Caravan Parks In Roxburgh | MOTORHOMEingLife

Very much so, and it is one of Scotland’s most underrated touring areas. Roxburgh, the old county in the eastern Borders around Jedburgh, Kelso and Hawick, offers easy main roads, short distances between attractions and a fraction of the crowds you meet in the Highlands. The landscape is gentle river valleys, historic market towns, ruined abbeys and grand castles, all within half an hour of each other. For anyone who wants a relaxing tour without long, demanding drives or single-track roads, it is close to ideal. It also makes a natural first or last stop on a longer Scottish trip, being right on the border with England via the A68 over Carter Bar.

Yes, the touring parks across Roxburgh offer electric hook-up on their pitches. Lilliardsedge Holiday Park near Jedburgh provides a 16-amp electric hook-up on each of its hardstanding and fully serviced pitches, and Riverside Caravan Park near Hawick has electric and TV points on all 61 of its pitches, with fully serviced hardstandings available too. The Jedburgh Camping & Caravanning Club Site offers electric hook-up on most of its grass and hardstanding pitches. Fully serviced pitches, which add water and drainage right at the pitch, are available at several sites for a little more, and worth it if you like the convenience. Confirm the amperage when you book if you run high-draw appliances.

Jedburgh is a great base and has two good options. Lilliardsedge Holiday Park and Golf Course sits between Jedburgh and St Boswells, with 38 hardstanding and fully serviced pitches each on a 16-amp electric hook-up, plus its own nine-hole golf course, set within 110 acres and open year-round. In the town itself, the Jedburgh Camping & Caravanning Club Site is a well-kept, keenly priced site with grass and hardstanding pitches, most with electric hook-up, and easy walking access to Jedburgh Abbey and the shops. Both put you close to the A68, so you can reach Kelso, Melrose and the whole eastern Borders on short, easy day trips.

Yes. Near Hawick, Riverside Caravan Park is a pleasant touring site with 61 pitches beside the water, including 12 fully serviced hardstandings and 15 further hardstanding pitches, all with electric and TV points and free wifi, which makes it a comfortable base for the textile town and the Teviot valley. Kelso, where the Teviot meets the Tweed, sits close to Floors Castle and has camping options in and around the town, and it is only about twenty minutes from the Jedburgh parks, so you can easily reach it from a base there. The whole region is so compact that a single well-chosen park covers all of it.

Easily. This is not the Highlands. The main routes, the A68 over Carter Bar, the A698 to Kelso, the A7 through Hawick and the A6091 by Melrose, are all proper A-roads that carry any caravan or motorhome without difficulty. Even the minor roads into the Cheviot foothills and down Liddesdale, while narrower, are a world away from the single-track west coast and present no real challenge to a careful driver. The one thing to watch is winter weather on Carter Bar, which sits high and exposed and can close in snow and high wind, so check conditions before crossing in the cold months. Otherwise, touring here is genuinely stress-free.

No, the Scottish Borders do not have a designated national park, unlike the Cairngorms or Loch Lomond and the Trossachs further north. What you do get is excellent public access to the countryside under Scotland’s access laws, with long-distance footpaths like the Borders Abbeys Way, St Cuthbert’s Way and the Southern Upland Way, plus open hill roads, forest tracks and country parks. So while there is no national park designation, the region offers the same easy public walking and quiet country touring that draws people to the parks, alongside the private holiday parks and caravan parks. For most tourers the practical experience is very similar, with the bonus of far fewer crowds.

For peak summer weekends and around the Borders’ big events, such as the common ridings through June and July and the Melrose and Jedforest rugby sevens, booking ahead is wise because the towns and parks get busy. Outside those times, and especially midweek, you can often turn up and find a pitch, as the Borders are far less pressured than the Highlands. In spring and autumn the parks are rarely full and you have plenty of flexibility. That said, several sites close for the winter, so if you are travelling off-season it always pays to phone ahead and confirm the park is open before you set off.

A lot, packed into a small area. Jedburgh Abbey is one of the great ruined Border abbeys in dramatic red sandstone, and Kelso, Melrose and Dryburgh have their own. Floors Castle at Kelso is Scotland’s largest inhabited castle, and south of Hawick, Hermitage Castle broods over the wild moorland of Liddesdale. Hawick itself is a textile town with knitwear mills and factory shops. Walkers have the Borders Abbeys Way and St Cuthbert’s Way, anglers have the Tweed, one of the world’s finest salmon rivers, and there is golf at Lilliardsedge and elsewhere. Add the common ridings and the rugby, and you can fill a week without repeating yourself.

