Camping Naturiste Héliomonde

Camping Naturiste Héliomonde is encircled by a number of regional parks and forest areas, with loads of walking, cycling and simple wandering available in the lot. By car, it's half an hour’s drive to D’huison-Longueville, a decent spot for town strolls and picnics (make sure you sample the local Gâtinais honey), as well as the hub for a number of hikes through the surrounding Val d’Essonne countryside. A similar distance away, the equestrian centre at Orveau is a nifty base for exploring the area from the saddle. It’s 45 minutes to Milly-la-Forêt, a pleasant town famed for its local produce and for being on the edge of the Gâtinais-Français Regional Nature Park. A little further away but very doable in a day is Fontainebleu, a heady mix of forest hikes, boulder scrambling and tours of the château, Napoleon’s number one country bolthole. The site is an hour's drive from Paris too, or slightly longer (but quite possibly a lot more relaxing) if you take the train from Saint-Chéron. With boulevards, museums, river cruises and cathedrals all to investigate, you could easily come every day for a whole summer and sort stuff to do. On a grand scale of their own and ever popular with younger visitors, the site is an hour and 10 minutes to Disneyland and an hour and 20 to Parc Astérix.