A Fantastic Weekend Campervan Road Trip in the Mendip Hills, Somerset

The clue’s in the name. The Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is stunning. Rolling fields, towering trees, view after view point. And, all in a relatively close proximity.

The Mendips are the perfect destination for a weekend road trip in the UK whether you’re looking for something different to do in the UK from abroad or you want to explore more of our own country.

Head to the Mendips and you’re in Somerset. A British county famous for its cider, fudge and farms – and Glastonbury Festival. The locals are known for being friendly, for having a wonderful accent, and sometimes, a combine harvester (can be offensive). 

Somerset has all the beauty of 40 miles of British coastline and is also home to Exmoor National Park, but today we’re looking at what to do in the Mendip Hills, aka ‘the Mendips’.

Mendips road trip in a campervan

This whole Mendips road trip is only about two hours of driving – give or take. Some of those roads can be pretty tight which slows you down. But, feel secure in the knowledge that I made it – two days of driving – in a VW California Campervan and I didn’t even get a scrape.

We rented our campervan for the Mendips from Camptoo – ’the airbnb of the campervan world’. We had a lush VW California which was around £120 per day, plus cleaning and booking fee. 

– Post in collaboration with Camptoo