that crap ficilities are the same as wild camping. Wild camping means no toilets/ showers or shop, just you, freedom and the elements. Hope nobody falls for this.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

 

[Slick]

Sounds akin to the wee junkie charging you to park your motor at the football.

 

[R25]

Just seen this in the Grauniad..
Charging for Wild Camping..

~£20 a night!~

Really?

Sites I have used in the Peak District have good facilities and charge on average £7. The National Parks want to charge £20 for nothing. I have read that there are now a few private sites that say they can give you a wild camp experience. I suppose they just don't cut the grass.

 

[PeteXXX]

I suppose that if they want to charge you, they have to find you first..

 

[R25]

I suppose that if they want to charge you, they have to find you first..

Apparently you book and they send you a grid ref for you to go to. What are they thinking?

 

[Slioch]

Choose a discreet location, pitch late, leave early, leave no trace, and bury your poo. Keep the twenty quid.

Hope no one falls for this.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Does the grid reference have a socket so you can plug in all your devices, and access wifi to post your Instagram shot of your wild camp?

 

[raleighnut]

I've always used the excuse "well it was getting dark and I didn't want to risk injuring myself" when I've been challenged (in the morning) by park rangers or busybodies as to where I spent the night both in Derbyshire and North Wales.

 

[steveindenmark]

Isnt not being charged a fundamental reason behind wild camping?

 

[Deleted member 23692]

a few thoughts...

If they aren't the landowner then I doubt they can technically charge anyone, unless they are acting agent(s)
It's just making the NPs less accessible to those of limited means, and only serves to make them more white middle aged middle class than they already are.
It's totally unenforceable. Even if they can catch you, all you've done is a civil tort.. it';s not even a crime

 

[raleighnut]

Isnt not being charged a fundamental reason behind wild camping?

No.

 

[MichaelW2]

I asked one if it was OK to camp besides some fishing huts. The answer I got was, No it is much better ground for camping by the stone wall. This was in Norway.
In the UK the answer would be some variant of gerrofofmyland.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just go above the outer wall limits of any farm, pitch discretely , leave no trace, you'll be fine. A trowel for toilet duties so you don't leave human waste above ground.