# CampingSpirit

> CampingSpirit is a web-based road trip and camping planner for the USA and Europe. It plans driving routes, suggests hand-picked stops within a chosen detour distance, finds campsites and motorhome stopovers, estimates fuel costs, checks RV/motorhome height, length and weight limits, and (in Europe) flags motorway tolls, vignettes and low-emission/ZTL city zones. Available in English, Italian, German and French. Free plan; paid plans (Explorer, Voyager, Nomad) from $29.99 / €27.99 per year.

Key facts:
- Category: travel planning software (road trips, camping, RV and campervan travel)
- Regions: 48 contiguous US states; 27 European countries
- Content: 381 editor-written trip guides, 19 destination guides, 1195 editor-selected places, 16 magazine articles
- Every page below has a Markdown version (append `index.md` to the URL). Italian, German and French versions live under /it/, /de/ and /fr/.

## Product
- [Plans & pricing](https://camping-spirit.com/pricing/index.md): Free, Explorer, Voyager and Nomad plans in USD and EUR
- [About CampingSpirit](https://camping-spirit.com/about/index.md): how places are selected (editorial, no paid placement)
- [Driving in Europe](https://camping-spirit.com/driving-in-europe/index.md): tolls, vignettes, city access zones and motorway speed limits for 27 countries

## Trip guides: USA
- [Route 66, part one: Chicago to Oklahoma City](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/route66-east/index.md): From the Begin sign on Adams Street, through cornfields and Ozark caves, to the neon of Oklahoma.
- [Route 66, part two: Oklahoma City to the Pacific](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/route66-west/index.md): The Texas Panhandle, the Painted Desert and the Mojave, ending on the Santa Monica Pier.
- [Highway 1: San Francisco to Santa Monica](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/highway-1/index.md): Cliffs, redwood canyons and elephant seals. Drive it southbound so the ocean is on your side.
- [The Blue Ridge Parkway, end to end](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/blue-ridge/index.md): All 469 miles from Shenandoah to the Smokies, at 45 mph, with plenty of overlooks.
- [The Overseas Highway to Key West](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/overseas/index.md): A string of islands and 42 bridges, with a gator detour through the Everglades first.
- [Utah's five national parks, in one loop from Las Vegas](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/mighty-five/index.md): Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands, returning past Monument Valley and Horseshoe Bend.
- [Grand Teton, Yellowstone and the Beartooth Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/yellowstone-beartooth/index.md): Mountain reflections, geysers, and then a climb to nearly 11,000 feet on the way out.
- [Canyons and cliff dwellings of the Four Corners](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/four-corners-loop/index.md): Ancestral Puebloan villages, slot canyons and the Grand Canyon's South Rim.
- [West Texas and southern New Mexico: dunes, caves and Big Bend](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/west-texas/index.md): White gypsum dunes, a famous bat cave, a fake boutique and one of the emptiest parks in the country.
- [Going-to-the-Sun Road, west to east](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/glacier-sun/index.md): Fifty miles of cliff-edge road across Glacier National Park. Check vehicle size limits first.
- [Badlands and the Black Hills with kids](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/black-hills/index.md): A corn-covered arena, free ice water, bison jams and four presidents in granite.
- [The Olympic Peninsula by RV](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/olympic-rv/index.md): Rain forest campgrounds, Pacific sea stacks and chowder at Pike Place.
- [Swimming holes and granite domes in the Texas Hill Country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/hill-country/index.md): A grotto pool, a granite dome and German bakeries in Fredericksburg.
- [Lake Michigan's dune coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/michigan-shore/index.md): Big dunes and the Mighty Mac bridge.
- [Giant baskets and infinity rooms: a Midwest oddities run](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/midwest-oddities/index.md): Novelty buildings, a fiberglass spaceman and a house that should not exist.
- [Music highway: Nashville to New Orleans](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/music-highway/index.md): Country, soul, blues and jazz, with Memphis in the middle.
- [Desert art and strange sculpture](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/desert-art/index.md): Neon signs, painted boulders, bottle trees and a mountain painted with slogans.
- [East Coast curiosities](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/coastal-curiosities/index.md): Witch-trial history, a wooden elephant and wild horses on the beach.
- [Death Valley to Yosemite on the Eastern Sierra](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/eastern-sierra/index.md): From the lowest point in North America to granite walls, by way of tufa towers.
- [Colorado Springs to Rocky Mountain National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/front-range/index.md): Red rocks, a concert venue in the cliffs and the highest paved through-road in the country.
- [Fall color: the Kancamagus to Acadia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/new-england-fall/index.md): Waterfalls in the White Mountains, then sunrise on the Maine coast.
- [Oregon's waterfalls and volcanoes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/oregon-volcanoes/index.md): The Columbia River Gorge, high desert around Bend and the deep blue of Crater Lake.
- [Oregon Coast on US-101](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/oregon-coast/index.md): Every mile of Oregon’s coast is public: Haystack Rock, Heceta Head lighthouse, giant dunes and the sea stacks of Bandon.
- [Redwood Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/redwood-coast/index.md): Victorian Ferndale, the Avenue of the Giants and a canyon of ferns on the way to Crescent City.
- [North Cascades Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/north-cascades/index.md): A turquoise lake below jagged peaks, a Wild West town and a Bavarian village in the Cascades.
- [Rainier and St. Helens volcano loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/volcano-loop-wa/index.md): Wildflower meadows at Paradise and the blast zone of Mount St. Helens, between Seattle and Portland.
- [Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/columbia-gorge/index.md): Waterfalls along the Historic Columbia River Highway, Hood River orchards and Timberline Lodge.
- [Death Valley loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/death-valley/index.md): Golden badlands, the lowest point in North America and sand dunes, with a ghost town on the way.
- [Lake Tahoe loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lake-tahoe/index.md): Around the clear blue lake on the California–Nevada border, with Emerald Bay and old Truckee.
- [Sequoia and Yosemite](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sequoia-yosemite/index.md): The largest tree on Earth, then Yosemite Valley through the gold country town of Mariposa.
- [Red rock Arizona](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/arizona-red-rock/index.md): Sedona’s red buttes, the hillside ghost town of Jerome and Whiskey Row in Prescott.
- [Utah Scenic Byway 12](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/utah-byway-12/index.md): From Bryce Canyon over the Hogback ridge to Capitol Reef, one of America’s great drives.
- [San Juan Skyway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/san-juan-skyway/index.md): A loop of mining towns and 11,000-foot passes, including the Million Dollar Highway.
- [Top of the Rockies to Aspen](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/independence-aspen/index.md): Leadville, Independence Pass, the Maroon Bells and the hot springs at Glenwood.
- [High Road to Taos](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/high-road-taos/index.md): Adobe churches, weaving villages and Taos Pueblo on the back road from Santa Fe.
- [Texas Gulf Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/texas-gulf/index.md): Galveston’s Victorian Strand, island ferries and the wild beaches of Padre Island.
- [Chihuahuan Desert parks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/chihuahuan/index.md): Carlsbad Caverns and the white gypsum dunes of White Sands between El Paso and Roswell.
- [Natchez Trace Parkway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/natchez-trace/index.md): A 444-mile parkway with no trucks and no billboards, from Nashville to the Mississippi at Natchez.
- [Great River Road: the upper Mississippi](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/great-river-road/index.md): River bluffs, lock and dams, Mark Twain’s Hannibal and the Gateway Arch.
- [Arkansas Ozarks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/ozarks/index.md): Victorian Eureka Springs, the bluffs of the Buffalo River and the bathhouses of Hot Springs.
- [Lowcountry: Charleston to Savannah](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lowcountry/index.md): Spanish moss, marsh islands and two of the South’s most beautiful old cities.
- [Outer Banks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/outer-banks/index.md): The dunes of the first flight, Cape Hatteras lighthouse and the ferry to Ocracoke.
- [Florida Gulf Coast and the Everglades](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/florida-gulf/index.md): Shell beaches on Sanibel, Naples and the Tamiami Trail across the Everglades.
- [Florida’s Forgotten Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/forgotten-coast/index.md): Oyster towns and empty beaches on the Big Bend, from Pensacola to Cedar Key.
- [Maine’s Route 1](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/maine-route-1/index.md): Lighthouses, lobster shacks and harbour towns up the coast to Acadia.
- [Cape Cod](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cape-cod/index.md): Plymouth, the Old King’s Highway, Chatham and the dunes of Provincetown.
- [Connecticut, Rhode Island and Montauk](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/new-england-shore/index.md): Mystic seaport, Newport’s mansions and the ferry to the tip of Long Island.
- [Vermont Route 100](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/vermont-100/index.md): Covered bridges, farm stands and fall colour on the road through the Green Mountains.
- [Niagara, Finger Lakes and Adirondacks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/finger-lakes/index.md): Niagara Falls, gorges and wineries on the Finger Lakes, then Olympic Lake Placid.
- [Hudson Valley](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/hudson-valley/index.md): Giant sculptures at Storm King, art in Beacon and Roosevelt’s home at Hyde Park.
- [Lake Superior’s north and south shores](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lake-superior/index.md): Split Rock lighthouse, Grand Marais, the Apostle Islands and the cliffs of Pictured Rocks.
- [Door County peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/door-county/index.md): Cherry orchards, fish boils and lighthouses between Green Bay and Lake Michigan.
- [On the Oregon Trail in Nebraska](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/oregon-trail/index.md): Following the pioneers along the North Platte to Chimney Rock and Scotts Bluff.
- [Idaho’s Sawtooth Scenic Byway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sawtooth/index.md): Sun Valley, the jagged Sawtooths above Redfish Lake and the lava fields of Craters of the Moon.
- [Alaska’s Seward Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/seward-highway/index.md): Turnagain Arm, Girdwood and a glacier you can walk to, on the way to Resurrection Bay.
