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spiritburner

20/4/2016 at 10:45pm
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I keep meaning to put ear plugs in the camping kit for road & other noise. I once camped beside a railway line in Montana near the Little Big Horn - train that came through during the night took about 30 minutes & shock the ground!

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I always earplugs as I don't like the wildlife waking me up at 5am, but generally I do avoid noisy roads. The odd train passing if its more than a mile away I don't mind.

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we've stayed at a couple of sites where noise was an issue...thankfully neither occasion was a proper holiday for us, but simply a place to stay for a couple of nights...the first was a campsite not far from a busy dual carriage way...we'd gone there to test out a new tent...and the second was a site which had both a busy road AND a train line running along one side of it...unfortunately the side we were pitched on...we'd chosen the site because of its proximity to a local military attraction, so knew about the noise issues, however the train sounded its horn every time it passed by the campsite from early morning to late evening and would scare the living daylights out of me each time...!!

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Quote: Originally posted by TraceyD on 20/4/2016
I must be an odd one then as I quite like to hear cars passing when i'm laid all snuggly in my sleeping bag, a train chugging past is even better. Same with low level chatting, as long as it doesn't got past about 11pm.

Noise can be useful to hide some activities, but shouldn't his be in the nookie thread?

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purplebean

21/4/2016 at 2:44pm
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My review of Chichester C&CC clearly says we won't stay there again because of the noise

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21/4/2016 at 10:01pm
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Ear plugs work wonders.

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I'm becoming obsessed about NOT hearing road noise... although nature can be loud (owls...) but, that constant drone is just a reminder of the pressures we try to escape from with camping in't it?

An occasional train a distance away isn't too bad but, not being pitched right by a railway... nor campers with TV, rowdy children, a snorer with rampant sleep apnoaea or yappy dog, loud music, loud voices and generally anyone who treats space and air as their own rather than being shared with others.

Intolerant, moi? No, just of 'that age' and finding lots of things irritate

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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 21/4/2016
Ear plugs work wonders.

DK

I have never found any I can sleep in, the feeling that something is in my ear just keeps me awake

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I quite like the wildlife noises at 5am. I tend to go to sleep early when camping so don't mind being woken early. I normally get back to sleep for another couple of hours anyway.

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22/4/2016 at 9:30pm
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I camp in the summer on a site right next to the m20, everyone else tries to pitch as far away from the road as possible but I snuggle up my tent as close as I can get, cause it goes someway to block out the noise of 60 boys brigade kids up with the lark

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The only noise that ever keeps me awake is my hubby SNORING
But as long as I'm asleep before he starts I will even sleep thro that

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30/4/2016 at 11:15pm
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Road noise is a MASSIVE issue for me (and, on one campsite I stayed at a few years ago, aeroplane noise - despite being in a very remote area is was on a flight path for planes landing at Manchester).
There was one site in Derbyshire that had VERY good reviews and, coming home from my son's away rugby match, we happened to be passing it. So we called in. It was indeed a very good site but there was the constant road rumble of a nearby A road.
We never camped there.
I am willing to endure, and inflict upon my family, some unpleasant drives in order to get to a site away from even minor roads.

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30/4/2016 at 11:58pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Christine S on 18/4/2016
I`ve been looking at campsites reviews, trying to decide where to go next month and I was surprised by the lack of comments about road noise on several sites where I have stayed in the past, which score very highly in reviews but were spoilt for me by the amount of intrusive traffic noise.
I haven`t got super-hearing, in fact I`m quite deaf. I live in a town centre, but on a very quiet street so maybe I just don`t have the knack of blocking it out. Does anyone else find road noise unacceptable?

1 year I camped up near Inverness on a liovely quiet site... It had been a long drive and I was pleased when I got the tent & insides finally set up ....
Sitting down to chillax I heard a growing rumble getting louder and louder and next thing I was nearly on the ground as the 15ft tall tree hedge I had camped next to was alost blown sideways whacking my tent .... The inter-city express train track was on the other side of the hedge!!!
They didn't tell me this at the reception and I didn't look online at maps before ( which I do now! )
Anyways, too tired to take the tent down, there was only 3 more trains that night and 2 next morning till I was gone...
I reckoned the tent wud be Okies for 5 more whacks

Now I look online at maps to see what roads & train tracks if any run alongside a campsite

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Another Googler here, I always check for the proximity to roads. Mostly this works, but on one site we did have a two tonne bull bawling it's head off at 4:30 every morning. Trust me, 130db of roaring Bull a few feet (the other side of a VERY sturdy fence) is not the best way to be woken each morning.

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