Burnbake Campsite

This is only a 2nd time camping and have already been well and truly bitten by the bug! We’d had our eye on this site for a while. Had a perfect 3 days (2nights) there, despite the mixed weather. My 6 year old made friends within 5minutes of getting there and loved exploring the woods and stream. Nice little shop, toilets and showers were fine. will be returning next summer for a longer stay.

Great camp site in a great location. We spent ages looking round for a perfect pitch and found a nice little secluded bit at the bottom of the site. If it’s busy weekend it would be advisable to get there as early as you can as the site filled up later on. Facilities were generally good but quite busy at peak times. There are cycle paths next to the camp site and we cycled all the way to poole one day via the ferry (quite a treck but pretty flat). Good location for exploring Corfe Castle

Visited here as a couple and on driving in almost turned around and left. It looked very run down and untidy and it was quite crowded. But after driving around we found a lovely spot in amongst the trees and decided to give it a go.

I'm glad we did as the site had a lovely feel to it and we thoroughly enjoyed our weekend camping here. We were sat outside the tent on Saturday night, with a small fire (allowed if off the ground in a container), a carpet of stars above us and the sound of a steam train in the background.

The toilet block is generous and was better than some I have used and given that you are camping amongst trees and in a field the amount of mud on the floor was acceptable. The showers are roomy and the water was hot. The ladies facilities were apparently a mess but that was only because there was a school on the events field and the girls had treated the facilities with less respect than they should have.

If you want tarmaced roads, shower and toilet blocks with spotless floors and a warden dashing round hushing you off to bed at 10pm then pay over £20 per night and go to a Forest Holidays campsite. If you want a relaxed site, with more than acceptable facilities and to be treated like grownups by the site owners then pay your £10 per night and come here instead.

We will be going back.

We have been going to the this campsite for 6 years and every year we return hoping that the facilities have been updated. The setting is lovely, as is the freedom that the children have, but the facilities are not good.

The cleanliness of the showers and toilets is poor and the lottery of whether you are going to get scalding or feezing cold water when you do shower make it difficult to spend more than a few days. We stay on an adjoining field as we are in a large group, porterloos are provided, but are unusable within a day or two as they are only cleaned half way through the weak. It is a shame, the site it always jam packed, if a little of the money was spent on updating the facilities it would make all the difference.

We love this place, open woods, swings for the kids, walks for the dogs in the adjacent woods and all set in one of the most beautiful areas in the country. No marked pitches, just turn up and camp, sounds idillic but the reality is somewhat different. The site operates an answerphone service which you ring on the day you are arriving, they then tell you if the site is full or not. So there you are all packed and ready to go, call and find out they are fully booked. It is only then that you find out that every other site for 100miles around is fully booked as well.

It is a fantastic place though, a cycle ride from the beach and a fantastic ridge walk to the village of Corfe Castle or, for the more adventureous, Swanage in the other direction. Wareham is a 10 minute drive away with a supermarket and the usual small high street shops.

After years of visiting this site we are calling it a day, at least during the high season. Such a shame because the place is so wonderfull. Great for an off season short break but really not suitable for a summer holiday due to the sites refusal to accept bookings. Would have given it 5 stars but if going there is not possible then even the three I have given it is generous.

ingredients-rupert bear woodland,4 lively kids,one old tent and bbq and you’re in heaven.burnbake is one of those little national treasures we should keep quiet but just cant - a little piece of heaven in dorset.lovely walks,swanage and corfe nearby-all you need is george the dog and ginger beer!we loved it and some!..

Went with our three children last weekend as a treat. They dissappeared as soon as the car came to a stop and happily entertained themselves swinging over a stream until we got the tent sorted out. Pitched between some ancient oaks with lots of space and a long way from any other tent. Bring a map as it backs on to forestry with lots of paths to explore - unless you get lost like us! Absolutely stunning! We’ll be going back.