- [Road to Hana, Maui](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/road-to-hana/index.md): 620 curves and 59 bridges through rainforest, past waterfalls to black sand at Waiʻānapanapa.
- [Hawaiʻi Island: Kona to the volcano](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/big-island/index.md): Coffee country, black sand beaches and the steaming summit of Kīlauea.
- [Kentucky bourbon and caves](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/bourbon-trail/index.md): Distilleries around Bardstown, horse farms in Lexington and the world’s longest cave.
- [Great Smoky Mountains and the Tail of the Dragon](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/smokies-dragon/index.md): Newfound Gap, the highest point in the Smokies and 318 curves at Deals Gap.
- [Hoover Dam and the Colorado River](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/colorado-river/index.md): From the Las Vegas Strip to Hoover Dam and a London bridge in the Arizona desert.
- [Sonoma, Napa and Point Reyes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/wine-country/index.md): Wine valleys, mud baths in Calistoga and a lighthouse on the foggy Point Reyes headland.
- [Texas Panhandle canyons](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/panhandle-canyons/index.md): Cadillac Ranch, Palo Duro Canyon and the bison of Caprock Canyons.
- [Cajun Country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cajun-country/index.md): Zydeco in Breaux Bridge, the history of slavery at Whitney Plantation and Tabasco on Avery Island.
- [The Blues Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/blues-highway/index.md): Highway 61 from Memphis through the Mississippi Delta, where the blues began, to Vicksburg.
- [US-50: the Loneliest Road in America](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/loneliest-road/index.md): Across Nevada’s basins and ranges, through old mining towns to Great Basin National Park.
- [Kansas Flint Hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/flint-hills/index.md): The last big tallgrass prairie, with bison, stone ranches and Santa Fe Trail towns.
- [Deadwood and Spearfish Canyon](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/northern-black-hills/index.md): The Wild West town of Deadwood and a canyon road with waterfalls in the northern Black Hills.
- [Skyline Drive, Shenandoah](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/skyline-shenandoah/index.md): Along the Blue Ridge crest from Front Royal, with caverns at Luray.
- [Amish Country and Gettysburg](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/amish-gettysburg/index.md): Horse-drawn buggies in Lancaster County and the battlefield of Gettysburg.
- [Missouri River wine country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/missouri-wine/index.md): German-heritage Hermann and riverside wineries west of St. Louis.
- [San Juan Islands by ferry](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-san-juan-islands/index.md): From Seattle over Deception Pass to Anacortes, then by state ferry to San Juan and Orcas islands for orcas, lighthouses and island views.
- [The Palouse: wheat hills and a hidden waterfall](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-palouse-hills/index.md): South from Spokane into the rolling farmland of the Palouse, with a summit view from Steptoe Butte, a dramatic canyon waterfall and two college towns.
- [Wallowa Mountains and Hells Canyon](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-wallowa-hells-canyon/index.md): Through the Grande Ronde Valley to Joseph and Wallowa Lake, then over the mountains to the rim of Hells Canyon and down to the Oregon Trail at Baker City.
- [Oregon Outback: volcanoes and high desert](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-oregon-outback/index.md): From Bend past lava flows and a tuff-ring fortress into the empty basins of southern Oregon, ending in Lakeview.
- [Steens Mountain and the Alvord Desert](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-steens-alvord/index.md): Wildlife marshes, a round barn and a glacier-carved mountain in Oregon’s far southeast, ending on a dry lakebed.
- [The Lost Coast and Shelter Cove](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-lost-coast/index.md): From Victorian Ferndale over the Mattole Road to California’s most remote coast, through old-growth redwoods to the black sand of Shelter Cove.
- [Gold Country on Highway 49](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-gold-country/index.md): South through the Sierra foothills on Highway 49, from Victorian Nevada City past the gold discovery site to a preserved Gold Rush town and Mariposa.
- [Anza-Borrego and the Salton Sea](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-anza-borrego/index.md): From San Diego over the mountains to apple-pie Julian, down into California’s largest state park and on to the strange shores of the Salton Sea.
- [Mojave National Preserve: dunes, depot and cinder cones](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-mojave-preserve/index.md): Through the empty heart of the Mojave between I-15 and Route 66: cinder cones, a lonely railroad depot, singing dunes and a volcanic crater.
- [Red rock around Las Vegas: Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-valley-of-fire/index.md): Two red sandstone parks within an hour of the Strip, joined by the lonely Northshore Road along Lake Mead.
- [Extraterrestrial Highway and Nevada ghost towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-extraterrestrial-highway/index.md): North from Las Vegas past Area 51 on the Extraterrestrial Highway, then south through old mining boomtowns to the gateway of Death Valley.
- [Kanab to Page: pink dunes, hoodoos and Lake Powell](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-kanab-page/index.md): Along US-89 from coral-colored dunes to the gateway of Lake Powell, with hoodoos and dinosaurs of Grand Staircase-Escalante on the way.
- [Dinosaurs and Flaming Gorge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-flaming-gorge/index.md): From dinosaur country in Vernal, up US-191 through the Uinta Mountains to the red canyons of Flaming Gorge and on into Wyoming.
- [Wind River country: Togwotee Pass to South Pass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-wind-river/index.md): From Jackson over the Continental Divide to the red badlands of Dubois, the ranch town of Lander and the historic South Pass of the Oregon Trail.
- [Glacier’s quiet corners: North Fork and Two Medicine](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-glacier-quiet-corners/index.md): The less-visited sides of Glacier National Park: a dirt road to Bowman Lake, then US-2 over Marias Pass to Two Medicine and the Blackfeet Nation.
- [Black Canyon and the West Elk Loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-black-canyon-west-elk/index.md): The dizzying rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado’s largest lake, and the aspen forests over Kebler Pass to Crested Butte and the North Fork orchards.
- [San Luis Valley: Great Sand Dunes and Colorado’s oldest town](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-san-luis-valley/index.md): Over Poncha Pass into a vast high valley, with a UFO watchtower, North America’s tallest dunes, a hidden waterfall and the Hispanic village of San Luis.
- [On the Santa Fe Trail: Trinidad to Santa Fe](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-santa-fe-trail/index.md): The mountain route of the old trade trail, over Raton Pass past an extinct volcano and frontier forts to the plaza in Santa Fe.
- [Gila Wilderness: cliff dwellings, a catwalk and the Very Large Array](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-gila-loop/index.md): Southwest New Mexico’s mountain country: rock pinnacles, cave dwellings, a canyon walkway and a field of giant radio telescopes.
- [Southeast Arizona: missions, mines and sky islands](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-sky-islands/index.md): From Tucson’s White Dove of the Desert to a hidden cave, Old West Tombstone, copper-mining Bisbee and the rock pinnacles of the Chiricahua Mountains.
- [Alaska’s Richardson and Denali highways](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-richardson-denali/index.md): From Valdez past waterfalls and a roadside glacier, along the Wrangell Mountains, then across the gravel Denali Highway to Denali National Park.
- [Kauaʻi from Hanalei to Waimea Canyon](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b8-kauai-loop/index.md): From the green north shore past a seabird lighthouse and waterfalls, around the south shore to the red walls of Waimea Canyon and the Nā Pali cliffs.
- [Big Thicket: East Texas pines and bayous](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-big-thicket/index.md): North of Houston into the piney woods, then south through the Big Thicket National Preserve to a canoe creek near Beaumont.
- [Davis Mountains: forts, stars and a desert spring](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-davis-mountains/index.md): A cool sky-island loop above the West Texas desert, from Marfa to a frontier fort, a world-class observatory and the spring pool at Balmorhea.
- [Down the Guadalupe: maples, cypress and dance halls](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-guadalupe-river/index.md): A quieter Hill Country route following the Guadalupe River from a maple canyon past Kerrville and Comfort to the tubing towns of New Braunfels.
- [Bison and granite in the Wichita Mountains](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-wichita-mountains/index.md): From Oklahoma City to a refuge where bison roam among granite peaks, then west to the red hills of Quartz Mountain.
- [Off Route 66: Osage country and the tallgrass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-osage-tallgrass/index.md): A loop north of Tulsa through Osage Nation country, with a bison prairie, an oilman’s ranch and Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie skyscraper.
- [The Talimena Scenic Drive, Oklahoma to Arkansas](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-talimena/index.md): An outlaw cave, then 54 miles of ridge-top road through the Ouachita Mountains to Mena and on to Hot Springs.
- [Nebraska Sandhills on Highway 2](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-nebraska-sandhills/index.md): Across the grass-covered dunes of the Sandhills on one of America’s emptiest two-lane roads, from Grand Island to Carhenge.
- [Niobrara River: waterfalls and fossil rhinos](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-niobrara/index.md): Waterfalls, bison and river floats around Valentine, then east along US-20 to fossil beds and the Missouri.
- [North Dakota badlands and the Enchanted Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-roosevelt-enchanted/index.md): West from Bismarck past giant scrap-metal sculptures to the badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, both units.
- [Minnesota North Woods: iron mines to Voyageurs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-north-woods/index.md): From Duluth to the Iron Range mines, the canoe-country town of Ely and the water-bound Voyageurs National Park on the Canadian border.
- [Iowa’s Driftless bluffs and Norwegian Decorah](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-iowa-driftless/index.md): Up the Mississippi bluffs past ancient effigy mounds, then inland to the trout streams, springs and Czech and Norwegian towns of north-east Iowa.
- [Covered bridges, Dutch windmills and the Amana Colonies](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-madison-county/index.md): Central Iowa’s gentle side: a sandstone canyon, the covered bridges of Madison County, Dutch Pella and the German Amana villages.
- [Missouri Ozark springs and shut-ins](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-ozark-springs/index.md): Granite boulders, volcanic-rock swimming holes, a red mill and some of the largest springs in the US along the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
- [Arkansas crystals and diamonds](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-arkansas-crystals/index.md): Hot Springs’ bathhouses, clear Ouachita lakes, quartz-crystal digging near Mount Ida and a diamond field where you keep what you find.
