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3,572 official stopovers · 5 countries

Official free stopovers and wild camping rules, country by country.

Find a legal free place to stop tonight: 3,572 aires, Stellplätze and sostas across 5 countries, and what the local rules actually allow.

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Motorhomes and cars parked in a gravel stopover below jagged mountains France 1,890 Aires · Europe's densest network, and many are free to park on. A white campervan on a grass pitch with a fence and mountains behind Germany 465 Stellplätze · From full service points to a bare corner of a car park. An empty road running through dry scrub toward a snow-capped sierra Spain 116 Áreas · Park freely; put the awning out and it counts as camping. A wide expanse of dune heath under a broad sky Denmark 1,050 Shelter camps · Free state shelters, about half walk-up and half booked. Steep rock spires rising from a mist-filled Dolomite valley Italy 51 Soste · Article 185 draws the line at your wheels.

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Can you sleep there? What the law in each country actually allows, in plain English.

A broad braided river valley seen through spruce, with snow on the peaks beyond Scotland Wild camping is a right here, with conditions, and Loch Lomond is the exception Read A green canoe drawn up on the shore of a still forest lake Scandinavia What allemansrätten covers, and why Denmark is not part of it Read A rugged rocky coastline with sea stacks and breaking surf France Bivouac and camping are different words in French law, and only one is allowed Read A wide expanse of dune heath under a broad sky Dartmoor The only place in England where you can legally camp without asking Read

Before you go

First trip to Europe? The four things that catch people out.

What an aire is, how the service points work, and where the water goes.

  1. 01 What is an aire? And what a Stellplatz, a sosta and an área are Read
  2. 02 Service points The jeton, the borne, and what you actually pay for Read
  3. 03 Water and waste Filling up and emptying out, legally Read
  4. 04 Wild, free or aire? Three different things people call the same thing Read

Free aires & services

Where to stop, and where to empty the tank.

Free aires in France Where to stop without paying Open Aires in Brittany The free aires along the Breton coast Open Aires in Normandy The free aires across Normandy Open Dump and fresh water Where to empty the tank and fill up, across Europe Open

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Lavacherie (Sainte-Ode, Belgium), St. Aubin and St. Antoine church.

Wild camping in Belgium: banned, and the bivouac zones that are not

Belgium lets you sleep out in one place only: a bivouac area someone officially designated. Here are Wallonia's aires de bivouac and Flanders' bivakzones, the rules at each, the fine the Walloon forest code sets for everywhere else, and why none of it works for a motorhome.

Sep 16 Modrava - Municipal office

Wild Camping in the Czech Republic: What the Law Actually Bans

There is no single nationwide ban, but the forest act and the nature protection act between them cover almost anywhere you would sleep. Here is what the paragraphs say, where a bivouac ends, and what that leaves a motorhome.

Sep 15 France Loir-et-Cher Château de Chambord Photographie prise par GIRAUD Patrick

Loire Valley motorhome aires: where to sleep at each château

Chambord forbids overnight stays in its car park and charges 15 euros per 24 hours to park a motorhome there. Every other headline château on the corridor has an aire within 2 km, and the ones at Cheillé and Sully-sur-Loire are free.

Sep 6