For Activity Centre opening times please click here. 

glamping pod | free showers | onsite watersports | fishing tuition | play area | off-road cycling and walking trails | café | dog friendly

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• The Campsite
• Camping Pod
• Tamar Lake Cafe
• The Local Area
• Prices and Season Dates
• Site Map
• Directions

Enjoy a family friendly camping holiday at Tamar Lakes on the Devon and Cornwall border. Experience sleeping under canvas or glamp in our wooden pod. Tamar Lakes offers a unique outdoors camping holiday near the Cornish coastal town of Bude. 

There’s plenty of things to fill your holiday with fun and adventure! Hire our watersports equipment or launch your own when the Activity Centre is open (usually May to September). Explore the lake by foot or bike or take to the water on a canoe, paddleboard, kayak or sail boat. Enjoy a camping holiday in Cornwall packed with fun and lifelong memories. Let your children’s imagination run wild, collect leaves, find bugs, go on a nature hunt and let them loose in our new play area. 

Ditch the iPads and experience a real life adventure, explore our two lakes, walk through woodlands, build a den, skim stones, catch a fish or climb a tree. Walk, run or cycle across the Cornwall and Devon border and see if you can spot herons, dragonflies, kingfishers or even an otter. It's your outdoors - come and explore!

 

The Campsite 

The site benefits from spacious pitches, a children’s play area, onsite showers and toilets, washing up area, baby changing room, waste disposal and recycling facilities as well as on site watersports, fishing and a cafe. 

There’s a choice of electric and non-electric pitches for tents, caravans and motorhomes. Please note, we cannot accept motorhomes larger than 20ft due to access to the campsite.

Pitches: 13 + 1 glamping pod 
Hard Standings: 1
Grass: 7
Grass with Electrical Hook-Ups: 5 pitches
Distance from showers (paces): 170
Onsite Glamping Pod

Departures: 11:00
Arrivals: 14:00

Download our campsite map here

Camping Pod

'Lily' is our basic 4 berth camping pod, perfect for families not wanting to travel with large amounts of camping gear. Provided is: 2 bunk beds, a table and chairs, cutlery. There is a solar powered light and USB charging port, but no other electricity supply.

Sorry, we do not allow dogs inside the pod

 

Tamar Lake Cafe

Pop into the Tamar Lake Cafe (TLC) for some fresh home cooked food and cakes, coffee and artisan teas. Find out more and see the cafe's opening times here. 

The Local Area

Enjoy a day trip out and visit the popular Cornish coastal town of Bude. Stock up on food and drink, explore the beaches and outdoor sea pool or enjoy a walk on the South West Coastal Path. Go back in time and visit the historic Cornish villages of Clovelly or Boscastle or venture further. Under an hour’s drive from the lake are Wadebridge, Dartmoor National Park and the ever popular Cornish beach town of Newquay.

2026 Season Dates

2026 Low Season	2026 High Season
2 - 3 April  20 April - 21 May  1 - 30 June  1 - 30 September	3-19 April 22 - 31 May  1 July - 31 August
Price (includes 2 adults)	Price (includes 2 adults)
Grass: £23.00 Grass electric: £28.00 Hard standing with electric: £28.00 Pod: £39.00	Grass: £28.00 Grass electric: £36.00 Hard standing with electric: £39.00 Pod: £55.00

Extras:

• Extra adult - £7.50 per person / per night
• Extra child - £3.00 per person / per night
• Dogs free
• Babies up to 24 months free

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Directions

For further information call 01288 321712 // [email protected]

Near Bude, Cornwall, EX23 9SB

Coach stations:
Bude: Strand Coach Stop — 8.7 miles
Bideford: Quay Coach Stop — 17.6 miles
Westward Ho!: Nelson Rd Coach Stop — 17.2 miles
Train stations:
Chapelton (Devon) Rail Station — 25.4 miles
Barnstaple Rail Station — 25.5 miles
Umberleigh Rail Station — 25.8 miles
Ferry ports:
Bideford Ferry Landing — 17.6 miles
Appledore Ferry Landing — 18.9 miles
Instow Ferry Landing — 19.5 miles