- [Louisiana’s Creole Nature Trail](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-creole-nature-trail/index.md): A loop from Lake Charles through marsh, wildlife refuges and remote Gulf beaches, with a short ferry ride across the ship channel.
- [The Mississippi Gulf Coast on US-90](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-mississippi-gulf-coast/index.md): From New Orleans to the art towns and long beaches of the Mississippi coast, with a lighthouse, an antebellum beach house and a bayou campground.
- [Mobile Bay and Alabama’s Gulf Shores](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-alabama-gulf/index.md): Gardens and old forts around Mobile Bay, a car ferry across its mouth, and the white beaches and state park at Gulf Shores.
- [Alabama’s civil rights trail: Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-civil-rights-trail/index.md): The churches, bridges and memorials of the civil rights movement, following the route of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march.
- [Cumberland Plateau waterfalls](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-cumberland-plateau/index.md): Five state parks with waterfalls and gorges along the edge of Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, from Cookeville to Chattanooga.
- [Red River Gorge arches and Kentucky crafts](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-red-river-gorge/index.md): A one-lane tunnel into a gorge full of sandstone arches, then the crafts town of Berea and a restored Shaker village.
- [Up the Missouri River through South Dakota](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-missouri-river-sd/index.md): From Sioux Falls to the Missouri at Chamberlain, then north past the state capital and Oahe Dam to the Sitting Bull Monument above the river.
- [Kansas chalk badlands](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b9-kansas-chalk/index.md): From the fossil museum in Hays to chalk spires, arches and badlands rising from the prairie of western Kansas, ending at a canyon lake with a pueblo ruin.
- [Manatees and springs on Florida’s Nature Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-nature-coast-springs/index.md): Crystal-clear springs, winter manatees and the old fishing village of Cedar Key along US-19.
- [White sand on the Panhandle: Pensacola to Panama City Beach](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-emerald-coast/index.md): Sugar-white beaches, a Civil War fort, coastal dune lakes and the pastel towns of Scenic 30A.
- [Georgia’s Golden Isles and the Okefenokee](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-golden-isles/index.md): Marshes, live oaks and barrier islands south of Savannah, ending in the Okefenokee Swamp.
- [North Georgia waterfalls and gold country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-north-georgia-mountains/index.md): From Atlanta to Georgia’s tallest waterfall, a gold-rush town, an Alpine village and a deep gorge.
- [Waterfalls of the South Carolina Upstate](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-sc-upstate-waterfalls/index.md): Along the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway to granite domes, a clear mountain lake and a dozen falls.
- [North Carolina’s Crystal Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-crystal-coast/index.md): Colonial New Bern, the wild horses and lighthouse of Cape Lookout, and the beaches of Bogue Banks.
- [Virginia’s Eastern Shore and the Bay Bridge-Tunnel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-eastern-shore-va/index.md): Wild ponies at Chincoteague, sleepy harbor towns and a 17-mile crossing of the Chesapeake Bay.
- [New River Gorge National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-new-river-gorge/index.md): Overlooks, a famous steel arch bridge, a ghost railroad town and a coal mine you can ride into.
- [West Virginia highlands: Dolly Sods to Cass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-wv-highlands/index.md): High plateaus, a waterfall canyon, Seneca Rocks and steam trains in the Monongahela National Forest.
- [Chesapeake Bay: Annapolis to Blackwater](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-chesapeake-eastern-shore/index.md): Sailboats in Annapolis, watermen’s villages, a tiny river ferry and eagle-filled marshes on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
- [Brandywine Valley gardens and du Pont estates](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-brandywine-valley/index.md): Valley Forge, Longwood Gardens, the Wyeths and the mills and mansions of the du Ponts.
- [Pine Barrens and the Jersey Shore to Cape May](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-jersey-shore-pine-barrens/index.md): An old lighthouse, a forest village in the Pine Barrens, boardwalks and Victorian Cape May.
- [Catskills waterfalls and artists’ towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-catskills/index.md): Woodstock, mountain hamlets, the Hudson River School’s favorite falls and Frederic Church’s Olana.
- [Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-thousand-islands/index.md): Along the Seaway Trail from Oswego to castles on islands in the St. Lawrence River.
- [The Mohawk Trail and the Berkshires](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-mohawk-berkshires/index.md): A flower bridge, a mill full of contemporary art, Massachusetts’ highest peak and Norman Rockwell’s Stockbridge.
- [Moosehead Lake and Katahdin: Maine’s North Woods](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-moosehead-katahdin/index.md): Moose country around Maine’s largest lake, a slate canyon and the wild park at the end of the Appalachian Trail.
- [Hocking Hills caves and Ohio’s Amish Country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-hocking-hills-amish/index.md): Sandstone gorges and waterfalls in southeastern Ohio, then a canal town and buggies in Holmes County.
- [Tunnel of Trees and Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-tunnel-of-trees-eastern-up/index.md): A canopy road above Lake Michigan, the Mackinac Bridge, Tahquamenon Falls and freighters at the Soo Locks.
- [Marquette to Copper Harbor on the Keweenaw](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-keweenaw-copper-country/index.md): Lake Superior cliffs, copper mines and ghost towns, and the highest drive in the Midwest at the tip of the Keweenaw.
- [Indiana Dunes and northern Indiana’s Amish country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-indiana-dunes/index.md): Lake Michigan dunes an hour from Chicago, then Notre Dame and the buggies of Shipshewana.
- [Shawnee National Forest: southern Illinois hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-shawnee-hills/index.md): Sandstone canyons, a giant cross, the Garden of the Gods and a pirate cave on the Ohio River.
- [Wisconsin’s Driftless Area](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b10-wisconsin-driftless/index.md): Glacier-free hills and valleys, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, trolls, oddities and Mississippi bluffs.

## Trip guides: Europe
- [Route des Grandes Alpes: Lake Geneva to the Riviera](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/grandes-alpes/index.md): Mont Blanc, the Galibier and a long descent to the Mediterranean.
- [Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast from Naples](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/amalfi/index.md): Roman streets, cliff villages and lemon groves on one of Italy’s most famous roads.
- [Norway’s fjords: Bergen to the Atlantic Road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/norway-fjords/index.md): Waterfalls, hairpins and islands joined by bridges. Several legs include short car ferries.
- [The North Coast 500 from Inverness](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/nc500/index.md): Empty beaches, sea caves and single-track roads around the top of Scotland.
- [The Romantic Road: Würzburg to Füssen](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/romantic-road/index.md): Walled towns, half-timbered squares and a fairy-tale castle at the end.
- [Lisbon to the Algarve along the Atlantic](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lisbon-algarve/index.md): A Romantic palace, Europe’s western tip and golden sea cliffs.
- [Plitvice and the Dalmatian coast to Kotor](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/croatia-coast/index.md): Waterfall lakes, Roman Split, the walls of Dubrovnik and a fjord-like bay.
- [A loop through the Dolomites](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/dolomites/index.md): Emerald lakes, the Tre Cime and high passes above Cortina.
- [Swiss Alpine passes from Lucerne](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/swiss-passes/index.md): A covered bridge, the Furka hairpins and a valley of waterfalls.
- [Slovenia’s Julian Alps](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/julian-alps/index.md): Lake Bled, the cobbled Vršič pass and the emerald Soča.
- [Iceland’s south coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/iceland-south/index.md): Tectonic rifts, waterfalls you can walk behind and a lagoon full of icebergs.
- [Tuscany and Lazio by motorhome](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/tuscany-camper/index.md): Pisa, wine country, cypress hills and a village on a crumbling rock. Ends in Rome, so plan for the ZTL.
- [Provence: lavender, gorges and Roman bridges](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/provence/index.md): Best from late June to mid-July, when the lavender is out.
- [Lake Garda and Lake Como](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/italian-lakes/index.md): Castle towns, lakeside campsites and car ferries between the villages.
- [Normandy and Brittany coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/normandy-brittany/index.md): Chalk arches, a tidal abbey and granite ports, with aires in most towns.
- [The Wild Atlantic Way: Clare to Kerry](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/wild-atlantic/index.md): Sea cliffs, music pubs and the Slea Head loop. Drive on the left.
- [Castles of the Rhine and Moselle](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/rhine-castles/index.md): Vineyard slopes, the Loreley and a castle hidden in the woods.
- [Andalusia: white villages and the Alhambra](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/andalusia/index.md): Houses under rock overhangs, a bridge over a gorge and Moorish palaces.
- [Chasing the midnight sun: Lofoten to Nordkapp](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/midnight-sun/index.md): Fishing villages under sharp peaks, then the long road north to 71°. Best from late May to July.
- [Sicily loop: temples, Etna and Baroque towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sicily-baroque/index.md): From Palermo along the north coast to Etna and Taormina, then south through the Baroque towns to the Valley of the Temples.
- [Sardinia’s Orientale Sarda](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/sardinia-east/index.md): The SS125 from Olbia to Cagliari: white beaches, the Gulf of Orosei and some of the wildest coast in the Mediterranean.
- [Puglia: trulli, white towns and the heel of Italy](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/puglia-trulli/index.md): Cliff towns, olive groves and cone-roofed trulli, then Baroque Lecce and the lighthouse at the tip of the heel.
- [Cilento and Maratea: the quiet side of Campania](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cilento-coast/index.md): Greek temples at Paestum, fishing villages and caves on the Cilento coast, then the cliffs of Maratea.
- [Great Dolomite Road: Bolzano to Cortina](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/great-dolomite-road/index.md): The historic road over the Costalunga and Pordoi passes, past Lake Carezza, ending in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
- [Lake Garda loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lake-garda-loop/index.md): Around Italy’s largest lake: the Gardesana tunnels, lemon houses at Limone, Monte Baldo and the castle at Sirmione.
