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We love camping as we have a 10 year old boy with autism, who can get loud.

Anybody else out there have any experience of friendly campsites in the North??

Hi, I have a son who is now 20 and has autism, we have taken him away to countless sites over the last 20 years.  The main reason we got into camping was our son, who found it extremely difficult to go on holiday in hotels, large crowded places or not have all his familair things with him.  Hence why we have either owned a motorhome, static or touring caravan for the last 20 years. 

We have travelled all over europe with him and I can say we have never really had any problems, and believe me especially when he was younger that were some massive trantrums and dramas with him.  But I am of the opinion that no matter where you are or what you do he is never going to change so we just suck it up and get on with it. If people around us are not happy then tough, he has just as much right to be there as them.  Luckily now at the age of 20 he has calmed down alot in his behaviour and is absolutely obsessed with fishing, luckily so is OH so anywhere with a fishing lake we usuallly know we are in for a great weekend or holiday.

I think learning to calm down about the situation comes with time and we have meet some lovely people in the last 20 years who have been fantastic with our son when we have been on camp sites.  Just go and enjoy yourself the more you do it the less stressing it will become.

Hope I have not rabbitted on too much, I am sometimes like on of those little bunnies, wind me and off I go!!!!!

SandraX

Welcome to the forum - nice to see another Northerner on the board!!
Where abouts in North Yorkshire are you?

One of my favourite sites is Cote Ghyll in Osmotherley (near Northallerton)
Very friendly owners/wardens, spacious pitches (EHU and non EHU), small play park and stream running through the site, excellent toilet/shower facilities, family bathroom, lovely walk into the village which has a small store, 3 pubs and a chippy, beautiful walks round Cod Beck Reservoir and the Sheep Wash.
Northallerton is an easy 10 minute drive for supermarkets, shops and leisure centre and the coast is within an hour's drive (Whitby, Scarborough)

Hi HEJC72,

Thats one site we have not been to, just noticed you said stream runs through, do you know if there is fishing on site.

Thanks Sandra.

Hiya

Our son is also 20 and has autism and we have been camping since he was 5.

As long as you ask for somewhere quiet and get chatty to your neighbours you should be fine. I know youre going to be on edge most of the time, but make sure you get to relax a bit too.

We used to 'corral' ourselves in with windbreaks and make sure that we had all his little 'things' to keep him occupied. And a good supply of new things in case he got bored.

Nowadays as long as there are games shops and a ehu we're fine!

You'll be surprised how popular camping is with autistics kids!

Now my problems are keeping two toddlers quiet at 5 am when they wake up

Enjoy

Kim

No proper fishing but the little on site shop sells fishing nets which kept my boys amused!

I don't know anything about fishing but Parklands is a popular place to fish.
See here: http://fishkeep.net/reviews/venues/coarse/291-parklands-coarse-fishery

Thanks we have been to Parklands many times son and OH love it.

Sandrax

We're east coast.  Thanks for advice-will try that.  This is our 1st weekend of the season.  Starting off at Wolds Way, Malton,  building up to next weekend at Park Foot, Ullswater.

My son loves the whole 'setting up' of the indoor/outdoor equipment. 

We love the whole experience, although. Dalby and Ebberston are firm favourites for us.