Motorhome Parking in Denmark
Leaving Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city behind, it’s time to cross the border and a new country for us, Denmark. One thing we’re unsure of is motorhome parking in Denmark, will we be travelling with ease or finding parking up difficult? Let’s see how we got on.
First of all, our tour of Denmark is concentrating on the country’s largest region, Jutland, during April and June. Southern Jutland, a region with Denmark’s only connection to mainland Europe, thanks to a 68km stretch of border and central and northern Jutland is a region of forests, windswept sand dunes and Lego!
You may notice that our journey covers two separate trips. That’s because we were touring the east side en-route north to the ferry to Sweden at Frederikshavn. We later came back to Denmark after travels across Norway and Sweden, continuing then with our Denmark travels.
Official Motorhome Parking areas in Denmark
Denmark has a mix of options available for officially parking up in a campervan or motorhome. These include of course, campsites of which 90% provide dedicated campervan facilities with dump and fresh water fill areas.
There are also options to stop the night at some dedicated rest stops as well as shared public car parks, which usually have signs showing the area where motorhomes can park and any rules or payment options. These can be both free or fee paying, each is different.
On our trip, we didn’t use any campsites in April. This was mainly because we didn’t come across any in the places we were or if there was a campsite it wasn’t open for the season. Later on during the continuation leg of our trip in June, there were many campsites open, but we were able to use motorhome areas instead.
We didn’t come across as many motorhome only areas which some other countries have. Instead, most areas were where cars also park. However, we didn’t struggle for parking although several were just basic parking areas.
Another option often available in Denmark is motorhome parking at marina’s. These often have a dump/fresh water fill area, parking with a view, sometimes access to showers and toilets and maybe access to a town. These will generally have a fee to park up.
Although we didn’t use any ourselves, there are also private parking options, such as a farm stop, golf club or similar.
Wild Camping
In Denmark, Wild Camping is the term used for sleeping out under the stars. This is for tents and sometimes in specific locations, areas which have a basic wood shelter provided. These areas of which there are over 1000 across Denmark are accessible only on foot with no motor vehicle entry.
Basically Wild Camping in Denmark is not to be confused with the term adopted for parking up and camping outside of official areas in other countries.
Motorhome Dump/Fresh fill areas
Our Denmark travels were mainly coastal touring with some inland sections along the way. One thing we noticed early on is that a motorhome dump area isn’t always with a motorhome parking.
Unlike countries such as France with its Aire de service de Camping-Cars pretty widespread, Denmark is a little different. Sometimes, we drove some distance before finding a dump/refill area, coming to realise many were at highway service stations.
Occasionally there was a dump/fresh fill available at the motorhome parking area, but usually they were separate.
Camping Behaviour
Just like some other countries in Europe, Denmark’s motorhome parking areas are often only for parking and not for camping. Signs in the parking area will give the rules, but if in doubt, just park and don’t camp!
For those unsure on what is camping behaviour in general, this refers to doing things other than parking. For example, not putting out an awning, no table and chairs, keeping all equipment inside the motorhome etc. In other words, the campervan should be looking like its just parked in a space.
Prices
Most of the areas we parked at were free to park. Those we did come across with a fee were between 170-200 Danish Krone, roughly about £18-£22 a night.
Motorhome Parking Apps
We’re often asked on social media how do we find places to park up? We have a Garmin Overlander Sat Nav with the Campercontact App and others built in and cross reference with the Campercontact phone App and also Park4Night phone App.
We don’t have any affiliation to these companies, it’s simply what we’ve got used to using since data roaming allowances came in back in the day!
Denmark does have its own online application called Stellplatz Danmark which shows all the motorhome areas across the country.
Our verdict of motorhoming in Denmark
Overall Denmark is an easy country to tour by motorhome with various overnight options available to suit motorhoming travel.
Our travels in late April were really quiet with few motorhomes out and about. On the return trip in June, everywhere was busy but we didn’t struggle with finding a place for an overnight stay.
Some private stopover areas were full in June, but we soon found a public area where spaces were available.
Finally, just like other countries which offer public and private motorhome parking, some are purely convenient, others more scenic.
At the end of the day, the fact that there are areas provided is a very big draw to attract the motorhome community to touring in this vibrant corner of Scandinavia.
Thanks for reading ‘Motorhome Parking in Denmark’ don’t forget to like and subscribe!