“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 ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There’s no denying wild camping takes a lot of work. The buy-in costs are steep, too, if you can’t borrow (or rent) your gear — tent, ...

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 ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. When the owners of the 4,000-acre Blachford estate in Dartmoor, a vast moorland in south-west England, recently won ...

Even though much of Europe is off-limits to wild campers, there are pockets of solitude where you’ll find magnificent landscapes as well as open-minded attitudes to pitching a tent. Here are seven ...