Where can you wild camp in the UK? The rules, nation by nation
Where wild camping is legal across the UK in 2026 — Scotland, Dartmoor, the high fells and the rest of England and Wales — and how to do it responsibly.
Chalk paths and granite cwms. Lake shores, cliff traverses, breaks worth catching the tide for. A directory and journal of outdoor adventure across the United Kingdom — route notes, regional rollups, first-person trip reports from the people who actually went.
Sea cliffs in Pembrokeshire, lochs in Sutherland, gritstone edges above the Hope Valley, Atlantic swells off Cornwall, paragliding ridges in the Black Mountains. The UK packs an absurd amount of terrain into a small footprint. Pick a region and see what’s there.
Where wild camping is legal across the UK in 2026 — Scotland, Dartmoor, the high fells and the rest of England and Wales — and how to do it responsibly.
A month-by-month guide to the best time to walk all 15 National Trails of England and Wales — by weather, daylight, crowds and midges.
We rated all 15 main walking National Trails of England and Wales on how easy each is to walk without a car, end to end, by train and bus.
One email a month: a route worth walking, a piece of kit worth buying (or skipping), and a dispatch from somewhere in the UK.