Caravan club sites in Somerset

Somerset works well as a stopover and as a destination in its own right. The M5 runs down the middle of it, so sites here are among the easiest in the South West to reach, and Exmoor, the Mendips and the Quantocks give three quite different sorts of walking within an hour of each other.

Where the sites are

The Exmoor and Minehead corner is the largest cluster, with sites around Porlock, Dunster and Watchet. The Mendips form a second group near Cheddar, Wells and Priddy, handy for Bath and Bristol as well. A third scatter sits around Glastonbury, Street and the Levels — flat, quiet and cheap — and there are useful overnight options near Taunton and Bridgwater for anyone breaking a longer run south.

Getting there

The M5 does almost all the work, with Junction 23 for the Levels, Junction 24 for Taunton and Junction 25 for the Quantocks. The A39 from Bridgwater to Minehead is single carriageway and slow but presents no difficulty. The A303 crosses the eastern end of the county and remains single carriageway past Stonehenge after the tunnel scheme was cancelled in 2024, so eastbound Saturday afternoons are worth avoiding.

Local notes

Porlock Hill on the A39 is the one everyone asks about. It is 1 in 4, the steepest A-road in England, with hairpins near the top and a long descent on the far side. The Porlock Toll Road, signed off to the left as you leave the village, climbs the same height at around 1 in 14 through woodland. Pay the few pounds and use it. The inland route via the A396 and Wheddon Cross is also gentler than the A39.

Cheddar Gorge on the B3135 is spectacular and completely wrong for a caravan — narrow, walled, with coaches and climbers' cars parked on both sides. Approach Cheddar from Axbridge on the A371 instead.

The season runs late March to the end of October, with Glastonbury Festival week in late June filling every pitch for thirty miles around.