Hi All. We are of to sunny Scotland soon... Loch Ness we live in derbys. been years ago..i need to pick your brains.we are wanting a stop over point. as we intend to travel overnight. we have 2 dogs and want to be able to rest in a safe place. service stations i thought charge a fee if you stay longer than a hour ? ? looking for any ideas please don't want to get towed away while asleep !!!!!! thanks Mel
The site Lettershaws Farm(mentioned abve) is the nearest halfway point on your journey.
I enjoy wildcamping and doing overnight stopovers in apropriate laybyes etc, but I would caution you against doing this on roads like the M74 etc.
These "wild" stopovers are fine on quiet country roads up highland glens or at viewpoints, but unless you are prepared to pay for a quite spot at a Service Station I most seriously suggest that you look for a proper campsite, close to the motorway but far enough away to avoid the traffic noise. Lettershaws is a good site that we often use.
Hi, service stations stay is i think used to be 3hours max,now down to 2hours before charges apply,take travelling alarm,and set for 1 hour 45min from time of arrival,give you chance to get away before the vultures can eye you up for ticket,not to sure about laybye over night parking south of Gretna,think you can if grass verge between road and laybye, there are a few caravaners on here that do wild caravaning,they are the best ones to give you some pointers,they should be along shortly. hope this is of some help.
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On our to to Oban last year we used the ruck stop at Lockerbie, which was fine and only had a couple of lorries using it. Had a great Scottish breakfast in the cafe in the morning. I rang them first to see if it was alright to use it and they said yes as it was a Friday night and not many lorries would be using it. Think we paid £14 but nobody asked for it, we were honest to say in the cafe in the morning that we had stayed the night.
I am afraid I only look for possible wildcamping/overnight spots in quiet places.
Laybyes etc near motorways tend to be noisy places as truckers have very strange bed times and can be driving in and out all night. When you are driving 400 miles and need a decent nights sleep, noise is the last thing you need.
I personally would not wildcamp near any proper campsite. I do not feel that this is fair to the campsite owners. The places I choose to wildcamp have no proper campsites with 10 miles and therefore I can feel justified in choosing to camp where I do.
Driving on todays main roads can be a stressfull exercise and I would have thought that the drivers wellbeing should be a top priority in making sure that his overnight comfort was as peaceful as possible.
Hi GT60, ye thats the one on the bend with the railway viaduct above.pity its closed that would have been very good one for tilly47. it is so long since i traveled the old 74 to Carlisle that i cant remember any laybyes on it, should be a few truckers on here that could help,there is always the Moffat site,think it was around £18 the time i stayed there.
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we use moffat it is only 2 minutes off the motorway and back on again.we have also stopped at moffat many times and love the village.good fishing if required just behind the site.good pubs,good chippy.staff are brilliant. CCClub site.
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JUST BACK FROM SCOTLAND ,we stopped off in moffat for a few days ,seen quite a few units stopping for one night.hope you have stocked up with midgie creams
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