🇧🇪 Where to sleep
Camping near Ghent
8 campsites within 15 km of the centre — the nearest is Camping ’t Stropke, 2.7 km out; 16 motorhome stops; 19 rest areas and services on the roads in. Sleeping in your own vehicle in Belgium: allowed with real exceptions — depends on the place.
🏕️ Campsites within 15 km
- Camping ’t Stropke · 2.7 km from the centre
- Urban Gardens · 2.8 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · showers
- Hopper Jeugdverblijf Moerkensheide · 8.7 km from the centre
- De Oude Kale vallei hoeve · 9.2 km from the centre
- Camping Groeneveld · 12 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · dump station · showers
- camping Christoforus · 12 km from the centre
- 't Groen Beleven · 13 km from the centre · tents · open May-Sep
- Bivakzone De Singel · 14 km from the centre · tents · no caravans
🏕️ Further out, 15–30 km
- Camping Bosrand · 16 km from the centre · tents · caravans · electricity · showers
- Bivakzone Het Leen · 16 km from the centre · tents · no caravans
- Camping Puyenbroeck · 17 km from the centre · tents · caravans
- Verblijfpark Kouter · 18 km from the centre
- Camping Lake Park · 18 km from the centre
- Rodeo · 18 km from the centre
- Groenpark · 18 km from the centre
- Kloosterputten · 18 km from the centre · electricity
- Gamma · 19 km from the centre
- Gamma · 19 km from the centre
- 't Houtland · 19 km from the centre · tents · caravans · motorhomes · electricity · dump station · showers · open May-Oct
- Roosendael · 19 km from the centre
🚐 Motorhome stops
- Vaartplein · 14 km from the centre
- Camperplek Gavere · 14 km from the centre · no tents · dump station · showers
- Camperplaats Bellem-Noord · 17 km from the centre
- Camperplaats Bellem-Zuid · 17 km from the centre
- Kampeerautoterrein Sporthal Assenede · 20 km from the centre · caravans · electricity · dump station · open 24/7
- Verloren Bos Lokeren Aardeken · 20 km from the centre · no tents
- Camperplaats 't Eiland · 20 km from the centre · electricity · dump station · open 24/7
- Hooggoed Camperplaats · 23 km from the centre · no tents
- Gemeentelijke camperparking van Moerbeke · 23 km from the centre
- Bij de Bieleput · 25 km from the centre · no tents · no caravans · motorhomes · electricity · showers
Sleeping in your vehicle or a tent in Belgium
- 🚐 In the vehicle: Allowed with real exceptions — depends on the place. Belgium — motorway rest areas are theft-prone; prefer aires or campsites. Municipal rules vary — read the signs.
- ⛺ A tent outside a campsite: Prohibited, and the two regions differ. Flanders says it plainly — you may not simply pitch a tent in nature — and offers a bivakzone network instead: free, bookable online, three pitches a zone, one night only. Wallonia's forest code allows overnight stay solely in designated areas and otherwise keeps you on the paths. (Flanders: Agentschap Natuur en Bos bivakzone scheme. Wallonia: Code forestier (décret 15 July 2008) arts. 19–20)
- 🅿️ 19 rest areas and motorway services within 30 km — the nearest Rustplaats Gentbrugge-Noord (4.5 km), Rustplaats Gentbrugge-Zuid (4.6 km), Dienstenzone Drongen-Zuid (6.0 km).
- 🚫 Ghent: LEZ (register/day-pass) — Older diesel/petrol; foreign plates must register.
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.