Caravan club sites in Norfolk

Norfolk is the easiest county in England to tow in. There is nothing that could reasonably be called a hill, the roads are wide by rural standards, and a heavy outfit will return better fuel economy here than almost anywhere else in the country. The compensation for the flatness is 90 miles of coast, world-class birding and 125 miles of navigable water on the Broads.

Where the sites are

Three clusters. The north coast between Hunstanton, Wells-next-the-Sea and Cromer is the most sought after, close to Holkham, Blakeney Point and the salt marshes. The Broads group sits inland around Ludham, Horning and Great Yarmouth, handy for day boats. A third scatter runs along the Suffolk border near Thetford Forest, which is quieter and cheaper.

Getting there

The A11 from Cambridge to Norwich is dual carriageway throughout and the fastest way in. The A47 from Peterborough through King's Lynn to Norwich mixes dual and single carriageway with several long single-lane stretches; it works, but it crawls behind agricultural traffic in autumn. From the north, the A17 across the Fens is flat, straight and dull.

Local notes

The A149 coast road is the one to plan around. Between Hunstanton and Cromer it narrows severely through Burnham Market, Wells, Cley and Blakeney, with parked cars on both sides and buses coming the other way. It is entirely doable with a caravan and thoroughly unpleasant between 10am and 5pm in August. Move early, or approach your site from the inland B roads.

The car parks at Wells and Holkham are not built for outfits, and neither is the Great Yarmouth seafront. Leave the van on the pitch.

The season runs from late March into early November. The north coast books solid for August and for the October half term, when the grey seals start pupping at Blakeney Point. May and September are the value months, with the autumn bird migration at its best in early September.