- [Langhe and Roero: Barolo country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/langhe-wine/index.md): Truffles, hazelnuts and castle villages on vine-covered hills south of Turin.
- [Italian Riviera: Genoa to Lerici](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/riviera-levante/index.md): Portofino, Camogli, the Cinque Terre and the Gulf of Poets on the Via Aurelia.
- [Italy’s Food Valley: Parma to Ravenna](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/food-valley/index.md): Parmigiano, prosciutto and balsamic along the Via Emilia, with Bologna’s arcades and Ravenna’s mosaics.
- [Umbria’s hill towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/umbria-hill-towns/index.md): Perugia, Assisi, Spello, Spoleto and Orvieto, ending at Civita di Bagnoregio.
- [Abruzzo: Gran Sasso and the stone villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/abruzzo-high/index.md): Little Tibet at Campo Imperatore, the castle of Rocca Calascio and the road through the Sagittario gorge to Scanno.
- [Aosta Valley: castles and Gran Paradiso](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/aosta-valley/index.md): Castles on every spur, ibex in Italy’s oldest national park and Mont Blanc at the end of the road.
- [Stelvio and Bernina: two giants of the Alps](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/stelvio-bernina/index.md): Forty-eight hairpins over the Stelvio, duty-free Livigno, St. Moritz and down the Bernina pass to Tirano.
- [Val d’Orcia slow road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/val-dorcia-slow/index.md): Cypress avenues, Montalcino’s Brunello and Renaissance Pienza in a UNESCO landscape.
- [Corsica’s wild west coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/corsica-west/index.md): Calvi’s citadel, the red Calanche cliffs, Ajaccio and the white cliffs of Bonifacio.
- [Alsace Wine Route](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/alsace-wine/index.md): Half-timbered villages, storks and Riesling on the slopes below the Vosges.
- [Loire Valley châteaux](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/loire-chateaux/index.md): Chambord, Blois, Amboise and Chenonceau along the royal river, with cycle paths between them.
- [Dordogne and Lot: caves and cliff villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/dordogne-lot/index.md): Prehistoric art at Lascaux, villages under the cliffs, Rocamadour and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
- [Route Napoléon](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/route-napoleon/index.md): The road Napoleon took back from Elba, from the Alps down to the Riviera through Sisteron and Grasse.
- [Pyrenean cols: Tourmalet and Gavarnie](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/pyrenees-cols/index.md): The great climbs of the Tour de France and the rock amphitheatre of Gavarnie.
- [Opal Coast: Calais to the Bay of Somme](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/opal-coast/index.md): Chalk capes facing England, dunes and the seals of the Bay of Somme.
- [Burgundy’s Route des Grands Crus](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/burgundy-grand-crus/index.md): Stone villages with famous names, from Dijon down the Côte d’Or to Beaune and Cluny Abbey.
- [Tarn Gorges and the Causses](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/tarn-gorges/index.md): The Millau Viaduct, Roquefort’s cheese caves and a riverside road through a limestone canyon.
- [Camargue and Roman Provence](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/camargue-nimes/index.md): Flamingos and white horses, the walled town of Aigues-Mortes, Nîmes’ arena and the Pont du Gard.
- [French Riviera corniches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/riviera-corniches/index.md): The three corniches between Nice and Menton, Èze above the sea, and art villages behind Antibes.
- [Brittany’s north coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/brittany-north/index.md): Corsair Saint-Malo, the cliffs of Cap Fréhel and the pink granite of Ploumanac’h.
- [La Rochelle to the Dune du Pilat](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/atlantic-charente/index.md): Île de Ré, the naval town of Rochefort, cognac cellars and Bordeaux, ending on Europe’s highest dune.
- [Green Spain: Basque Country to Asturias](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/green-spain/index.md): Pintxos in San Sebastián, the Guggenheim, medieval Santillana, Gaudí in Comillas and the Picos de Europa.
- [Galicia: Santiago to the Rías Baixas](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/galicia-rias/index.md): The end of the Camino at Finisterre, stone granaries at Combarro and seafood towns on the rías.
- [Andalusia’s white villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/pueblos-blancos/index.md): Hilltop villages of the Sierra de Grazalema, cliff-top Arcos and sherry in Jerez.
- [Costa Brava and Dalí’s coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/costa-brava/index.md): Walled Tossa, the coves of Palafrugell, Cadaqués and Cap de Creus, then Figueres and Girona.
- [Sierra Nevada and the Alpujarra](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/alpujarra/index.md): From the Alhambra to flat-roofed villages high on the Sierra Nevada, then down to Frigiliana.
- [Old Castile: aqueducts and city walls](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/castile-walls/index.md): Segovia’s Roman aqueduct, the complete medieval walls of Ávila and golden Salamanca.
- [Aragon Pyrenees and Ordesa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/aragon-pyrenees/index.md): Loarre Castle, the medieval town of Aínsa and one of Europe’s great canyons.
- [Alentejo coast and the Rota Vicentina](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/rota-vicentina/index.md): Rice fields at Comporta, clifftop villages and wild beaches to Cape St Vincent.
- [Northern Portugal: Minho and Gerês](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/minho-geres/index.md): The birthplace of Portugal, Baroque Braga, granite mountains and a Roman bridge at Ponte de Lima.
- [Central Portugal: Templars and granite villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/central-portugal/index.md): Coimbra, the highest road in Portugal, the boulder village of Monsanto and the Templar convent at Tomar.
- [Black Forest High Road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/black-forest-b500/index.md): Spa town Baden-Baden, dark mountain lakes, cuckoo clocks and Titisee on the B500.
- [Baltic coast: Hanseatic towns and chalk cliffs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/baltic-brick/index.md): Red-brick Lübeck, Wismar and Stralsund, then the chalk cliffs of Rügen.
- [German Alpine Road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/german-alpine-road/index.md): Lake Constance to Königssee along the foot of the Alps, past Neuschwanstein, Oberammergau and Garmisch.
- [Moselle and Saar](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/moselle-saar/index.md): Roman Trier, steep vineyards around Bernkastel, Burg Eltz and the Saar loop.
- [Saxon Switzerland and the Elbe](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/saxon-switzerland/index.md): Meissen porcelain, Baroque Dresden, the Bastei bridge and Königstein Fortress.
- [German Fairy Tale Route](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/fairy-tale-road/index.md): On the trail of the Brothers Grimm, from Hanau to the Town Musicians of Bremen via Hamelin.
- [Salzkammergut lakes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/salzkammergut/index.md): From Salzburg past St. Wolfgang to Hallstatt’s lake and Gmunden’s ceramics.
- [Zillertal, Krimml and the Grossglockner](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/tyrol-krimml/index.md): Tyrolean valleys, Austria’s highest waterfalls and the country’s most famous Alpine road.
- [Wachau: the Danube wine valley](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/wachau/index.md): Melk Abbey, apricot orchards, terraced vineyards and the blue tower of Dürnstein.
- [Lake Geneva, Lavaux and Gruyères](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/lake-geneva-gruyere/index.md): Vineyard terraces, Chillon Castle and a cheese village below the Fribourg Alps, on the way to Bern.
- [Ticino: Swiss lakes, Italian style](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/ticino/index.md): Palm trees on Lake Lugano, Locarno and the emerald water of the Verzasca valley.
- [Along the Glacier Express](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/glacier-express-road/index.md): Zermatt’s car-free valley to St. Moritz by road, over the Furka and Oberalp passes.
- [Sweden’s High Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/high-coast/index.md): The world’s highest shoreline rise, red cabins, and a gorge in Skuleskogen National Park.
- [Bohuslän: Sweden’s west coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/bohuslan/index.md): Granite islands, fishing villages and seafood from Gothenburg to Strömstad.
- [Denmark’s wild west coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/denmark-west/index.md): Ribe, the country’s oldest town, a beach you can drive on, dunes and the tip of Skagen.
- [Southern Norway: Kristiansand to Preikestolen](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/south-norway/index.md): Norway’s southern tip, the North Sea road through Egersund and the cliff above Lysefjord.
- [Hardangerfjord and its waterfalls](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/hardanger/index.md): Fruit orchards on the fjord, a waterfall you walk behind and Vøringsfossen on the edge of the Hardangervidda.
- [Finnish Lakeland](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/finnish-lakeland/index.md): Old Porvoo, the lake castle at Savonlinna, the Punkaharju ridge and Kuopio’s harbour.
- [Cornwall’s Atlantic coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/cornwall/index.md): St Ives, a theatre in the cliffs, Land’s End and King Arthur’s Tintagel.
- [Yorkshire: York, the moors and the Dales](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/yorkshire/index.md): Medieval York, the harbour and abbey at Whitby and the Ribblehead Viaduct.
- [Wales: Brecon Beacons to Snowdonia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/wales/index.md): Across Wales on the A470, up Snowdon and on to Conwy’s castle and Portmeirion.
- [Causeway Coastal Route](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/causeway-coast/index.md): Glens of Antrim, a rope bridge, the Dark Hedges and the basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway.
- [Ring of Kerry and the Skellig Ring](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/ring-of-kerry/index.md): Lakes, bogs and Atlantic headlands around the Iveragh peninsula.
- [Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/royal-deeside/index.md): Perth, the Highland village of Braemar, Aberdeen and the cliff castle of Dunnottar.
- [Transylvania: castles and Saxon towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/transylvania/index.md): Brașov, Bran Castle, the citadel of Sighișoara, Sibiu and the Transfăgărășan.
- [Dubrovnik and the Bay of Kotor](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/boka-coast/index.md): From Dubrovnik’s walls into the fjord-like Bay of Kotor, then south to Sveti Stefan.
- [High Tatras: Poland and Slovakia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/high-tatras/index.md): Kraków’s salt mine, Zakopane, mountain lakes on both sides of the border and Spiš Castle.
- [Bohemian castles](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/bohemia/index.md): Karlštejn, the silver town of Kutná Hora and the river bends of Český Krumlov.
