The campsite has two fields, one car-free, a couple of bell tents and a pair of shepherd huts too. The centre also runs taster sessions and courses in all manner of activities from windsurfing to climbing. This campsite, within an 80-acre country park in The Broads, neighbours an outdoor activity centre where kayaks, canoes and paddleboards are for hire. Wish there was a waterway at the bottom of your garden? Book a holiday at Whitlingham Broad Campsite and there can be (for a week or a weekend at least). You can launch your canoe or fish from the banks and if the meandering River Lee is too tame for you – get yourself over to the Lee Valley White Water Centre. Its 17 pitches are for tents and hammocks only. It’s a riverside campsite that’s keeping it simple with composting loos and a cold water tap, just a 30-minute train ride from Liverpool Street. If you live in London and want a quick camping-and-kayaking getaway – Lee Valley Almost Wild Campsite might be for you. Lee Valley Almost Wild Campsite, Hertfordshire Choose from one of five simply furnished geo-domes and a shepherd’s hut. Tents are pitched where you please within the farm’s organic orchard and there’s glamping too if that’s what floats your boat. Situated on the fringes of literary town, Hay-on-Wye, you can hire a canoe to take to the river – or bring your own and take advantage of the campsite’s private launching point. Want to canoe? Then, get yourself over to Racquety Farm which has family ties to a canoe-hire company named for that very question. And when you return to your canal-side pitch you can enjoy a hot shower and the crackle of a campfire. You can paddle along quiet waterways looking out for wildlife before hitting the busier parts of the Broads. The site offers tents-only camping in a field (bring your own or hire one of their bell tents) with a place to launch canoes and kayaks. If that Five-Go-For-A-Paddle, Swallows-and-Amazons feel is what you’re after – you couldn’t do much better. ‘Blyton-esque and Ransomian’ is how Canal Camping was described by a recent guest who added to its growing list of five-star reviews. Here we’ve taken our pick of just 15 very special place to go camping in summer that just seem ready made for a family canoeing adventure… There are some truly special spots, however, that have boat launching facilities, slipways and good river access that make them particularly good for canoeing, kayaking and river boating.
Campsites with slipways full#
Thankfully, Cool Camping have already got a full collection of waterside campsites, some beside canals other beside vast lakes or Scottish lochs, and we also have a dedicated guide to riverside campsites. If you love pitching your tent beside a river or looking out over a gleaming lake, it doesn’t get much better than finding a good campsite directly beside the water. From Loch Lomond to the Norfolk Broads, we take a look at the best campsites for canoeing For a camping holiday that makes a splash in the great outdoors, it doesn’t get much better than canoeing and kayaking directly from your tent pitch.
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