York Caravan Park is now open until 7 Jan 2024. Our long season means you won’t miss York’s Autumn fairs and Festivals or the fabulous York Christmas Markets. You could even spend a delightful Christmas or New Year holiday, right here in the centre of York. Holiday bookings are already getting underway Continue reading “York Caravan Park & Camping: 2023 Season” »

Christmas brings glad tidings to York from 16 November until 22 December. The city is transformed into a wonderland of glittering lights and Christmas music while the city’s markets are filled with stalls selling Christmas gifts and seasonal treats. Can you imagine the Shambles Markets and Parliament Square lined with wooden, alpine style chalets all beautifully decorated for Christmas? York’s Christmas Market festivities include live music, choirs and speciality markets at weekends leading up to the big day.

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Are you looking a for a caravan site open at Christmas? A caravan site where you can fill your Christmas holidays with all the magic and joys of the festive season? Well, take a look at York Caravan Park.

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Yorkshire is an amazing county to visit in the lead-up to Christmas and New Year. There’s much to see and do around York City, but that’s not all. Browse our suggestions for other places to visit in North Yorkshire through the festive period.

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Give yourself a special treat over the Christmas holiday with a visit to Yorkshire’s Winter Wonderland at York’s Designer Outlet. You’ll find an ice rink, a vintage funfair, with Christmas music and exciting cafés and bars. Designer Outlet features some of the city’s top retail therapy. All this within a few moments’ drive from York Caravan Park. Continue reading “York’s Winter Wonderland 17 Nov 23 – 7 Jan 2024” »

Learn about York in the 9th century at York’s wonderful Jorvik Viking Centre in Coppergate. The Jorvik experience is a faithful re-creation of a Viking street in Jorvik, the Viking name for York. A highlight of the visit is a guided-transporter tour through authentic dioramas depicting life, farming and work in Viking times. Continue reading “Jorvik’s Vikings Return to York” »

There really is so much to see and do around our fabulous City of York. A week’s holiday would be great, but if you can’t stay that long, take a look at Visit York’s guide to the 10 ‘Must See Attractions’ in York. The very good news, if you are staying at York Caravan Park, is that all of York City’s top attractions are within walking distance of the Coastliner bus stops at Stonebow and York Railway Station.

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York has around 80 inns and pubs within the City Walls alone. Whatever the time of year, an evening walk around the walls or riverside and then sampling some real Yorkshire ale in a cosy inn is a real pleasure. Purely for the culture and history, of course.

Ye Olde Starre Inn on Stonegate is probably York’s oldest surviving inn, dating from 1644. Continue reading “Historic Pubs of York” »

Your dogs will love a caravan holiday in York. York Caravan Park is just 2 miles from York centre with a countryside setting and on-site dog facilities which us an ideal park for touring holidays with dogs. Continue reading “York Caravan Park, Dog-Friendly Caravan Park in York” »

Visit York National Railway Museum to see the UK’s largest collection of record breaking locomotives and wonderful railway artefacts, including Queen Victoria’s lavish ‘Royal Train’, “a palace on wheels”. Entrance to the museum is FREE and there’s almost always a workshop, tour or exhibition to make your visit to the railway museum a truly exciting day out.
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