- [Lake Balaton](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/balaton/index.md): Tihany’s lavender and abbey, wine hills on the north shore and the thermal lake at Hévíz.
- [Peloponnese: Corinth to Olympia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/peloponnese/index.md): The Corinth Canal, Venetian Nafplio, the rock town of Monemvasia, the tower houses of Mani and Ancient Olympia.
- [Istria: coast towns and truffle hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/istria/index.md): Pula’s arena, Venetian Rovinj, hill towns above the truffle woods and belle-époque Opatija.
- [Slovenian Karst: caves and a cave castle](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/slovenia-karst/index.md): Ljubljana, the underground railway of Postojna, Predjama Castle and the Venetian port of Piran.
- [North Iceland: the Diamond Circle](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/iceland-north/index.md): Goðafoss, the volcanic lake of Mývatn, Dettifoss and whale watching from Húsavík.
- [The Ardennes: Luxembourg and Belgium](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/ardennes/index.md): Hilltop castles and river towns in the Ardennes forest, from Vianden to Dinant.
- [Tulips, windmills and dikes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/dutch-classics/index.md): Keukenhof’s bulb fields, the mills of Zaanse Schans, the Afsluitdijk and the canals of Giethoorn.
- [Riviera di Ponente: Genoa to the French border](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-riviera-ponente/index.md): Medieval harbour towns, prehistoric footprints in a cave and Monet’s bridge on the western Ligurian coast, ending in a garden above the sea.
- [Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-maggiore-orta/index.md): A convent island on quiet Lake Orta, then palace gardens and island hopping on the western shore of Lake Maggiore.
- [Bergamo, Lake Iseo and the Valcamonica rock art](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-iseo-valcamonica/index.md): From Bergamo’s walled upper town through the Franciacorta vineyards to a car-free lake island and thousands of prehistoric carvings.
- [Brenta Dolomites and the Val di Non](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-brenta-dolomites/index.md): A loop from Trento round the Brenta group: a lake resort, a thundering waterfall, Madonna di Campiglio and a gorge sanctuary among apple orchards.
- [Friuli: from the Adriatic lagoons to the Julian Alps](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-friuli/index.md): Habsburg Trieste, Roman Aquileia, a star-shaped fortress town and Lombard Cividale, then north to mountain lakes on the Slovenian border.
- [Palladian villas and the Prosecco hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-prosecco-palladio/index.md): Vicenza and Palladio’s villas, the covered bridge of Bassano, hill-town Asolo and the steep vineyards of Valdobbiadene and Conegliano.
- [Po Delta: lagoons, abbeys and Ferrara](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-po-delta/index.md): A flat, quiet trip through Italy’s largest wetland: fishing towns, mussel lagoons, a Romanesque abbey and the Renaissance city of Ferrara.
- [Montefeltro: Rimini to Urbino and Gradara](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-montefeltro/index.md): Behind the Adriatic beaches: a Roman bridge, a fortress on a rock, Renaissance Urbino and the castle of Paolo and Francesca.
- [Conero Riviera and the Frasassi caves](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-conero-frasassi/index.md): White coves under Monte Conero, the pilgrim town of Loreto and Leopardi’s Recanati, then inland to one of Europe’s largest show caves.
- [Monti Sibillini: Ascoli to the flowering plain](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sibillini/index.md): From the travertine squares of Ascoli Piceno over high passes to the Piano Grande, then through the Sibillini valleys to lakes and gorges.
- [Trabocchi Coast to the Molise and Abruzzo mountains](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-trabocchi-molise/index.md): Fishing platforms on stilts along the Adriatic, then up into Molise for Samnite ruins and a bell foundry, ending in bear country in the Abruzzo National Park.
- [Gargano: forest, cliffs and sea stacks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gargano/index.md): The spur of Italy’s boot: an archangel’s cave sanctuary, white sea stacks, Vieste’s monolith and an ancient beech forest.
- [Castles and ravines of the Alta Murgia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-alta-murgia/index.md): From Bari’s coast of Romanesque cathedrals up to Frederick II’s octagonal castle, a giant sinkhole and the cave town of Gravina.
- [Basilicata: Matera, ghost towns and the Lucanian Dolomites](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-basilicata/index.md): Matera from across the ravine, the abandoned town of Craco, rock villages linked by a zip line and crater lakes on an extinct volcano.
- [Calabria’s Coast of the Gods](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-costa-degli-dei/index.md): Pizzo’s cave church and ice cream, Tropea on its cliff, the Capo Vaticano headland and the Riace Bronzes at the toe of Italy.
- [Pollino and Sila: Calabria’s mountain heart](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-pollino-sila/index.md): A village stacked on a hill, an Albanian-speaking community above a gorge, a purple Byzantine manuscript and the ancient pines of the Sila.
- [Western Sicily: Segesta, Erice and the salt pans](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sicily-west/index.md): Gold mosaics at Monreale, a lone Greek temple, a roadless nature reserve, the hilltop town of Erice and windmills on the salt pans of Marsala.
- [Inland Sicily: mosaics, majolica and the Madonie](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sicily-interior/index.md): Through the island’s high interior: a tiled staircase, Roman floor mosaics, the belvedere city of Enna and mountain villages above Cefalù.
- [Sardinia’s west coast: Alghero to Barumini](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-sardinia-west/index.md): Catalan Alghero and a sea cave under Capo Caccia, the cliff road to Bosa, quartz beaches and Phoenician ruins on the Sinis, then the Bronze Age at Barumini.
- [Gallura: granite coast of northern Sardinia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-gallura/index.md): The Costa Smeralda, a bear carved by the wind, Capo Testa facing Corsica and a castle town above the sea, ending at La Pelosa.
- [Piedmont’s western valleys: forts and the source of the Po](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-piedmont-valleys/index.md): From Turin to a mountaintop abbey, Roman Susa and a giant Alpine fortress, then through the Po plain to Saluzzo and up to the foot of Monviso.
- [Maremma: cypresses, hot springs and tuff towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b1-maremma/index.md): The cypress avenue of Bolgheri, Etruscan tombs by the sea, a wild coastal park, free hot springs and towns carved out of volcanic rock.
- [Normandy’s D-Day beaches](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-d-day-beaches/index.md): From Pegasus Bridge to Utah Beach along the coast of 6 June 1944, with the Bayeux Tapestry and a granite fishing port to finish.
- [Finistère: the capes at the end of Brittany](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-finistere-capes/index.md): The cliffs of the Crozon peninsula, the Pointe du Raz and the granite towns of Locronan, Quimper and Concarneau.
- [South Brittany: menhirs and the Gulf of Morbihan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-morbihan-megaliths/index.md): Gauguin’s Pont-Aven, the wild coast of Quiberon, the standing stones of Carnac and the medieval streets of Vannes.
- [Upper Loire: canal bridges and Sancerre wine](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-upper-loire/index.md): Romanesque monks, a steel canal over the Loire, a castle being built with medieval tools and the hill town of Sancerre.
- [Chablis, Vézelay and the Morvan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-burgundy-abbeys/index.md): White wine villages, two of France’s finest abbeys and the lakes and forests of the Morvan, ending in Roman Autun.
- [Jura: yellow wine, blind valleys and waterfalls](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-jura-waterfalls/index.md): Ledoux’s royal saltworks, the vineyards of Arbois and Château-Chalon, and a chain of waterfalls in the forest.
- [Route des Crêtes through the Vosges](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-vosges-cretes/index.md): A high road along the Vosges ridge from Gérardmer’s lake to the Grand Ballon, a First World War battlefield and the Ballon d’Alsace.
- [Lorraine: Metz, Nancy and Verdun](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-lorraine-verdun/index.md): A cathedral of light, the gilded Place Stanislas and the battlefields of the Meuse, from 1916 to the American offensive of 1918.
- [Champagne: Reims to the Côte des Blancs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-champagne-slopes/index.md): Coronation cathedral, a lighthouse among the vines and the cellars of Épernay, on a short trip through the champagne hills.
- [Vercors: gorges and cliff roads](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-vercors-balconies/index.md): A limestone fortress south-west of Grenoble, with roads cut into sheer cliffs and a sudden drop into Provence at the Col du Rousset.
- [Savoy lakes and the Chartreuse massif](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-savoy-lakes-chartreuse/index.md): From Annecy to the spa town of Aix-les-Bains, an abbey on Lac du Bourget, the dukes’ Chambéry and the forests of the Chartreuse.
- [Luberon perched villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-luberon-villages/index.md): A spring in a cliff, Sénanque’s lavender, Roussillon’s ochre cliffs and the hill villages of Bonnieux and Lourmarin.
- [Drôme provençale: olives, lavender and Roman Vaison](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-drome-provencale/index.md): From nougat town Montélimar to Grignan’s castle, Nyons olive oil, Roman Vaison and the Dentelles de Montmirail.
- [Ardèche gorges and the Chauvet cave](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-ardeche-gorges/index.md): Perched Balazuc, the replica of the world’s oldest cave paintings, the Pont d’Arc and the belvederes of the gorge road.
- [Cathar castles of the Corbières](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-cathar-castles/index.md): Fortresses on razor ridges between Carcassonne and the Pyrenees: Peyrepertuse, Quéribus, Puilaurens and Montségur.
- [Côte Vermeille and the little yellow train](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-cote-vermeille-conflent/index.md): Matisse’s Collioure, Banyuls wine and cherry town Céret, then up the Têt valley to Vauban’s fortresses and the yellow train.
- [French Basque Country: coast and hill villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-basque-country/index.md): Bayonne ham, the cliffs of the Corniche, the train up La Rhune and red-and-white villages on the way to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
- [Landes: surf, pine forest and hidden lakes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-landes-coast/index.md): Surf towns, a jungle-like river, an old forest hamlet and lakes behind the dunes, from Hossegor to Arcachon.
