Touring Scotland, do we have to book?

Posted on 15/08/2021 08:33 by

talking about " wild camping " in relation to RVs and caravans ! Wild camping was only ever meant for walkers and climbers venturing in to the hills ON FOOT 

I dont know if that's your opinion or backed up in regulation somewhere but it would never have done for my father. In the 60s he and my mother would head off for Scotland use laybye along the way and it was a long way before motorway then use sites only if they could find them. I dont think he ever booked a site in his life and dont ever remember it being a problem. 

Those were simpler times and I couldn't ever see him being a "white peg" man or worrying about arriving 15 mins early. I dont wild camp and always book in the UK but think it's a pity we have to.

Posted on 15/08/2021 08:54 by JVB66

Welcome to the world of modern regulations designed to keep people  much safer.? and try to deter those who think any rules are not applicable to them

Posted on 15/08/2021 09:08 by Rufs

" Welcome to the world of modern regulations designed to keep people much safer.? and try to deter those who think any rules are not applicable to them"

not much of a deterent we have about 20 of them on our villiage green, arrived Friday and set up camp after forcing the locks on 2 gates, I am sure they are not on their way to Scotland.must say they have some very expensive caravans and MH's 

Posted on 15/08/2021 09:12 by

He had fought in Burma so I think you would have had a hard time convincing him of the dangers of a laybye.

Posted on 15/08/2021 03:09 by Greyhoundwest

I just wish people would stop talking about  " wild camping " in relation to RVs and caravans !  Wild camping was only ever meant for walkers and climbers venturing in to the hills ON FOOT and pitching one man tents. Some local authorities seem to enable wild camping by providing some basic facilities, but only to try to prevent the disgusting accumulation of human waste which is appearing in rural areas since the advent of the so called NC 500.  However all this is ruining the very thing that attracted visitors to Scotland, ie. wilderness, tranquillity etc. The law did not anticipate how tourism would suddenly evolve, but the reality is, that just as in England, there is no such thing as wild camping 

Posted on 15/08/2021 09:13

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Thanks for the heads up Grey👍🏻, I didn’t realise Wild Camping was so specific or that it’d been hijacked by the LV community-

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Posted on 15/08/2021 09:12 by SeasideBill

I suppose the term means different things to different people. For most it’s simply setting up camp outside a designated campsite. Scotland seems to have a more enlightened approach to that than England witness the growing number of places where that’s possible. However, all too often it becomes necessary to mitigate that by providing facilities for waste etc and then maybe you don’t have ‘wild camping’? I was in Findhorn on the Moray coast recently and noticed such a change. A very popular beach car park used legally by motorhomers has been converted into an aire offering chemical and water points complete with barrier access via advance booking. It’s not wild camping but it’s not ‘white peg’ either.

Posted on 15/08/2021 09:08 by Rufs

" Welcome to the world of modern regulations designed to keep people much safer.? and try to deter those who think any rules are not applicable to them"

not much of a deterent we have about 20 of them on our villiage green, arrived Friday and set up camp after forcing the locks on 2 gates, I am sure they are not on their way to Scotland.must say they have some very expensive caravans and MH's 

Posted on 15/08/2021 09:13 by JVB66

Those were the days