Willow Caravan Park

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  • Adults-only, dog-friendly site 15 minutes’ drive from York
  • Clifton Moor shops five minutes’ drive; Castle Howard half an hour
  • Café on site for breakfasts, sandwiches and afternoon teas
Those who wish to experience the attractions of the city of York while also waking up to the sight of endless green fields and dense woodland should consider staying at Willow House Caravan Park. From this peaceful, adults-only site (over 18s only), it’s a 15-minute drive to reach York Minster – that’s pretty handy, right? Even handier, though, is letting someone else do the driving into the city: you can catch a bus at the end of the drive. What’s more, you’re only a five-minute drive from Clifton Moor Retail Park, with its supermarkets, stores and entertainment options for rainy days (a multiscreen cinema and ten-pin bowling among them). But what about the site itself? In addition to two wildlife ponds – where you can stroll along looking at the ducks as they swim in and out of the bullrushes – there’s a café serving huge cooked breakfasts, sandwiches and wraps, all made with locally sourced produce. Oh, and afternoon teas with home-made cakes and other sweet treats. There is also a gift shop in the café. Your four-legged companion is a welcome guest here, and you can take them (or yourselves) for a walk through Westfield Wood nearby. Back on site, you’ll be able to use the wet room and washing-up area, as well as extra facilities near the café, which include showers and toilets (including facilities for disabled guests) plus a laundry area.

Site type

Tent pitches 16
Touring caravan pitches 20
Motorhome pitches 20
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 10
Open all year
Opens
Please note
  • Group bookings of 3 or more units (e.g. tent, touring caravan, motorhome or accommodation hire) travelling together are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • Guests under the age of 18 are not allowed on site.
  • Bookings must not be for more than 30 consecutive nights.
  • Discount cards and gift vouchers cannot be applied to bookings made via Pitchup.com.
  • Guests are advised to bring a good quality torch with them as parts of the site are unlit.
  • Please note that the toilet/shower facilities are unisex.
  • Swimming in the lake is not allowed.

Languages spoken

English

Reviews

79%

would recommend this site to a friend

77%

would stay here again

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

was good en very quied…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 6
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 2
Customer service 2
Child friendliness 2
Cleanliness 4
Wifi 10
Fre W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: was good en very quied

Disliked: sad that there is no reception, the toikets ware not clean because woman en gents go in the same toilet.

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Would recommend this site if you’re doing a travelling through

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 6
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 6
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: The site was well maintained and quiet, lovely cafe. Excellent location to get the bus into York and back

Disliked: Broken washing machine & dryer & hairdryer

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Peaceful and relaxing

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service No rating
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 10
Janet W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Well maintained pitches in a peaceful location with a great cafe on-site. Amenities block clean but tired, it would benefit from a refurbishment. Very handy for trips into York (Number 40 bus stop right outside the site), and there is a quiet dog walk into the village behind the site.

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Excellent site, great pitch size and excellent toilets. Cafe on the site was…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 8
Mark W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Excellent site, great pitch size and excellent toilets. Cafe on the site was excellent value for money too. We will use this site again

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Loved Willow caravan park - very peaceful, relaxing site. Beautiful countryside surrounding.…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Trish C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Loved Willow caravan park - very peaceful, relaxing site. Beautiful countryside surrounding. Friendly campers. Enjoyed the stroll to Wigginton along the beck direct from the site.

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Nice site. Probably won’t stay again tho

Overall 6/10
Location 10
Value for money 6
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service 2
Child friendliness 2
Cleanliness 4
Wifi 4
Candina C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Quite location. Easy access to buses and into York centre.

Disliked: Long walk to showers and toilets. Portable toilet was smelly and no light for night use. Unmanned site (on normal days this would be fine) we wanted some information about the local area and had no one to ask. Also on arrival we wasn’t sure where to pitch up the information said between posts but there wasn’t any posts!

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From the site there is a lovely walk into a small village.great…

Overall 8/10
Location 4
Value for money 6
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service No rating
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 8
Julie W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: From the site there is a lovely walk into a small village.great showers, nice clean site.only down fall is the busy road,which you can hear the traffic a night. Would of loved to have walked into York but no off road route ☹️

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Will definitely stay again

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Rod C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Clean, friendly site lovely cafe too

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Peaceful site. Just facilities let them down.…

Overall 2/10
Location 6
Value for money 4
Accommodation 2
Facilities / Activities 2
Customer service 2
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 6
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Peaceful site. Just facilities let them down.

Disliked: Toilets and wash rooms not adequate for size of site. Also needs deep clean.

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Great quiet, adults only site…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 6
Trevor B. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Great quiet, adults only site

Disliked: Because there are no marked pitches, it can be a bit of a free for all, with some campers pitches right next to all, it does need defined pitches allocated on booking.

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Games room Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site cafe On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Play area TV room Take away Tennis Watersports

Amenities 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 Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Adults only Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Peaceful Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Chemical disposal Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Public transport nearby Shop nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 pitches)

Accessibility

Disabled facilities

Nearby leisure

Fishing nearby Golf nearby Indoor pool nearby Restaurant nearby Tennis nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Seasonal pitches

Location

Willow Caravan Park

Wigginton Road

York

North Yorkshire

England

YO32 2RH

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London +0100 (GMT+01:00)

GPS

54.00341°N
-1.08607°W

Route directions

What3words: thatched.mutual.line.

Nearest transport

Coach
5.1 km Rail Station Stop C
5.1 km Rail Station Stop J
11.3 km Stamford Bridge The Square
Rail
5.1 km York Rail Station
5.1 km Poppleton Rail Station
13 km Hammerton Rail Station
Airport
40.6 km Leeds Bradford International Airport

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

Unmissable sights in York (15 minutes’ drive) include the medieval Minster, with its colourful stained-glass windows, and the JORVIK Viking Centre, where you can learn all about the early history of the city. Trainspotters make a beeline for the ​​National Railway Museum York, where locomotives on display include a replica of Stephenson’s Rocket and the Art Deco-inspired Duchess of Hamilton. With a patchwork landscape of hills, arable fields and woodland, the Howardian Hills National Landscape (20 minutes) is a popular destination for hikers and cyclists. Wildlife enthusiasts can keep an eye out for roe deer, stoats and badgers, plus birds of prey. An 18th-century stately home, Castle Howard (half an hour) has elegant rooms adorned with paintings by Italian Old Masters and English artists like Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. There’s also a pre-Raphaelite Chapel, decorated by William Morris, plus expansive parkland dotted with lakes and follies.

Must see

York Minster 4.6 km

YorkBoat Guided River Trips 4.8 km

National Railway Museum 4.8 km

JORVIK Viking Centre 5.2 km

York Dungeon 5.3 km

National Trust

Treasurer's House 4.6 km

Goddards Garden 7.1 km

Beningbrough Hall and Gardens 8.4 km

Nunnington Hall 23.6 km

Rievaulx Terrace 28.4 km

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

MUSEUM GARDENS, YORK 4.7 km

Snickets, Ginnels and Walls of York 5.3 km

YORK CEMETERY 6 km

ROWNTREE PARK 6.1 km

BENINGBOROUGH HALL 8.4 km

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

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Willow Caravan Park have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Willow Caravan Park dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Willow Caravan Park? Unmissable sights in York (15 minutes’ drive) include the medieval Minster, with its colourful stained-glass windows, and the JORVIK Viking Centre, where you can learn all about the early history of the … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Willow Caravan Park?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  12:30 p.m. –  9 p.m.
    Depart by:  noon
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Willow Caravan Park? From €36.82 (for 1 night, 4 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.