GOING WILD FOR LAKES & LOCHS
Motorhome
Romahome Duo Hylo
Duration
5 days
When
Spring 2019
Why?
Stunning lake and mountain views, picturesque roads, peace and quiet
There are moments in life you don’t want to end – and being beside Loch Achray in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, wild camping, was one of them.
I was sitting outdoors in the darkness on one of those velvet nights, watching the western light fade, the shapes of the hills and the point of Ben Venue backlit by a ribbon of fluorescent orange.
The rough shadows of trees and distant car lights flickered in the reflections of Loch Achray. I could hear only the sound of ducks making home for the night and the wingbeats from passing geese looking for somewhere, anywhere. Then silence in the calm and the dark. I was alone.
Created in 2002, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, at 720 square miles, affords the largest body of lake/loch in the UK, together with many other large lochs, two forest parks (Queen Elizabeth and Argyll) and a host of mountains and rolling lowland.
Wild camping here is as much a part of the national park as Loch Lomond itself is.
To curb antisocial habits, the National Park Authority introduced a management system in 2018, whereby parts of the park, in particular areas around Loch Lomond and within Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, are within a Camping Management Zone. This means that
