A caravanning or camping holiday in Wales is a great choice for families. Get close to nature, with space to relax and play. Discover the freedom and flexibility that camping offers. Some campsites are dog-friendly too, so you can even bring your four-legged friend.

Family camping in Wales

Family campsites in North Wales

Llyn Gwynant Campsite, Caernarfon

Unzip your tent in the morning and be greeted by an array of birds and wildlife which make the peaceful Llyn Gwynant their home. Ideal for nature lovers, Llyn Gwynant Campsite is one of the best family campsites in North Wales. Nestled within the majestic Eryri National Park it has direct access to some of its most breathtaking walks.

Getting out onto the water at Llyn Gwynant Campsite couldn't be easier, campers can simply hire a boat on the day - choose from kayaks, Canadian canoes or stand-up paddleboards. To round off your day of outdoor activities, toast a marshmallow on your own campfire and just look up to enjoy the wonderful dark skies that this area has to offer.

Facilities include:

  • boat hire
  • Dark Skies location
  • food outlet selling pizza and other evening meals
  • a licensed bar
  • campsite shop selling firewood
  • large enclosed area with stainless steel tables for cooking, two microwave ovens, an instant water boiler and washing up sinks with hot water. Plus, small chest freezers (for freezer packs only).
  • a laundry room (fees apply)
  • pets welcome

Accessibility features:

  • level entry toilet with baby changing table and a level entry shower

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Glamping at the Slate Caverns, Blaenau Ffestiniog

Blaenau Ffestiniog is a fascinating place: it’s a little enclave within the Eryri National Park where centuries of slate mining has created a moonscape in the mountains. The locals have enterprisingly turned this to their advantage: it’s now the adventure sport capital of Wales. The six luxury safari lodges in Llechwedd Glamping are considered one of the best family campsites in Eryri. Well equipped extra insulated tents, they are suitable for four or five people with a double bed and three singles.

A stay here puts you right in the heart of the action, with Zip World Llechwedd (home to Bounce Below) and Antur Stiniog Mountain Bike Centre on the doorstep, plus the mountain kingdoms of Eryri all around. Nearby are Zip World Penrhyn Quarry (home to Velocity 2 and Quarry Karts) (45 min drive) and Zip World Betws-y-Coed (20 min drive).

Drone shot of the exterior of Llechwedd Glamping Tents at Plas Weunydd on the side of the mountain

Llechwedd Glamping Pods

Accommodation
Blaenau Ffestiniog
One of the ex-military vehicles

Quarry Tours Ltd, Llechwedd Slate Caverns

Attraction
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Velocity, the world's fastest zip line

Zip World Velocity

Activity
Bethesda
Antur Stiniog Mountain Bike Centre

Antur Stiniog Mountain Bike Centre

Activity
Blaenau Ffestiniog

Features and amenities include:

  • bedding and towels provided
  • private BBQ
  • en-suite with a power shower
  • kitchenette with microwave oven, fridge freezer and sink
  • wood-burning stove
  • free Wi-Fi
  • dogs welcome

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Aerial view of a small cluster of glamping cabins set in a mountainous quarry landscape, with winding roads and hills in the background.
Wood‑panelled glamping cabin dining area with a table, bench seating, and doors opening onto a deck with views of the surrounding landscape.
People bouncing on underground trampolines.

Llechwedd Glamping, Blaenau Ffestiniog, and Bounce Below, Zip World Llechwedd, North Wales

 

 

Tyddyn Isaf, Anglesey

There are some great family campsites on Ynys Môn (Anglesey). Set on Ynys Môn’s northeast coast, Tyddyn Isaf Caravan Park is a family‑run, family‑friendly site that deservedly won the AA Wales Campsite of the Year a few years back. A footpath leads down to Lligwy beach, and a large adventure playground makes it a strong choice for families, with a shop and small takeaway available during high season.

Features and amenities include:

  • platinum award-winning amenity blocks
  • business centre
  • laundrette
  • fully equipped gym
  • baby changing stations and a portable baby bath
  • Dogs welcome (if kept on a short lead and cleared up after)
  • EV Charging Points

Accessible facilities include:

  • ramped access and no steps to all toilet blocks and all pitches are within 200m of the nearest toilet and shower block, with many pitches being far closer
  • large family shower / wet rooms, a DOC-M compliant shower / toilet with grab rails and shower seat
  • baby changing facilities

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Campsite with tents and caravans pitched in fields, separated by hedges. The sea can be seen in the distance.
Campsite from above. Tents and caravans in fields near the coast . The sea can be seen in the distance

Tyddyn Isaf Camping and Caravan Park, Ynys Môn, North Wales

Plassey Holiday Park, Wrexham

A former dairy farm in the Dee Valley is the setting for this multi-award winning, five-star leisure park for touring caravans, motorhomes and tents. Plassey Holiday Park is one of the best family holiday parks in North Wales offering special activity days for kids, an entire Welsh castle-themed adventure play park to explore, and if you're looking to find a campsite in Wales with a swimming pool, it has that option too. And if that's not enough, it even has its own brewery!

Features and amenities include:

  • heated indoor pool
  • golf course
  • cycle paths, nature trails and fishing
  • craft and retail centre
  • retail, hair and beauty outlets
  • coffee shop and restaurant
  • accessible toilets
  • dogs welcome

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Mid Wales camping sites

fforest, Cardigan

The people at fforest have been quietly creating something utterly magical over the past decade. They operate family ventures in three locations around Aberteifi (Cardigan), with a range of glamping domes, shacks, bell-tents and log cabins at fforest Farm and their smaller coastal site. Every August they hold week-long gatherings – fforest Gather – that bring together the best of fforest’s unique ethos for a family holiday. It's full of creative engagement, inviting you to have a fantastic feast.

