The best eco-friendly campsites

Everything's gone green

Camping and caravanning in the UK are already pretty eco-friendly ways of taking a holiday. You might have to drive, but you probably won't be taking a plane, and when you get to the site, your carbon footprint should be a lot smaller than most other kinds of holiday. Make it even smaller at these eco-friendly AA- and VisitEngland-rated campsites.

Fforest Fields Caravan & Camping Park, Builth Wells, Powys

This constantly improving park ia surrounded by magnificent scenery and an abundance of wildlife. The  pitches are laid out to create optimum privacy, and the excellent eco-friendly amenity block is fuelled by a bio-mass boiler and solar panels. A great place for getting 'back to nature'.
 

The Quiet Site, Watermillock, Cumbria

A lovely site with stunning views across Ullswater from its terraced pitches, camping pods and comfortable Hobbit Holes. Sustainability is at the heart of the park; solar, biomass and ground source heat energy; zero waste shop; reedbed water treatment; wild meadow walks.

Caerfai Bay Caravan & Tent Park, St Davids, Pembrokeshire

Enjoy magnificent coastal scenery from this delightful site set on an organic farm. Excellent solar-heated showers and toilet facilities, low level lighting to ensure a brilliant night sky, and an excellent farm shop too.

Lordstones Country Park, Chop Gate, North Yorkshire

A privately-owned country park high in the North York Moors with a quality farm shop selling estate produce. There's also a café-restaurant and a small camping-cum-glamping park featuring bell tents, bothy tents, yurts and luxury wooden pods.

Concierge Camping, Chichester, West Sussex

Stunning high-spec park developed with meticulous attention to detail by forward-thinking owners. The impressive state-of-the-art amenity block has solar panels, innovative heat pump technology and sensor showers, plus electric car charging points and a shop selling only local produce.

Fen Farm Caravan Site, Mersea Island, Essex

Set beside the Blackwater Estuary, Fen Farm has a unique atmosphere with a mixed landscape of meadow, woodland and marine shore. All home to wildlife to match each environment. There are two excellent solar-heated toilet blocks, a woodland dog walk, and an electric car charging point.

Runach Arainn Glamping, Isle of Arran

Hidden away in a secluded woodland setting, just a 15-minute walk from a lovely beach, this off-grid glamping site offers superb yurts with stylish interiors and private facilities for a truly exceptional stay. Fire pits and outdoor cooking facilities add to the overall charm.

Back of Beyond Touring Park, St Leonards, Dorset

Quirky, adults-only park set in 30 acres of woodland, a haven for wildlife with peaceful walks. Excellent facilities, shop selling local produce and a secluded glamping area with camping pods, a yurt, two shepherd's huts, and cabins for hire.

The Old Brick Kilns, Barney, Norfolk

The Old Brick Kilns is a secluded and peaceful park that's approached by a quiet country lane. As well as providing a restaurant/bar and a shop, it also prides itself on its conservation credentials. The site's bee-friendly, wildflower friendly and good care is also taken of the surrounding woodland and its wildlife.

Brook Lodge Farm, Cowslip Green, Somerset

Sheltered Mendip Hills setting for this peaceful park run by owners who are keen on preserving the site's environment to increase flora and fauna in the park. Green tourism award winners - wildlife corridor, bat boxes, tree conservation area, and solar water heating.

Woodovis Park, Tavistock, Devon

A stunning park in a remote woodland setting on the edge of the Tamar Valley. There’s a real commitment to sustainability here, with their own water bore hole, and solar panels that produce enough power for the whole park.

Eye Kettleby Lakes, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

A haven for lovers of coarse fishing and walking, this quality touring and lodge park has very impressive eco-credentials – notably a wind turbine and solar farm (300 panels) providing electricity, air-source heating in the toilet blocks and excellent planting and wildlife schemes.

Hadspen Glamping, Castle Cary, Somerset

‘Disconnect with city life, reconnect with nature and unwind in luxury’ at this idyllic Somerset haven next door to The Newt country estate. Three individually decorated, off-grid, canvas eco-lodges use solar power, LED lighting, and firewood from the estate heats the hot tubs.

Old Oaks Touring & Glamping, Glastonbury, Somerset

An exceptional, long-established touring and glamping park built around a strong green ethos.  
Facility blocks use the latest energy efficient technologies, and the former Victorian-style reedbed treatment area has been transformed into stunning wildlife area for guests to enjoy.

Flaxton Meadows, York, North Yorkshire

Eco-conscious Flaxton Meadows provides a peaceful retreat in a natural environment close to York. All the electricity, hot water and heating for both the tourers’ amenity block and the luxury  
lodges (with hot tubs) are supplied by solar panels and ground source heat pumps.