🇳🇱 Where to sleep
Camping near Amsterdam
23 campsites within 15 km of the centre — the nearest is Camping Vliegenbos, 3.1 km out; 24 motorhome stops; 55 rest areas and services on the roads in. Sleeping in your own vehicle in Netherlands: allowed with real exceptions — depends on the place.
🏕️ Campsites within 15 km
- Camping Vliegenbos · 3.1 km from the centre · tents · caravans · motorhomes · showers
- Camping Zeeburg · 4.3 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · dump station · showers
- Krakenburg · 5.7 km from the centre
- 't Uilenstekkie · 6.2 km from the centre
- Het Rietveen · 7.3 km from the centre
- Camping De Badhoeve · 7.8 km from the centre · tents · caravans
- De Sport Camping · 8.1 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · showers
- Camping VRK · 8.1 km from the centre · no tents · no caravans
- Camperpark Amsterdam · 8.9 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · showers
- EuroParcs Het Amsterdamse Bos · 9.8 km from the centre
- Camping Stal Baco · 10 km from the centre · tents · caravans
- Aemestellehoeve · 11 km from the centre · tents · caravans · showers
- Kampeervereniging De Leek · 11 km from the centre · tents · no caravans · open Apr-Oct
- Boerin Marie · 12 km from the centre
- Uitdam · 13 km from the centre
- Winkeloord · 14 km from the centre
- Eiland 9 · 14 km from the centre · tents · no caravans
- Camping Katwoude · 14 km from the centre
- Swarthoeve · 14 km from the centre · tents · caravans · showers
- Botsholland · 14 km from the centre · tents · caravans · showers
🏕️ Further out, 15–30 km
- Camping de Liede · 15 km from the centre · tents · caravans
- Scouting kampeereiland 't Mieuwtje Jisp · 16 km from the centre · tents
- Schoteroog · 17 km from the centre · tents
- Caravanpark De Akker · 17 km from the centre · showers
- Recreatiepark Aalsmeer · 17 km from the centre · tents · no caravans · motorhomes · showers
- Amsterdamse Lichtbond Naturistenvereniging Dagrecreatie · 17 km from the centre
- Scouting eiland De Kluiten · 18 km from the centre · tents · no caravans
- Camping en B&B In het Fruit · 18 km from the centre
- Landgoed Rorik · 18 km from the centre · tents · no caravans
- Starnmeer · 19 km from the centre · open 24/7
- De Rodenburghoeve · 19 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · dump station · showers
- Weidevogelzicht · 19 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · showers
🚐 Motorhome stops
- Layby · 6.3 km from the centre
- Papillon · 11 km from the centre · electricity · dump station · showers
- Camperplaats Vecht & Weide · 15 km from the centre · electricity · dump station
- Camperpark N205 · 15 km from the centre · electricity · dump station · showers
- UrbanCamperSpot Amsterdam & Haarlem · 15 km from the centre · no tents · electricity · open 24/7
- Camperplaats het Bolwerk Purmerend · 16 km from the centre · electricity
- Kaasboerderij Simonehoeve · 16 km from the centre · open Mo-Su 17:00-09:30
- Marina Park Volendam · 17 km from the centre · electricity · dump station
- Jachthaven Naarden · 18 km from the centre · no tents · no caravans · electricity · dump station · showers
- Decemberhoeve · 21 km from the centre · no tents · no caravans · electricity · dump station · showers · open Mar 02-Oct 31
Sleeping in your vehicle or a tent in Netherlands
- 🚐 In the vehicle: Allowed with real exceptions — depends on the place. Netherlands — there is no national rule; each municipality's own bye-law decides, and they differ. Parking a camper is usually fine for up to 3 days, but SLEEPING in it on the road is banned outright in places like Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Texel. Fine €170. Use a camperplaats where you can.
- ⛺ A tent outside a campsite: No right to roam, and wild camping is banned by the local council's own bye-law (the APV) in thousands of municipalities — Natuurmonumenten puts it flatly: "écht wildkamperen is nergens in Nederland toegestaan". Staatsbosbeheer closed all 17 of its free paalkamperen spots in 2020, so guides that still mention them are out of date. (Municipal APV art. 4:18; fine €170 (Besluit bestuurlijke boete overlast openbare ruimte, A.19))
- 🅿️ 55 rest areas and motorway services within 30 km — the nearest Motorway services (3.1 km), Motorway services (4.3 km), Motorway services (5.3 km).
- 🚫 Amsterdam: Milieuzone — Older diesel cars/vans and pre-Euro-VI diesel campers/trucks.
Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), distances in a straight line from the centre. What a place offers is what the map says; check with the site before you go.