Features and amenities include:

  • 500-acre natural environment, with wildlife reserve
  • vegetable garden
  • Y Bwthyn pub
  • cedar barrel sauna
  • dogs welcome

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Quay West, Ceredigion

If you're looking for caravan sites in Wales near a beach, Quay West Holiday Park is a great option. It is situated on the cliffs above the gorgeous harbour town of Cei Newydd (New Quay), the dolphin-spotting capital of Wales. The all-action Quay West is one of the best campsites with on-site entertainment in Wales.

Features and amenities include:

  • beach access
  • archery, fencing, crazy golf, aerial adventure and pool kayaking activities
  • a woodland nature walk
  • indoor and outdoor pools
  • restaurant and venues selling takeaway food
  • a mini market
  • dogs welcome
  • accessibility facilities include wheelchair hire
Two dolphins swimming.

Cei Newydd: the dolphin-spotting capital of Wales, Ceredigion, Mid Wales

Meadow Springs Country & Leisure Park, Powys

Meadow Springs Country & Leisure Park near Caersws is a recently established, five-star site in the middle of the idyllic Mid Wales countryside. Within the site's 300 acres, you'll find luxury lodges and well-equipped touring pitches to stay in. There's loads to do on the tranquil site and in the local area.

Features and amenities include:

  • Watersports lakes
  • Outdoor games including badminton, pitch and putt and crazy golf
  • Nature walks
  • Dog walking and swimming areas
  • Adventure playground and football pitch
  • Accessible and family friendly toilets and shower rooms
  • Winner of the Best Caravan, Camping, Glamping award at the National Tourism Awards for Wales '25

West Wales camping sites

Three Cliffs Bay, Gower

You’ll wake up to arguably the best view of any campsite in Britain here: Three Cliffs Holiday Park occupies a glorious hilltop location overlooking the iconic Three Cliffs Bay.

Three Cliffs Bay Caravan Site

Three Cliffs Caravan Site

Accommodation
Swansea
Three Cliffs Bay

Three Cliffs Bay Beach

Attraction
Swansea

The attractions of nearby Gŵyr, (Gower), Y Mwmbwls (Mumbles), and Abertawe (Swansea) are on the doorstep of this small site of 10 premium touring pitches, available for caravans, motorhomes and tents. They also offer glamping and barn conversions for let.

Features and amenities include:

  • cliff-top location
  • private path to the beach
  • each touring pit includes a fire pit, picnic table, electric hook-up point and water point as standard
  • dog-friendly
family sat on cliff over looking the sea with camp fire.
two teenage girls and boy playing football on sandy beach.

Three Cliffs Holiday Park and Three Cliffs Bay, Gŵyr, West Wales

Caerfai Farm, St Davids

Camping, cottages, and yurts, set on a clifftop offering stunning views right across Bae Sain Ffraid (St Brides Bay) to the south, with direct access to the Wales Coast Path. Not enough? The tiny cathedral city of Tyddewi (St Davids) is a short walk away, and so is the stunning little port of Porthclais. You want even more? Caerfai Farm is an organic farm and they make their own cheese. There. That settles it.

Features and amenities include:

  • freezer packs can be rented
  • dogs welcome (except in the cottages)
  • laundry facilities
  • farm shop
A small sandy cove with turquoise sea, rocky cliffs and a few people walking along the shoreline, viewed from green coastal foliage above.

The sheltered cove of Caerfai Beach, near Tyddewi, West Wales

Trellyn Woodland Camping, Abercastle

Looking for family camping in Pembrokeshire? This patch of Pembrokeshire heaven keeps itself deliberately small and beautiful, Trellyn Woodland Camping has just six pitches, three yurts and two domes. Small but oh so perfectly formed!

Features and amenities include:

  • a wood-fired sauna and pizza oven
  • free use of wetsuits and surfboards to use at the nearby beach
  • your own covered campfire with free firewood
  • within easy reach of more than 10 beaches in part of the most beautiful part of Pembrokeshire
Overhead view of a woodland campsite with yurts and tents.
Inside a round-doored yurt with wooden floors, a cosy sofa and a stove.

Trellyn Woodland Camping, Abercastell (Abercastle), Pembrokeshire, West Wales

Sites for family camping in South Wales

Penhein Glamping, Monmouthshire

It’s the sense of rural seclusion that makes Penhein Glamping so magical. Another one of the best family campsites in Wales. Their Persian-inspired glamping tents are tucked away in secluded woodland surrounded by endless countryside – perfect for paddling and Poohsticks. The farming family who run it put on plenty of family events like den-building and campfire cooking, and there’s the glorious Wye Valley and Monmouthshire hills to explore.

Features and amenities include:

  • beautiful custom-made Persian tents
  • well-equipped kitchen with running water, elegant interiors, own toilets, wood-burning stove and proper beds
  • hot showers and boutique bathing
  • shared drying room, a luxurious shower block with monsoon showers and a Victorian roll-top bath
  • three of the tents have their own showers immediately outside
  • Dark Skies location

Read more: Must do in the Wye Valley and Vale of Usk.

Young children building a shelter from wood.
Penhein ‘alachigh’ tent nestled woodland.

Enjoying the outdoors and an alachigh tent at Penhein Glamping, South Wales

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There are lots of other brilliant accommodation options for families in Wales, including family friendly hotels, caravan parks and holiday parks.

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