May through September gives the warmest, driest weather, and the Borders are drier than the Scottish west coast, so summer touring is reliable. Our personal favourite, though, is early autumn, when the colour comes to the Teviot and Tweed valleys, the mornings turn crisp and bright, the salmon fishing peaks and the parks empty out after the school holidays. Spring is lovely too, with green valleys and lambing in the fields. Winter is quieter still and milder than the Highlands, though several parks close and Carter Bar can see snow. For the best balance of weather, events and space, aim for late spring or September.

Propane and gas exchange are available in the main towns, Hawick, Kelso and Jedburgh all have suppliers, and fuel is easy to find along the A68 and A7, so you are never far from a top-up in this well-served region. For emptying tanks, the touring parks provide a chemical disposal point for the toilet and a grey water drain for guests, and most have fresh water on the pitch or at a service point. Because the parks are close together and the towns well supplied, planning your disposal and resupply stops here is far simpler than in the remote Highlands. Just use your park’s service point before you move on.

Most caravan parks in Roxburgh welcome dogs, and the region suits them well with its miles of riverside and hill walking. Parks typically ask that dogs are kept on a lead around the pitches and facilities and that you clear up after them, and some limit the number per pitch, so check when you book. The Borders Abbeys Way and the riverside paths along the Teviot and Tweed make excellent, mostly flat walks, and there are quiet country lanes for a gentler stretch. In spring, keep dogs firmly under control near the fields, as this is prime sheep and lambing country and farmers rightly take a dim view of loose dogs.

It is a completely different experience, and a welcome one. Where the Highlands give you dramatic mountains, single-track roads, long distances and Atlantic weather, the Borders offer gentle river valleys, easy main roads, short hops between attractions and a drier, milder climate. You trade the raw grandeur for comfort and convenience, and for far fewer crowds. Many tourers combine the two, using the Borders as a relaxed first or last leg of a bigger Scottish trip via the A68. If your ideal tour is history, good food, easy driving and quiet pitches rather than mountain passes, Roxburgh will suit you better than the far north.

Yes, it is one of the better-value corners of Scotland for touring. Sitting off the main tourist trail keeps pitch prices sensible, with a peak-summer electric hook-up pitch around £20 to £32 a night and shoulder-season stays cheaper still, and the parks are rarely full so you are not paying a premium for scarcity. Because the towns and attractions sit so close together, your fuel bill stays low compared with the long Highland runs, which is a real saving. Booking ahead for summer event weekends is worth it, but otherwise you have plenty of flexibility, and a Caravan and Motorhome Club or Camping and Caravanning Club card trims a bit more off affiliated sites.

Very much so, and it is one of Scotland’s most underrated touring areas. Roxburgh, the old county in the eastern Borders around Jedburgh, Kelso and Hawick, offers easy main roads, short distances between attractions and a fraction of the crowds you meet in the Highlands. The landscape is gentle river valleys, historic market towns, ruined abbeys and grand castles, all within half an hour of each other. For anyone who wants a relaxing tour without long, demanding drives or single-track roads, it is close to ideal. It also makes a natural first or last stop on a longer Scottish trip, being right on the border with England via the A68 over Carter Bar.

Yes, the touring parks across Roxburgh offer electric hook-up on their pitches. Lilliardsedge Holiday Park near Jedburgh provides a 16-amp electric hook-up on each of its hardstanding and fully serviced pitches, and Riverside Caravan Park near Hawick has electric and TV points on all 61 of its pitches, with fully serviced hardstandings available too. The Jedburgh Camping & Caravanning Club Site offers electric hook-up on most of its grass and hardstanding pitches. Fully serviced pitches, which add water and drainage right at the pitch, are available at several sites for a little more, and worth it if you like the convenience. Confirm the amperage when you book if you run high-draw appliances.

Jedburgh is a great base and has two good options. Lilliardsedge Holiday Park and Golf Course sits between Jedburgh and St Boswells, with 38 hardstanding and fully serviced pitches each on a 16-amp electric hook-up, plus its own nine-hole golf course, set within 110 acres and open year-round. In the town itself, the Jedburgh Camping & Caravanning Club Site is a well-kept, keenly priced site with grass and hardstanding pitches, most with electric hook-up, and easy walking access to Jedburgh Abbey and the shops. Both put you close to the A68, so you can reach Kelso, Melrose and the whole eastern Borders on short, easy day trips.

Yes. Near Hawick, Riverside Caravan Park is a pleasant touring site with 61 pitches beside the water, including 12 fully serviced hardstandings and 15 further hardstanding pitches, all with electric and TV points and free wifi, which makes it a comfortable base for the textile town and the Teviot valley. Kelso, where the Teviot meets the Tweed, sits close to Floors Castle and has camping options in and around the town, and it is only about twenty minutes from the Jedburgh parks, so you can easily reach it from a base there. The whole region is so compact that a single well-chosen park covers all of it.

