Jurassic Camp
View prices & book- Small, friendly farm site a mile from the Jurassic Coast
- A 15-minute drive from Weymouth, Chesil Beach and Dorchester
- Simple grass pitches with farm animals to meet; dogs welcome
Site type
- The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. XL Bully, Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro).
- If making a fire, the fuel, logs and coal have to be purchased on site.
- Guests are advised to bring a good quality torch with them as parts of the site are unlit.
- Swimming in the lake is not allowed.
- All groups of 8 or more adults will be required to pay a good behavior bond on arrival.
Languages spoken
English
Open from Fri, 5 Jul to
Pitch types & availability
Non-electric grass motorhome pitch
6 people maximum Ground type: Grass
Pitch size: Max 6.0m width x 6.0m depth (19.7ft width x 19.7ft depth) Calculated area: 36.0m² (387.5ft²)
Arrival daysFrom £25 1 night, 2 adults
View prices & bookNon-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch (family)
6 people maximum Ground type: Grass
Pitch size: Max 6.0m width x 6.0m depth (19.7ft width x 19.7ft depth) Calculated area: 36.0m² (387.5ft²)
Arrival daysFrom £25 1 night, 2 adults
View prices & bookNon-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch (groups only)
Max. persons unlimited Ground type: Grass
Pitch size: unlimited
Arrival daysFrom £25 1 night, 2 adults
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Reviews
Voted 58% of visitors View breakdown
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The whole experience was just amazing 10/10…
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Liked: The whole experience was just amazing 10/10
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I liked the location, the facilities were good. Close to weymouth…
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Liked: I liked the location, the facilities were good. Close to weymouth
Disliked: Some loud campers late at night, but that's not the camp fault.
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Good clean campsite with plenty of good free showers and clean toilets.…
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Liked: Good clean campsite with plenty of good free showers and clean toilets. Easy place to find in the dark and a play area to go for the kids. Shall go again if we go back to Dorset.
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Great views of rolling hills
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Liked: Great location, lovely views, nice hot showers, plenty of space once the bank holiday crowd went! Great to have access to fridges and phone charging, loved the fire pits
Disliked: Was super busy on bank holiday Saturday but fine after that. Toilets basic but acceptable for a pop up
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Settings and access to walks…
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Liked: Settings and access to walks
Disliked: Disgusting facilities; dirty, smelly and rat droppings clearly visible (in the toilets!!)! Bins overflowing and weren’t emptied at all over our 3 night stay. Host tried to charge extra in cash for additional person stay rather than the cost stated on the website. Potential to be a lovely place if some money was put back into the place.
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From the manager: I'm amazed how rather than bring your concerns to me you come her and tell a load of bullshit!! So for once I'll tell you how it is and the other side of the coin as the saying goes. You arrived with a bad attitude probably after a crap drive down arriving late with the idea of sneaking on an extra person who decided to tag along and not book like everyone else so on arrival yes I catch you out. Those who don't pay in advance and try to turn up but hoping to sneak in yes are charged £15 for my time to add to the booking at an extra bloody .50 pence!!!!! next time I'll refuse to allow extra non-paid tag-along's or charge 50% more!!! thanks Indeed sometimes especially the August BH weekend our bins fill and because of our rural location we only get our bins emptied fortnightly on a Thursday this is a difficult balance as we were not due till the Thursday after the BH weekend to have them collected which meant my 8 commercial bins were full. However if more people did what the signs asked, that rather than throw a hefty black bag full of all mixed rubbish into a full bin you actually recycled the contents of your black bag in to the other bins of 'glass only' /'paper & Card only / plastic & metal only' then the main blag bag waste bins would not be so full, many a time I'm at the bins to encourage and help people recycle their rubbish with nearly most campers already respectfully doing so. Myself I wonder if I was to trace your car leaving whether I would actually see you pulling up and just throwing your bag in to the already overflowing blag bag bin and just driving off without a care or perhaps you might have been part of the group that dumped your rubbish 100 yards up the road to the annoyance of my neighbours!! You than make a claim that Rat droppings were in the toilet?? can you please provide photographic evidence so I may have this checked, I would be most surprised at this as over the weekends I have my cleaner Tracy and myself cleaning the toilets as much as we can. I forget how many times the last 2 weeks of August we had to wipe down floors, toilets and cubicles from where someone had either defecated, diarrhoea or puked all over the place. Yes my gents can be smelly in the morning from the wind and then smelly from the urinal at times, its an old urinal and with old pipework, the farm has an old style sewerage treatment system and to ensure it does its job we cannot use any form of bleaching cleaners that can easily remove ammonia smells we can only use environmentally friendly expensive natural products that have only a limited use. This coming winter I will be doing away with the old stainless urinal and replacing with screened individual urinals and replacing the waste pipework. I will also now with the government finally making moves to overturn the ridiculous Nutrient legislation that came out 2 years ago preventing many rural land/property owners like myself the ability to upgrade old archaic septic tank/sewerage systems to modern effective sewerage treatment plants. This finally brings me to the final insult of 'if some money was put back into the site' so for your information I am not a seasonal campsite, I am a 28 day pop-up campsite though next year we have the ability to stay open possibly up to 60 days. this means I can offer my fields for people to camp and provide basic facilities. In 2020 I was fortunate to have some basic toilets already in place that we refurbished albeit at a limited budget, I also bought in a mobile shower unit at a cost of 6K with the money I took from that season I was able to take out a loan and spent 20K on building 9 unit showers with a state of the art looped twin tanked hot water system. Each year I use part of the income and its going back in to the camp facilities and slowly each year they improve on the previous for what is only a basic pop-up site. The rest of the income is slowly building up and this is for the next big expenditure phase, for this site to become a proper camp-site it wil require the huge investment of a state of the art sewerage treatment plant which at moment is in the region of £140K !!! So yes some bloody money is being invested in to this place!! its unfortunate but I wont be encouraging you to visit gain to see/experience this in time as quite frankly your not welcome, Ta da. Jw Owner
Lovely rural site with everything you need
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Liked: Lovely rural location, nice views to wake up to and no light pollution at all which makes for great star gazing! Check in was easy and the guy was very welcoming. Plenty of facilities if you like to have proper toilets/ showers and washing up areas. We only stayed for the weekend but had a great time. The farm animals (geese, chickens and a very lovely cat) were fine. I’ve seen reviews where they have been said to attack people but we didn’t witness this at all. People were walking by them and they didn’t seem bothered or vicious.
