"Free Camping" guides

Hi John
We've got a copy of camps Australia wide and bush camping with dogs
we use them to plan our trips (if your never been you don't know what there)
most of the info is good but we had problems finding some at times,
Much easier with the books and GPS waypoints
camps Au Wide

thats been my job today planing this years trip north to south through the Western desert

Regards

Richard

Hi john,

We've got the Camps2 book and I've just ordered the updated Camps3 along with the camps snaps. So far I've found them very helpful, it's the first book I reach for when finding places to camp at.

cheers

Lyn

Hi John

Received the "Camps 3" book on Wednesday, and am pretty pleased with it. Its got the current Hema Road Atlas in it (and my Hema Atlas is getting a bit long in the tooth) so that's bonus no 1.

Next, it seems to have all the roadside rest areas marked - hopefully it wil reduce the incidence of pulling up in some unsuitable spot for lunch and finding ten minutes down the road there was a beauty. Bonus No 2.

Seems easy to use - either starting at the map, the index or the campsite listing. Useful for diferent stages of the planning /travel cycle. Flexibility is bonmus no 3.

But mainly - it seesm to give a perspective on cheaper caravan parks vs camping areas that you don't get from the NRMA / RACx guide any more. I haven't had one of these books since they were just better than a typewritten list, and am mighty impressed at the quality of research.

Am looking forward to see how that all works in practice.
Max

The one thing I hate about this web site is all the great information that everyone is willing to share and is costing me $$$.

After reading this thread I too have bought Camps 3.

Hi. I have also just bought the Camps 3 Australia wide. It looks great. Good information and maps.
Regards lenni

John,
you could also chck out link text, they have a downloadable copy of campsites around Australia.

Mostly WA, but there are some other spots avaiable, from memory.
I haven't looked at it for a while now.

Hope this helps

Dave

I think your question was about those 'free camping' guides that there is a book for each state. we did buy the first edition of the SA and VIC ones and in some places we found them good but other places sound great in the book and when you finally get there it's pretty bad. Yesturday we saw the book that everyone is talking about here and we now are buying that one and retiring the others, the information is heaps better in the new one. so rounding up you would end up saving money by buying the new book out and having the maps etc all in one. good luck with it all.