Wild camping guides

The routes tell you where I walked. These pages cover everything around the walking: how I stay safe on an overnighter, what the law actually says about wild camping in the UK, and how to camp so the hill never knows you were there. Written from practice, not theory, and nothing here is sponsored.

Wild camping safety

The habits that keep a night on the hill boring in the right way: a route left with someone at home, forecasts that make the decisions, paper map and compass, phone discipline, and knowing your ways off before you set out.

Wild camping and the law in the UK

Three countries, three answers. Where camping is a right, where it became one in the Supreme Court, and how the quiet convention works everywhere else, in plain English.

Camping without leaving a mark

Pitch late, strike early, stove not fire, everything carried home. Why invisible camping is the whole price of admission, and why I never publish where I pitch.

More guides are on the way. If there's a question about UK wild camping you'd like covered, tell me and I'll add it to the list.