Without seeking consent, in Norway you can pitch a tent for two consequtive days (longer in the boonies away from populations) anywhere (both private and public property) as long as:

• You are more than 150 meters away from an occupied house/cabin
• You are not a nuiance to the property owner or other people that use it
• It is not a camp site (business)
• In areas and times where hunting of wild deer is going on
• Not in courtyards, driveways, etc
• Not in gardens/house properties - the area arround the house that would disturb privacy
• Not in farmed fields and other fields used for farming
• Not in planted forrest plots
• Not in industrial areas, public areas, or other areas where you will be a pain in the ass
• Not in smaller fenced in plots or smaller plots within farmed fields

Just use common sense... and leave it as you found it, preferably better. Take more trash with you when you leave than you brought in is a nice gesture.

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In Oz we have this Public Service promo which says "Stop, Revive, Survive".

We even have Driver Reviver stations along major highways where you can get a free coffee and cake from a Rotary (or other charity) caravan.

So - after you have selected a nice, quiet, off road spot, IF the council ranger or police come along and tell you to move, just say to them that you are dead tired, feeling sick and have ridden 10 hours that day, and promise to be gone first thing in the morning... and they usually let you stay.
If you have been drinking alcohol, they can't force you to ride/drive

Another alternative in small country towns is to find out from the local publican who is responsible for the Community Hall, and can he ask them if you could camp one night in the grounds. I've only even been refused once - and most times the caretaker will unlock the outside dunny for me.

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In the real world - the driver reviver stations only operate during major holiday exodus days.
Some shire council areas DO have blanket bans on any form of free camping anywhere within shire boundaries and some DO enforce it.
A ranger can't force you to move whether drunk or just pretending or stubborn, BUT he can and will issue a ticket which in some places reach 500 dollars. Being pissed or tired is your problem, issuing tickets to undesirables is his. However, on the RV forums the question is occasionally asked whether anyone has reports of actual fines being issued and I think the answer has so far always been 'no'. Backpackers in old whizzzzzBANGs and wicked vans are a real problem in some of the more iconic areas and they are the direct reason for more and more areas being closed to responsible self-contained free-campers (or should that be free-loaders?). On the other side of the argument there are RV groups making a lot of headway in getting towns to recognise that RVers can contribute a lot to the economy of their area - but the resulting overnight stay areas are generally for self contained vehicles.

That said, we have overnighted in more than 20 countries, including in the middle of big cities over a period of 7 years full-timing and in countries where is is said to be totally banned and only twice been moved on - from a fishing reserve in Montana by a ranger doing his job in response to a complaint by a nosey local and a carpark in Morocco by a trio of freelance police working for the local RV park.

There are too many variables, both in attitudes of the governments, police, council rangers, locals AND the traveller for a list such as this to be of much use.

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Actually same for Finland (I think this goes to Scandinavia in generally).

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juhhyto, do you live in Finland? I just wondered if your info was from the horses mouth, or whether you'd heard it from someone. I'm travelling to Norway, Sweden and Finland next Summer. I'm clear on the rules for Norway and Sweden, but not so much with Finland.

Anyone else know?

Maybe it was posted here before...we found lots of nice free campsites and boondocks in the US and Kanada here: www.freecampsites.net

No camping allowed in Croatia, except official camp sites.
It's even forbiden to camp on your own land

Im a Brit living in the south of Portugal and I go off for long weekends in Portugal and Spain and wild camp every time. Portugal (especially the south) has 1000's of miles of off road tracks and not a lot of fenced land so it makes it very easy. Spain I find a bit harder to find that ideal quiet spot due to more fenced land but still easy to do.
Like most people have been saying on this thread, basically don't make loads of noise, don't leave litter about, try and dig a hole for your turds or at least pick a sensible spot and a big no no is fires. We have a lot of dry land that can go up in flames with just 1 spark.

That's sound advice about wild camping in this climate and a good observation about southern Spain.

In most of Spain, however, it's quite rare to find land fenced in apart from meadows and gardens near villages. In Extremadura especially there are large tracts of dehesa that are fenced off in to big estates where they rear the wonderful Iberian semi-wild pigs that live off the acorns. And with a ham starting at €400 each it's no surprise that the owners are touchy about their welfare!

Simon

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