Easily. This is not the Highlands. The main routes, the A68 over Carter Bar, the A698 to Kelso, the A7 through Hawick and the A6091 by Melrose, are all proper A-roads that carry any caravan or motorhome without difficulty. Even the minor roads into the Cheviot foothills and down Liddesdale, while narrower, are a world away from the single-track west coast and present no real challenge to a careful driver. The one thing to watch is winter weather on Carter Bar, which sits high and exposed and can close in snow and high wind, so check conditions before crossing in the cold months. Otherwise, touring here is genuinely stress-free.

No, the Scottish Borders do not have a designated national park, unlike the Cairngorms or Loch Lomond and the Trossachs further north. What you do get is excellent public access to the countryside under Scotland’s access laws, with long-distance footpaths like the Borders Abbeys Way, St Cuthbert’s Way and the Southern Upland Way, plus open hill roads, forest tracks and country parks. So while there is no national park designation, the region offers the same easy public walking and quiet country touring that draws people to the parks, alongside the private holiday parks and caravan parks. For most tourers the practical experience is very similar, with the bonus of far fewer crowds.

For peak summer weekends and around the Borders’ big events, such as the common ridings through June and July and the Melrose and Jedforest rugby sevens, booking ahead is wise because the towns and parks get busy. Outside those times, and especially midweek, you can often turn up and find a pitch, as the Borders are far less pressured than the Highlands. In spring and autumn the parks are rarely full and you have plenty of flexibility. That said, several sites close for the winter, so if you are travelling off-season it always pays to phone ahead and confirm the park is open before you set off.

A lot, packed into a small area. Jedburgh Abbey is one of the great ruined Border abbeys in dramatic red sandstone, and Kelso, Melrose and Dryburgh have their own. Floors Castle at Kelso is Scotland’s largest inhabited castle, and south of Hawick, Hermitage Castle broods over the wild moorland of Liddesdale. Hawick itself is a textile town with knitwear mills and factory shops. Walkers have the Borders Abbeys Way and St Cuthbert’s Way, anglers have the Tweed, one of the world’s finest salmon rivers, and there is golf at Lilliardsedge and elsewhere. Add the common ridings and the rugby, and you can fill a week without repeating yourself.

May through September gives the warmest, driest weather, and the Borders are drier than the Scottish west coast, so summer touring is reliable. Our personal favourite, though, is early autumn, when the colour comes to the Teviot and Tweed valleys, the mornings turn crisp and bright, the salmon fishing peaks and the parks empty out after the school holidays. Spring is lovely too, with green valleys and lambing in the fields. Winter is quieter still and milder than the Highlands, though several parks close and Carter Bar can see snow. For the best balance of weather, events and space, aim for late spring or September.

Propane and gas exchange are available in the main towns, Hawick, Kelso and Jedburgh all have suppliers, and fuel is easy to find along the A68 and A7, so you are never far from a top-up in this well-served region. For emptying tanks, the touring parks provide a chemical disposal point for the toilet and a grey water drain for guests, and most have fresh water on the pitch or at a service point. Because the parks are close together and the towns well supplied, planning your disposal and resupply stops here is far simpler than in the remote Highlands. Just use your park’s service point before you move on.

Most caravan parks in Roxburgh welcome dogs, and the region suits them well with its miles of riverside and hill walking. Parks typically ask that dogs are kept on a lead around the pitches and facilities and that you clear up after them, and some limit the number per pitch, so check when you book. The Borders Abbeys Way and the riverside paths along the Teviot and Tweed make excellent, mostly flat walks, and there are quiet country lanes for a gentler stretch. In spring, keep dogs firmly under control near the fields, as this is prime sheep and lambing country and farmers rightly take a dim view of loose dogs.

It is a completely different experience, and a welcome one. Where the Highlands give you dramatic mountains, single-track roads, long distances and Atlantic weather, the Borders offer gentle river valleys, easy main roads, short hops between attractions and a drier, milder climate. You trade the raw grandeur for comfort and convenience, and for far fewer crowds. Many tourers combine the two, using the Borders as a relaxed first or last leg of a bigger Scottish trip via the A68. If your ideal tour is history, good food, easy driving and quiet pitches rather than mountain passes, Roxburgh will suit you better than the far north.

Yes, it is one of the better-value corners of Scotland for touring. Sitting off the main tourist trail keeps pitch prices sensible, with a peak-summer electric hook-up pitch around £20 to £32 a night and shoulder-season stays cheaper still, and the parks are rarely full so you are not paying a premium for scarcity. Because the towns and attractions sit so close together, your fuel bill stays low compared with the long Highland runs, which is a real saving. Booking ahead for summer event weekends is worth it, but otherwise you have plenty of flexibility, and a Caravan and Motorhome Club or Camping and Caravanning Club card trims a bit more off affiliated sites.