- [Auvergne volcanoes: Puy de Dôme to Puy Mary](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-auvergne-volcanoes/index.md): The Chaîne des Puys, Romanesque Orcival, crater lakes and the high road over the Cantal to Salers.
- [Limousin: porcelain, tapestry and red villages](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-limousin-heartland/index.md): A martyred village, Limoges porcelain, Aubusson tapestries, the Vassivière lake and the red sandstone of Collonges.
- [Southern Corsica: Bavella and the Alta Rocca](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-corsica-south/index.md): Turquoise bays near Porto-Vecchio, the granite spires of Bavella, proud Sartène and the carved menhirs of Filitosa.
- [Red gorges behind Nice](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b2-nice-red-gorges/index.md): Two gorges of red rock above the Var, the ski village of Valberg, fortified Entrevaux and the eagle’s nest of Gourdon.
- [Almería: Tabernas desert and Cabo de Gata](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-cabo-de-gata/index.md): A Moorish fortress, the badlands where spaghetti westerns were filmed and the volcanic coves of Europe’s driest coast.
- [Costa de la Luz: Cádiz to Tarifa](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-costa-de-la-luz/index.md): Long Atlantic beaches, a white hill town, the cape of Trafalgar and Roman ruins beside a giant dune, ending where Europe looks at Africa.
- [Huelva: Aracena, Riotinto and Doñana](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-huelva-donana/index.md): Ham country and a show cave in the sierra, a red river at Riotinto, Columbus’s monastery and the wetlands of Doñana.
- [Úbeda, Baeza and the Sierra de Cazorla](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-sierra-cazorla/index.md): Renaissance squares in a sea of olive trees, then the pine forests, gorges and reservoirs of Spain’s largest protected area.
- [Extremadura: vultures, conquistadors and Roman Mérida](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-extremadura/index.md): Monfragüe’s cliffs, the towns of the conquistadors, a monastery in the hills and the best Roman theatre in Spain.
- [Navarre and La Rioja: the wine road of the Camino](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-rioja-navarre/index.md): A royal palace in Olite, pilgrim bridges and a wine fountain, tapas in Logroño and the walled wine towns of the Rioja.
- [Inland Catalonia: Montserrat to the Garrotxa volcanoes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-catalonia-volcanoes/index.md): Montserrat’s monastery, a mountain of salt, the market square of Vic and a landscape of extinct volcanoes and basalt cliffs.
- [Tarragona, Priorat wine and the Ebro Delta](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-priorat-delta/index.md): Roman Tarraco, a royal Cistercian monastery, cliff villages among slate vineyards and the rice fields of the Ebro Delta.
- [Southern Aragon: waterfalls, cranes and Mudéjar Teruel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-teruel-albarracin/index.md): The waterfalls of the Monasterio de Piedra, a lake full of cranes, pink-walled Albarracín and the tiled towers of Teruel.
- [La Mancha: windmills and the hanging houses of Cuenca](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-la-mancha/index.md): From Toledo across Don Quixote’s plains to windmill ridges and a star-shaped castle, ending at Cuenca’s houses above a gorge.
- [Asturias to León: Somiedo, Las Médulas and the Camino](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-somiedo-leon/index.md): From Oviedo’s pre-Romanesque halls over the bear country of Somiedo to Roman gold mines, Gaudí in Astorga and León’s glass cathedral.
- [Inland Galicia: Lugo, the Sil canyon and hot springs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-ribeira-sacra/index.md): Walk the Roman walls of Lugo, look into the terraced canyons of the Ribeira Sacra and soak in open-air hot springs in Ourense.
- [Western Asturias: capes, fishing villages and the Cathedrals beach](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-asturias-west/index.md): Wild headlands, the colourful harbours of Cudillero and Luarca, and the rock arches of the Praia das Catedrais in Galicia.
- [Valencia to Cartagena: Costa Blanca and Murcia](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-costa-blanca-murcia/index.md): The rice fields of the Albufera, cliff capes and castle villages of the Costa Blanca, Elche’s palm grove and the wild beaches of Calblanque.
- [Mallorca: the Serra de Tramuntana road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-mallorca-tramuntana/index.md): Palma’s cathedral, mountain villages of stone and olive terraces, the hairpins down to Sa Calobra and the cliffs of Formentor.
- [The Douro Valley and the N222](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-douro-n222/index.md): From Porto to the terraced port vineyards of the upper Douro, with Baroque stairways, riverside roads and Stone Age art in the Côa valley.
- [Alentejo: standing stones, marble towns and border castles](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-alentejo-castles/index.md): A prehistoric stone circle among cork oaks, the hilltop village of Monsaraz, marble towns and the eagle’s nest of Marvão.
- [Down the Guadiana: Beja to Castro Marim](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-guadiana/index.md): Along Portugal’s border river from the plains of Beja past waterfalls, a Moorish river town and an abandoned mine to the Algarve’s eastern edge.
- [The hidden Algarve: villages and the Serra de Monchique](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-algarve-hills/index.md): Away from the beaches: Roman ruins, market towns, a red sandstone castle and the highest peak in the Algarve.
- [Historic villages of the Beira](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-beira-historic-villages/index.md): Fortified granite villages on the old frontier with Spain, a star-shaped fortress and the schist village of Piódão.
- [Serra da Arrábida and the Setúbal peninsula](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-arrabida/index.md): Across the Tagus from Lisbon to a windswept cape, fishing towns, the green cliffs of Arrábida and a castle above the Moscatel vineyards.
- [Along the Tagus: Templar castles and river gorges](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b3-tagus-castles/index.md): Up the Tagus from Lisbon to Gothic Santarém, a castle on an island, riverside villages and the vulture cliffs of the Portas de Ródão.
- [North Frisia: dikes, lighthouses and mudflats](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-north-frisian-coast/index.md): From Friedrichstadt’s canals across the Eider to the vast beach of St. Peter-Ording, the Westerhever lighthouse and Theodor Storm’s “grey town” of Husum.
- [East Frisia’s Wadden coast: harbours and lighthouses](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-east-frisian-coast/index.md): Fishing harbours with shrimp cutters, striped lighthouses on the dike and seal pups at Norddeich, from Emden to Jever.
- [Harz: half-timbered towns and the Brocken](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-harz-mountains/index.md): UNESCO mining heritage in Goslar, the Brocken view from Torfhaus, a record-breaking dam bridge and the witches’ plateau above the Bode Gorge.
- [Thuringian Forest: Wartburg to Weimar](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-thuringian-forest/index.md): Luther’s castle, the forest ridges along the Rennsteig, colourful grottoes at Saalfeld and the classical town of Goethe and Schiller.
- [Franconian Switzerland: rocks, caves and castles](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-franconian-switzerland/index.md): Dolomite towers, dripstone caves and hilltop castles between Bamberg and Bayreuth, a compact loop with good campsites along the rivers.
- [German Wine Route through the Palatinate](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-palatinate-wine-road/index.md): Some 85 km of vineyards, wine villages and castle ruins from Bockenheim to the French border, with almond trees blooming in early spring.
- [Swabian Alb: castles, springs and the Danube](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-swabian-alb/index.md): Cliff-top castles, a tufa waterfall and the blue Blautopf spring on the limestone plateau between Stuttgart and Ulm.
- [Lake Constance’s German shore](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-lake-constance-north/index.md): Monastery and garden islands, a Rococo basilica, prehistoric stilt houses and the island town of Lindau along the northern shore.
- [Bavarian Forest: from Passau to Regensburg](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-bavarian-forest/index.md): Germany’s oldest national park, glassmaking towns, a dark glacial lake and the Walhalla temple above the Danube.
- [Mecklenburg Lake District by motorhome](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-mecklenburg-lakes/index.md): A fairy-tale castle in Schwerin, then lakeside towns around the Müritz, the largest lake lying entirely in Germany, ending at Rheinsberg Palace.
- [Carinthia’s warm lakes: Ossiach and Wörthersee](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-carinthian-lakes/index.md): Swimming lakes, a peninsula church and a castle of fourteen gates, between Villach and Klagenfurt.
- [South Styrian Wine Road](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-south-styria-wine/index.md): Steep vineyards, clattering klapotetz and Buschenschank taverns along the Slovenian border, ending at the Riegersburg fortress.
- [Ötztal and the Timmelsjoch](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-oetztal-timmelsjoch/index.md): Up Tyrol’s longest side valley past its highest waterfall to Sölden’s glacier road and the high pass on the Italian border.
- [Silvretta and Arlberg loop](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-silvretta-arlberg/index.md): From Lake Constance through the Montafon, over the Silvretta High Alpine Road and back via St. Anton and the Flexen Pass to Lech.
- [Kamptal and Waldviertel: castles beyond the Wachau](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-kamptal-waldviertel/index.md): Wine terraces in Langenlois, then castles and abbeys in the quiet granite forests of Lower Austria’s north.
- [Burgenland: Lake Neusiedl and the Seewinkel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-lake-neusiedl/index.md): Haydn’s palace, stork-nest roofs in Rust and the steppe lakes of Austria’s flattest national park.
- [Swiss Jura: Doubs gorges and the Creux du Van](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-swiss-jura/index.md): A medieval river town, the horse country of the Franches-Montagnes, watchmaking La Chaux-de-Fonds and a rock amphitheatre above Neuchâtel.
- [Emmental cheese country to Lake Lucerne](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-emmental-entlebuch/index.md): Covered bridges, huge farmhouses and a show dairy in the Emmental, then through the Entlebuch biosphere to Lucerne.
- [Lakes Thun and Brienz to the Grimsel Pass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-thun-brienz-grimsel/index.md): Lakeside castles and caves, Giessbach’s cascades, the Aare Gorge and a granite pass high above the Haslital.
