A family site on the edge of a lake in the Forest of Dean. Pitches for tents and caravans, camping pods and heated safari tents. Four miles from Coleford, and all you can hear is the water and the trees.
Ninety-six pitches, not six hundred. Reception is the two of us, with a couple of students in August, so we know who arrived with a pushchair and who asked for shade.
Our own jetty, a shallow shelving beach and boats to hire. You can walk in barefoot.
No coins and no tokens for the showers. The block was rebuilt in 2023 and is cleaned three times a day.
A playground, somewhere dry for a wet afternoon, and dogs at £4 a night with the run of the site.
Nothing up front for a tent or a caravan. We only take a 30 % deposit on the pods and the safari tents.
From a bare pitch for your own tent to a safari tent with beds and a wood burner. The prices below are per night in the school holidays (18 July – 31 August 2026).
Fields A–C
A level grass pitch about 7 × 7 m with the car beside the tent. The far field sits in the shade of the oaks all day.
Pitches 1–34
A hardstanding 9 × 5 m with its own 16 A hook-up. The chemical disposal point and the water tap are within 80 m.
6 pods
Four beds, a small veranda, a kettle and a fridge. The showers and toilets are in the block, 40 m away.
3 safari tents
A safari tent on a timber deck: a double, two singles, a wood burner, its own shower room and a deck facing the water.
Nobody should have to decode a price list. Put in the dates and how many of you there are, and it works out the pitch, the people, the hook-up and the dog, and shows you every line of it.
The price includes one car on the pitch, hot showers, the camp kitchen, the playground and wood for the communal fire.
Reception to the jetty is 180 metres, and nothing is more than 90 from a shower. What sits where is on the site map.
No twenty-step booking system. Four steps and one email.
Pick what you are staying in and the dates. You see the actual total, not a price “from”.
One button drops the figures into the form; add your name and a number. We answer within 24 hours, usually the same evening in season.
We write back with whether it is free and which pitch. Pods and safari tents need a 30 % deposit by transfer; pitches need nothing.
Arrive between 2pm and 8pm, away by 11am. Reception gives you the barrier fob and a map, and you settle up by card or cash.
There is no lifeguard. The water is shallow for about fifteen metres and the bottom is sand, which is why families come — but swimming is at your own risk and children need somebody with them.
The last half mile of lane is single track. A big motorhome will get down it, but not quickly and not while meeting somebody coming the other way. Arrive in daylight the first time.
It rains here. The pitches drain well and the camp kitchen is under cover, but a week in the Forest of Dean without waterproofs is optimism, not planning.
We answer within 24 hours. An enquiry commits you to nothing and you pay nothing up front — pitches are settled at reception.
The starred boxes are the ones we need.