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Personperisoso
15/7/2018 at 9:38pm
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Hello all,

First off thanks for all of the helpful advice I've been absorbing in the forums already. What a great community!

I'm renting a motorhome for the first time with some friends to do some camping around the highlands this summer. I would like to do a mix of stays in camp sites and some wild camping (if camping in a motorhome can be called wild camping). Is there anything you can recommend to help me determine which of my locations are likely to yield nice wild spots? Any discussions of where to camp off-site that you could link me to?

If it helps, I'm considering wild camping around the following places: Aberlour, Portree, and/or Shieldaig.

Thank you in advance!


PersonHighlander09
15/7/2018 at 9:54pm
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Don't forget the midges are waiting for you, especially on the West coast. Have a great trip.

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PersonLorfal
16/7/2018 at 1:37am
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This summer? You might struggle in peak season in Skye to find anywhere lol. Sheildaig maybe ok but stll peak season. There is a little site at sheildaig, pretty basic, almiost wilcd camping. It’s up the hill from the loch front. I’ve not been but passed it many times. Might find more about it using the campsite search.

Will you be travelling from afar to get there?


Personperisoso
16/7/2018 at 8:02am
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Thanks Lorfal,

I'll be traveling from London with some Canadian friends.

I'll look at booking in Skye, since we're arriving for the highland games there. Thanks for the tip.

I'll check out the campsite search - I had assumed it was only for paid sites, not wild camping. I'll take a look.


Personperisoso
16/7/2018 at 8:03am
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Quote: Originally posted by Highlander09 on 15/7/2018
Don't forget the midges are waiting for you, especially on the West coast. Have a great trip.


Haha, my first transaction was booking our motorhome, my second was buying midge repellent!


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PersonLorfal
16/7/2018 at 8:29am
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Try the wild camping for motorhome site too.


PersonFiona W
18/7/2018 at 11:21am
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It's not wild camping (legally speaking) if you're in a motorhome. That definition applies where you're carried everything with you, and Motorised transport isn't wild in the legislation. But it's a handy shorthand term. A landowner might call it "informal" if you were on his land - which might be the grass just off the Tarmac.
However, if you're discrete & responsible, and if there's no sign saying you can't overnight, it's usually ok. You and the several other motorhomes, judging by Arran and the North Coast 500 - and because you're not on a site, the 6m separation rule won't be applied so you can pass a beer through the window to the next van. 20 motorhomes that I saw crammed in a harbour car park near Brora was free but hardly wild. As someone said to us - "it must be lovely in a motorhome, you can stop for the night wherever you want" - but it isn't as easy to do that as you'd think.
You need to get to a site every 3 days or so to refill fresh water, empty grey water & CPD and recharge the leisure battery on the hook-up.

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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.



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