- [Valais: vineyards, spas and the Aletsch Glacier](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-valais-rhone/index.md): Up the Rhône valley from Martigny past Sion’s castle hills to the thermal springs of Leukerbad, car-free Saas-Fee and the Alps’ longest glacier.
- [Albula Pass and the Lower Engadine](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-albula-lower-engadine/index.md): Over the Albula into the Engadine, then through the Swiss National Park area to painted villages and Tarasp Castle.
- [Rhine Falls to the Säntis](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b4-rhine-falls-appenzell/index.md): Europe’s mightiest waterfall, painted Stein am Rhein, St. Gallen’s abbey library and the green hills of Appenzell below the Alpstein.
- [Zeeland and the Delta Works](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-zeeland-delta/index.md): Storm barriers, dams and old harbour towns: the road the Dutch built across the sea after the 1953 flood.
- [Friesland and the Wadden coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-frisian-wadden/index.md): Painted towns on the IJsselmeer, a planetarium in a living room and the mudflats of the Wadden Sea, from Hindeloopen to Groningen.
- [Hoge Veluwe and the Hanseatic IJssel](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-veluwe-ijssel/index.md): Van Gogh in the forest, a royal palace, heathland and the old Hanseatic towns on the IJssel, in the green heart of the Netherlands.
- [In Flanders Fields: the Yser and Ypres](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-flanders-fields/index.md): The Western Front of the First World War, from the flooded Yser plain to Tyne Cot and the Last Post under the Menin Gate.
- [Mullerthal and the Luxembourg Moselle](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-mullerthal-moselle/index.md): Sandstone gorges and mossy waterfalls in Luxembourg’s Little Switzerland, then the wine villages of the Moselle down to Schengen.
- [Funen and the islands of the South Funen Sea](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-funen-islands/index.md): Andersen’s Odense, a castle in a lake and a string of bridged islands with thatched villages and sailing harbours.
- [Chalk cliffs of Stevns and Møn](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-mon-stevns/index.md): From Copenhagen south to two white chalk coasts, a medieval tower and the bridges to Falster.
- [Central Jutland: lakes, runestones and LEGO](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-jutland-lakes-lego/index.md): Bog bodies and Vikings, the Silkeborg lakes and Denmark’s birth certificate in Jelling, ending in the home of LEGO: a family trip.
- [The Helgeland coast: Kystriksveien to Bodø](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-helgeland-coast/index.md): Six ferries, a mountain with a hole in it, a glacier near the sea and the world’s strongest tidal current on Norway’s coastal road.
- [Senja and Andøya: Norway in miniature](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-senja-andoya/index.md): Jagged peaks rising from the sea on Senja’s outer coast, then a summer ferry to the whale waters off Andenes.
- [Lofoten end to end, by ferry from Bodø](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-lofoten-ferry/index.md): Cross from Bodø to the far end of Lofoten, then drive the E10 back through fishing villages, white beaches and a Viking longhouse.
- [Jotunheimen: Valdresflye and Sognefjellet](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-jotunheimen/index.md): Two high mountain roads through Norway’s tallest peaks, from the Valdres valley via Lom to the head of the Sognefjord and the oldest stave church.
- [Rondane and Dovrefjell: musk oxen and mountain views](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-rondane-dovre/index.md): From Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal to Norway’s first national park and the high plateau of Dovrefjell, home of wild musk oxen.
- [Telemark: canal locks, stave churches and Rjukan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-telemark-canal/index.md): Along the Telemark Canal to the biggest stave church in Norway, up to the peak of Gaustatoppen and into the valley of the heavy-water saboteurs.
- [Gotland by ferry: Visby, raukar and the south cape](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-gotland/index.md): The ferry to Sweden’s largest island: the walled town of Visby, sea stacks on Fårö and a quiet coast of beaches and old churches.
- [Dalarna: copper, painters and Lake Siljan](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-dalarna-siljan/index.md): Sweden in its most traditional dress: a UNESCO copper mine, the homes of Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, red cottages and the workshops of the Dala horse.
- [Swedish Lapland: Kiruna to Narvik on the E10](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-kiruna-narvik/index.md): The Icehotel, the clear skies of Abisko and the road across the mountains to a Norwegian fjord, under the midnight sun or the northern lights.
- [Österlen: Skåne’s quiet corner](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-osterlen/index.md): A stone ship on a cliff, the best-preserved medieval castle in Scandinavia and apple orchards by the sea at the south-eastern tip of Sweden.
- [Finland’s Archipelago Trail from Turku](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-archipelago-trail/index.md): A ring road of bridges and small ferries through the thousands of islands of south-west Finland, starting and ending near Turku.
- [Finnish Lapland: Rovaniemi to Inari](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-finnish-lapland/index.md): Santa, reindeer and the Sámi homeland, driving the long road north through forest and fells to Lake Inari.
- [Snæfellsnes: Iceland in miniature](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-snaefellsnes/index.md): A glacier-topped volcano, a black church, basalt columns and the most photographed mountain in Iceland, all within a few hours of Reykjavík.
- [Iceland’s Westfjords: puffins, fjords and Dynjandi](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b5-westfjords/index.md): The ferry across Breiðafjörður into Iceland’s most remote region: Europe’s westernmost cliffs, a waterfall like a bridal veil and quiet fishing towns.
- [Jurassic Coast: Lyme Regis to Old Harry](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-jurassic-coast/index.md): Fossil beaches, a shingle bank 29 km long, Durdle Door and a ruined castle along Dorset’s World Heritage coast.
- [Cotswold villages: Bath to Chipping Campden](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-cotswolds/index.md): From Georgian Bath through honey-stone villages along the Roman Fosse Way to the wool town of Chipping Campden.
- [Peak District: Mam Tor, Ladybower and Chatsworth](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-peak-district/index.md): A spa town, the ‘shivering mountain’, caves at Castleton, drowned villages and the grandest house in Derbyshire.
- [Lake District passes: Kirkstone to Hardknott](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-lake-district-passes/index.md): England’s steepest roads link the lakes: Kirkstone, Honister, lonely Wast Water and the hairpins of Hardknott and Wrynose.
- [Northumberland’s coast of castles](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-northumberland-coast/index.md): From Newcastle north to Alnwick, the ruins of Dunstanburgh, Bamburgh on its crag and the tidal island of Lindisfarne.
- [Hadrian’s Wall: Carlisle to Hexham](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-hadrians-wall/index.md): Roman forts, a museum of soldiers’ letters and the wall riding its cliffs along the old Military Road.
- [North Norfolk coast: seals, saltmarsh and sand](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-norfolk-coast/index.md): Striped cliffs, the huge beach at Holkham, boat trips to the seals of Blakeney Point and dunes where grey seals pup in winter.
- [Kent: castles, Canterbury and the white cliffs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-kent-garden-of-england/index.md): A moated castle, oysters at Whitstable, Canterbury Cathedral, the White Cliffs of Dover and the shingle wilderness of Dungeness.
- [North Devon and Exmoor on the Atlantic Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-exmoor-coast/index.md): A car-free fishing village, the high cliffs of Exmoor, a prehistoric clapper bridge and medieval Dunster.
- [Gower and the Pembrokeshire coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-gower-pembrokeshire/index.md): Limestone bays on Gower, Dylan Thomas’s Laugharne, harbour town Tenby, a chapel in the cliffs and Britain’s smallest city.
- [Isle of Skye by the bridge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-skye-loop/index.md): Eilean Donan, the Fairy Pools below the Cuillin, Neist Point lighthouse, Portree and the Trotternish ridge.
- [Mull and Iona by ferry from Oban](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-mull-iona/index.md): A short ferry to Mull, Duart Castle, colourful Tobermory, white sands at Calgary and the holy island of Iona.
- [Argyll: Loch Lomond to Kilmartin and Oban](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-argyll-lochs/index.md): Loch Lomond, the Rest and Be Thankful, Inveraray on Loch Fyne, prehistoric Kilmartin Glen and the Crinan Canal.
- [Galloway: dark skies to the Mull of Galloway](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-galloway/index.md): Scotland’s quiet south-west: a moated castle, an artists’ town, a dark-sky forest park and the country’s most southerly point.
- [Scottish Borders: abbeys along the Tweed](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-scottish-borders/index.md): Rosslyn’s carved chapel, the old house at Traquair, the great ruined abbeys of Melrose and Jedburgh and Walter Scott’s favourite view.
- [Connemara: bogs, the Sky Road and Kylemore](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-connemara/index.md): West from Galway through bogs and lakes to Roundstone and Clifden, the Sky Road, Kylemore Abbey and the fjord at Killary.
- [Ring of Beara and the Healy Pass](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-beara/index.md): The quieter neighbour of the Ring of Kerry: a tunnel pass, fishing harbours, a cable car to Dursey and the zigzags of the Healy Pass.
- [Donegal: Slieve League to Fanad Head](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-donegal-highlands/index.md): Some of Europe’s highest sea cliffs, Gaelic-speaking valleys, a mountain pass, Glenveagh National Park and the lighthouse at Fanad Head.
- [Sligo: Yeats Country and ancient tombs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-sligo-yeats/index.md): Megalithic tombs at Carrowmore, the cairn on Knocknarea, a waterfall from a Yeats poem and his grave below Benbulben.
- [Wicklow Mountains: the Military Road to Glendalough](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-wicklow-mountains/index.md): The garden of Ireland just south of Dublin: a high waterfall, the bogs of the Sally Gap, Lough Tay and the monastic valley of Glendalough.
- [Boyne Valley: Tara, Trim and Newgrange](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-boyne-valley/index.md): Five thousand years of Irish history within an hour of Dublin: the hill of the High Kings, a Norman castle, Newgrange and a carved high cross.
- [Waterford’s Copper Coast and the Comeraghs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b6-copper-coast/index.md): Viking Waterford, the coves and mine ruins of a UNESCO geopark, a mountain waterfall, Ardmore’s round tower and a castle on the Blackwater.
