Camp De Lank Cornwall

Between Bodmin Moor and the north coast of Cornwall, Camp de Lank is ideally situated if you want to explore both – especially if you want to do it by bike. This small and simple site is the closest campsite to the eastern end of the Camel Trail, a mostly traffic-free route that links Bodmin Moor and coastal Padstow. It takes cyclists on a flat route through gorgeous Cornish countryside and if you stay at Camp de Lank, it’s that gorgeous countryside in which you’ll be pitching your tent.

The site has lovely views, simple facilities and is both dog and campfire friendly. Plus it’s not only the Camel Trail that’s within easy reach of here. Port Isaac is less than 10 miles away with Polzeath, Boscastle and Tintagel not much further. Even the Eden Project is only half an hour’s drive from site. This is an enviable location in North Cornwall and if you don’t fancy pitching a tent, there’s an option here for you too. The site has a handful of furnished bell tents to hire. Like the tent pitches these are off grid but they’re well set up with battery-powered lighting, a made-up double bed plus optional singles as well as cooking kit. Outside you have a fire pit and a sheltered camp kitchen. And everyone on site has access to battery-pack charging and ice-pack freezing to make life off grid a little easier. The well-tended modern facilities help with that too. Toilets, showers and the washing up area are rather nice for a campsite as simple as this.

If you’ve come with your own tent, you’ll find pitches in the five-acre field are spacious with open views of the surrounding countryside. You can walk from site out into it: north a couple of miles to The Old Inn and the edge of Bodmin Moor or south to the Camel Trail and the banks of the river it follows. A bike gets you further, a car means you can visit all of North Cornwall – nowhere in it seems too far from here.