John Harding, right, and friend James Gingell recorded a three-day trek across Dartmoor The Supreme Court has ruled people have the legal right to wild camp on Dartmoor. The ruling, which is likely to ...

2025 is the year we put wild camping firmly on the map. Through our We Wild Camp campaign, the BMC are calling for a definitive moment in the political spotlight - one that raises the profile of wild ...

The UK Supreme Court allows wild camping on Dartmoor. This reverses a High Court decision favouring landowner Alexander Darwall. The ruling is based on the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985. It defines wild ...

Wild camping on Dartmoor is completely free of charge and allows people to reconnect with nature I HAVE wild camped on Dartmoor more times than I can count and the fact that this right was even ...

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Sam Wollaston gets to grip with his tent – and the great outdoors – at Great Mis Tor in Dartmoor, Devon.Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian ...

Until recently, the most dramatic news coming from Dartmoor National Park, the 368-mile windswept jumble of jagged tors in south Devon, revolved around sporadic sightings of the ‘enormous, coal-black ...

Pitching a tent far from civilisation, where the only sounds come from the birds and the whistling of the wind through the trees, makes for a restorative break for anyone who enjoys spending time in ...

All Land Rovers have their own character, according to David Cook, who rents these highly capable vehicles to campers who want to see the wilder side of north-east England. The one he had entrusted to ...

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” So said the American humorist Dave Barry in his skit about ...