Welcome to Badger's Australian Caravan Park and Camping Reviews

Established 1998, this web site contains caravan park, campground, and station-stay reviews, as rated by the people who stay in them - YOU - the caravanners, campers,  motorhomers, and cabin users - unlike the usual park rating system used in standard guides.

This is NOT a commercial or profit-making website. All work on this site is 100% voluntary, and has been since its inception.

It is with sadness that I am closing this website at the end of November, 2024.

It was the first of its kind in the world. Fact.
It was always free.
I never made a cent from it, and even turned down selling the website and data to the original owners of Camps Australia, because I wanted a free service available to people.
Now we have countless aps and websites doing the same thing. (Yeah, but I was first, so there.)
I have better things to do (i.e. touring) than to upgrade the website.
It has been on various servers since 1998. The current one is run by Gary Stratton, piggybacking off his myparkslist.com server.
Gary offered his server to me when my previous host closed shop. Gary did all the coding to get it to what it is.
Before that, all reports were added manually.
(Ah, what fun that was, but I read every single report back then. So many "new" places I had to look up to find out where the heck they were.)
Then we transferred all existing reports to Gary's server 10 years ago.
Since then, there have been an additional 17,122 reports submitted from 2,212 contributors (123 submitting more than 30 reports), over 3,537 listed parks.
Most of it is automated. Any report moderations required (for new users) have been tirelessly done by Lyn H (Kevin & Lyn) my top contributor, even while they have been traipsing (it seems endlessly) around the world or on cruises. Geez, girl, smell the roses! I can't hug you enough.

BIG thanks, hugs, and handshakes to my top contributors, some of whom have been "with me" since day one, some sadly have passed on:
Kevin & Lyn; Peter & Lee; Malcolm & Maya; Glenn & Jenny; Mad Mick; waznjen; Peter and Jean Reynella SA; Baz & Mick; JuBob; The Meadows; straflo; Fran & Trevor (Shakazulu) Melbourne; Bob & Al; Jenny & Terry Abbott; Island Travellers; Sue, Fleur, Jaxon & Connor; U Boughta Jeep; GeeNEmm; Max & Diane; Nicholstones; TeePee; Happy Wanderers; Redcaps Gelorup; lambo; Bungendore; Cob and Oma; Greg & Sue; Travelling in the Shoebox; Kjay; Greybeard and Silvertop; Bryan and Vicki; Max Sydney; Thompsons; Our Donnie; Nannie; Bobbiee; Peter WH; Les and Lyn; LOPAJO; Bluey and Rose, Flagstaff Hill SA; Shez; Motherhen; Stockos; Leszek and Jackie, Malua Bay NSW; Scooter; Aussie Camper; Dusty; Limpy; The Ridge; Chips; Graham & Lyn, Adelaide; Jenar; PeterD; Robmarang; Ian_G; Deborah D; Dribbling Drifters; Bob & Siobhan; Nick and Kaye; Oz Gypsy; Peter W; granite53; John from Hunter NSW; Toto; Blue Lakers; Not So Grays; P & E, Aberfoyle Park; Varena Hardy; Littlenose; Travelbugs Lake Macquarie; Buster K; ginphil; Pelijo; Uneek Nomads; Billee; G&P Flagstaff Hill SA; Hansens around Oz; Pudding; K & J Humphreys; wombat; Winnie Wanderers; Eivel Gnome; The Nielsens; Geof; PK Adelaide; Rockies on the road; Susan Hunt; Richard & Marilyn, Langwarrin; Almo of Mt Gambier; Pete M; jeepjeepjim; S, S and S; Navarra; Escaped; Necani Nomads; 2 grey nomads; Mick themungrel; Peteracc; BJ; P Lynch; ubique67; Ross and Dawn, Newcastle; Sir Larry; The traveller; Frank and Brenda; SteveT; Uncle Arthur; Motley2; John C.; GoGo; Kevin R; Neil n Raine; TBAB; Traveller; Boo; Chris and Terri; Dave & Elsie; Marion Slater; George and Cheryl; Helen and Andrew; Phillip & Cheryl.
Plus the 2,000+ other contributors, also some of whom have been long termers.

You all made me jealous of your travels for so many years. Since late 2020, now we're doing our own.
Some of you have had my wife and me laughing our socks off with your emails to me.
A few we have met on the road, or when you've been in Melbourne.

To coin Douglas Adams: So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Badger - Gerard