- [Masuria: the land of a thousand lakes](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-masurian-lakes/index.md): Baroque pilgrim churches, wartime bunkers and a chain of lakes linked by canals, with the Krutynia canoe river at the end.
- [Poland’s Baltic dunes: Hel to Łeba](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-leba-dunes/index.md): From Gdańsk out along the thin Hel Peninsula, then west past Poland’s northernmost cape to the moving dunes of Słowiński National Park.
- [South Moravian wine country](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-moravian-wine/index.md): Wine towns, cellar lanes and château parks along the Austrian border, from Znojmo to the Pálava hills and Lednice.
- [Bohemian Paradise and the Adršpach rocks](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-bohemian-paradise/index.md): Sandstone labyrinths, castles on volcanic plugs and forest trails north-east of Prague.
- [Slovak Paradise and the Gemer karst](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-slovak-paradise/index.md): Ladders up waterfall gorges, an ice cave, the Andrássy manors and a cave on the Hungarian border.
- [Central Slovakia: castles and old mining towns](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-slovak-mining-towns/index.md): Bojnice’s fairy-tale castle, the gold and silver towns of Kremnica and Banská Štiavnica, and the caves of the Low Tatras.
- [Eger and Tokaj: Hungary’s northern wine hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-tokaj-eger/index.md): From Eger’s castle and cellar valley to the Aggtelek caves and the sweet wines of Tokaj.
- [Southern Hungary: paprika, Villány wine and Pécs](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-southern-hungary/index.md): Down the Danube plain to paprika country, the battlefield of Mohács, the red wines of Villány and Mediterranean-feeling Pécs.
- [Maramureș: wooden churches and the Merry Cemetery](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-maramures/index.md): Tall shingled churches, carved gates, haystacks and horse carts in Romania’s most traditional corner, up to the Prislop pass.
- [Dobruja: the edge of the Danube Delta](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-danube-delta/index.md): Granite hills, the delta towns of Tulcea and Murighiol, lagoon fortresses and Greek ruins on the way to Constanța.
- [Rila and Pirin: lakes, monasteries and sand pyramids](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-rila-pirin/index.md): From Sofia to the Seven Rila Lakes and Rila Monastery, then south to Melnik’s sand pyramids and up to Bansko below the Pirin peaks.
- [Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast: Kaliakra to Sozopol](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-bulgarian-black-sea/index.md): Cave monasteries above Varna, Queen Marie’s palace gardens, the red cliffs of Kaliakra and the old towns of Nessebar and Sozopol.
- [Kamnik Alps and the Logar Valley](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-logar-valley/index.md): Herdsmen’s huts on Velika Planina, the high Črnivec road and the glacial Logar Valley below the walls of the Kamnik–Savinja Alps.
- [Eastern Slovenia: castles and wine hills](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-styria-wine/index.md): Celje’s castle, the world’s oldest vine in Maribor, Roman Ptuj and the terraced Jeruzalem hills near the Hungarian border.
- [Kvarner: Rijeka and the island of Krk](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-kvarner-krk/index.md): Rijeka’s castle, the bridge to Krk, Glagolitic heritage and the pebble beaches of Baška, then the Uskok fortress of Senj.
- [Southern Dalmatia: Neretva delta to Pelješac](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-peljesac/index.md): From Split past the Makarska Riviera and the Neretva orchards, over the new Pelješac bridge to the walls of Ston and the Dingač vineyards.
- [Montenegro’s Durmitor ring](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-durmitor/index.md): From the Bay of Kotor to the cliff monastery of Ostrog, the Piva canyon, the high Sedlo pass and the Tara canyon bridge.
- [Montenegro’s south coast, Lake Skadar and Lovćen](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-montenegro-coast/index.md): Sveti Stefan and the ruins of Stari Bar, Ulcinj’s long beaches, the lakeside villages of Skadar and the old royal capital of Cetinje.
- [Zagori: stone villages and the Vikos Gorge](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-zagori/index.md): From Igoumenitsa to Ioannina and into the Zagori, a region of stone bridges, slate-roofed villages and one of the deepest gorges in the world.
- [Mount Olympus and the Vale of Tempe](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-olympus/index.md): From Thessaloniki to the sacred city of Dion, up the mountain of the gods to Prionia, then past Platamonas castle to the Vale of Tempe.
- [Halkidiki: Kassandra, Sithonia and the Athos coast](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-halkidiki/index.md): Three fingers of pine forest and clear water, from the cliff village of Afytos round Sithonia to the tower of Ouranoupoli.
- [Crete: Chania to Knossos](https://camping-spirit.com/guides/b7-crete-west/index.md): Overnight ferry from Piraeus to Chania, the lagoons of Balos and Elafonisi, the Samaria Gorge, Venetian Rethymno and the Minoan palace of Knossos.

## Destination guides
- [Route 66](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/route-66/index.md): The 1926 highway from Chicago to Santa Monica. It was officially decommissioned in 1985 and kept alive by the towns along it.
- [Pacific Coast Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/pacific-coast-highway/index.md): California State Route 1 runs along the ocean for much of its length. The Big Sur stretch is one of the most dramatic coast drives anywhere.
- [Blue Ridge Parkway](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/blue-ridge-parkway/index.md): A national parkway along the crest of the Appalachians, joining Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks.
- [Beartooth Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/beartooth-highway/index.md): A high switchback road over the Beartooth Plateau between Red Lodge, Montana, and Yellowstone's northeast entrance.
- [Overseas Highway](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/overseas-highway/index.md): US-1 runs down the Florida Keys on a chain of bridges built partly on the bed of Henry Flagler's railroad.
- [Zion National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/zion/index.md): Red and cream sandstone cliffs above the Virgin River. It is Utah's most visited park.
- [Yellowstone National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/yellowstone/index.md): The world's first national park, with more than half of the planet's active geysers.
- [Grand Canyon National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/grand-canyon/index.md): A canyon 277 river miles long, cut by the Colorado River through almost two billion years of rock.
- [Acadia National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/acadia/index.md): Granite mountains, cobble beaches and 45 miles of historic carriage roads on Mount Desert Island.
- [Great Smoky Mountains National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/great-smoky-mountains/index.md): Old-growth forest, remains of mountain farms and one of the most varied collections of plants and animals in any temperate park.
- [Arches National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/arches/index.md): The highest concentration of natural stone arches in the world, a few minutes from Moab.
- [Glacier National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/glacier/index.md): Jagged peaks, turquoise lakes and glaciers that are shrinking, along the Continental Divide in northern Montana.
- [Joshua Tree National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/joshua-tree/index.md): Rock-climbing boulders and forests of spiky Joshua trees where two deserts meet.
- [The Dolomites](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/dolomites/index.md): Pale limestone peaks, high passes and green meadows in northeast Italy. One of the best mountain drives in Europe.
- [The Amalfi Coast](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/amalfi-coast/index.md): A cliff road between Sorrento and Salerno, lined with lemon groves and villages stacked above the sea.
- [Route des Grandes Alpes](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/route-des-grandes-alpes/index.md): The classic crossing of the French Alps, from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean over more than fifteen passes.
- [Norway’s fjords & Atlantic Road](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/norway-atlantic-road/index.md): Deep fjords, mountain roads and a string of bridges across the sea on Norway’s west coast.
- [North Coast 500](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/north-coast-500/index.md): A loop around the far north of Scotland, with white beaches, sea stacks and mostly empty roads.
- [Plitvice Lakes National Park](https://camping-spirit.com/destinations/plitvice-lakes/index.md): Sixteen lakes in shades of blue and green, stepping down through the forest in waterfalls.

## Magazine
- [The three-hour rule: how to pace a long drive](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/three-hour-rule/index.md): Short sessions behind the wheel, planned breaks and one good stop a day.
- [A field guide to muffler men and other fiberglass giants](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/muffler-men/index.md): How a 1960s advertising fad left 20-foot figures standing in towns across the country.
- [How elevation decides fall color in the Appalachians](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/fall-by-elevation/index.md): Color moves down the mountains, not only south, and you can plan around that.
- [Your first night boondocking: a practical checklist](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/first-boondock/index.md): How to camp without hookups or neighbors, and without anything going wrong.
- [What goes in a car emergency kit, and what is just clutter](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/emergency-kit/index.md): A short list of the things that actually help when something goes wrong.
- [Timed-entry permits at national parks: how they work](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/timed-entry/index.md): Reservation systems keep changing. Here is how to plan around them.
- [Neon, tailfins and motor courts: the architecture of Route 66](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/route-66-architecture/index.md): How roadside buildings were designed to be read from a moving car.
- [Road trips with dogs: stops, heat and hotel rules](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/driving-with-dogs/index.md): How to plan the drive so your dog enjoys it too.
- [How to estimate fuel costs before you leave](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/fuel-costs/index.md): A three-number formula and how to use it in the planner.
- [RV height and weight: avoiding low bridges and weak roads](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/rv-clearance/index.md): Measure your rig properly and plan around restrictions.
- [Dark-sky parks worth staying up late for](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/dark-sky/index.md): Places where you can still see the Milky Way from the parking lot.
- [Offline maps and dead zones: navigating without signal](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/offline-maps/index.md): How to prepare for the stretches of road where your phone loses signal.
- [ZTL, Crit’Air and Umweltzonen: driving into European cities](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/eu-city-zones/index.md): How to avoid fines when your route passes through a historic centre.
- [Aree di sosta, aires and Stellplätze: a night in a motorhome in Europe](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/eu-stopovers/index.md): Europe’s network of motorhome stopovers, and how to use it well.
- [Vignettes and tolls: a country-by-country primer](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/eu-tolls/index.md): Who charges by the kilometre, who wants a vignette, and what changes above 3.5 tonnes.
- [Off-season camping in southern Europe](https://camping-spirit.com/magazine/eu-offseason/index.md): Warm days, empty beaches and lower prices from October to April.

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