Disliked: The men’s toilets made the corridor smell quite bad (you have to walk past the men’s to get to the ladies) which wasn’t very pleasant but didn’t ruin our stay. The campsite is a small one, but was extremely busy so tent areas were quite cramped as lots of tents very close together, however saying this our plot gave us more than enough space to have our very large tent and seating area with campfire outside for our group. With the pitches being quite close together we did have a neighbour complain about our fire because the wind was taking the smoke in the direction of their tents but we couldn’t help that!
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Never again
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Liked: Good localization
Disliked: Extremely loud camping with no rules. If you have children and would like to sleep at night then don't go there! Large groups of young people listen to loud music until the morning, and the owner doesn't care. Very smelly toilets located far from the tents. No llamas.
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Really good stay, would stay again 100%
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Liked: The area, facilities, animals
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OK, but not so much if you want peace and quiet
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Liked: The animals, and the availability of fridges, freezer and mobile phone charging. The field was fairly flat and ground soft for pegging down the tent.
Disliked: Noisier than expected, late into the night on one particular night. I ended up asking two different groups to quieten down around midnight. The toilet facilities were a bit rough and ready and the men’s toilets smelled really bad.
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Nice welcome Walks…
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Liked: Nice welcome Walks
Disliked: No hand dryers working or paper towels
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Features
Dogs allowed
Campfires allowed
Leisure on site
Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Games room Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Play area TV room Take away Tennis WatersportsAmenities on site
Bath available Car parking by pitch/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area WifiGroups welcome
D. of E. welcome Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Rallies welcome Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcomeRules
Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all yearCamping 2.0
Jumbo tent pitchesThemes
Budget/backpacker Peaceful Spectacular scenery Walkers' paradiseUtilities
Charging facilities Chemical disposal Communal fridge Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energyNearby amenities
Bar nearby Dog walk nearbyType
Farm Large (51-200 pitches)Accessibility
Disabled facilitiesNearby leisure
Canoeing/kayaking nearby Climbing nearby Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Mountain biking nearby Restaurant nearby Sailing nearby Surf school nearby Watersports nearbyLocation
Jurassic Camp
Rodden Farm
Rodden
Dorset
England
DT3 4JE
Timezone
Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)
GPS
50.65411°N
-2.5526°W
Nearest transport
Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.
Local attractions
Water quality at nearby bathing waters
Name | Distance | Type | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
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Weymouth Central | 5.2 mi | Sea | N/A | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
Weymouth Lodmoor | 5.2 mi | Sea | N/A | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
Portland Harbour Sandsfoot Castle | 5.7 mi | Sea | N/A | Good | Excellent | Good |
Portland Harbour Castle Cove | 5.7 mi | Sea | N/A | Excellent | N/A | N/A |
Bowleaze Cove | 5.8 mi | Sea | N/A | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
Data source: European Environment Agency
Must see
Abbotsbury Swannery 2.1 mi
Radipole Lake Nature Reserve 4.9 mi
Weymouth Sea Life Park and Marine Sanctuary 5.1 mi
Hardy's Birthplace 8.8 mi
Mapperton House & Gardens 11.8 mi
National Trust
Max Gate 6.8 mi
Hardy's Cottage 8.8 mi
Clouds Hill 13.9 mi
Corfe Castle 21.7 mi
Montacute House 21.7 mi
Cycle routes
Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.
Other
Abbotsbury - Elsworth - Portesham - Chapel Hill 2.1 mi
Abbotsbury - Hardy Monument - Portesham - Abbotsbury 2.1 mi
Abbotsbury - West Bexington - Chesil Beach - Abbotsbury 2.1 mi
Hardy Monument Circular 2.3 mi
ABBOTSBURY GARDENS 2.8 mi
Local events
- Dorset County Show (Saturday 7 September 2024 – Saturday 7 September 2024)
Dorchester, Dorset 7.3 mi
- Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally (Friday 19 July 2024 – Friday 19 July 2024)
Dorchester, Dorset 13 mi
- Tankfest (Friday 28 June 2024 – Friday 28 June 2024)
Wareham, Dorset 13.8 mi
- Camp Bestival Dorset (Thursday 25 July 2024 – Thursday 25 July 2024)
Wareham, Dorset 15.2 mi
- Sidmouth Folk Festival (Friday 2 August 2024 – Friday 2 August 2024)
Sidmouth, Devon 30 mi
Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.
Nearest sites
Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable sites.
Want to know more about camping in Dorset?
- Does Jurassic Camp have a swimming pool? No View all features
- Is Jurassic Camp dog friendly? Yes View all features
- What attractions are near Jurassic Camp? Trips to the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty often mean walks or bike rides – and those are easily done from Jurassic Camp, with several footpaths and bridleways leading off into … Read more
- When can I check in and check out of Jurassic Camp?
Camping and touring Arrive: Anytime – Anytime Depart by: Anytime - How much does it cost to stay at Jurassic Camp? From £25 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.