Big Sky Hideaway Camping Farm

Do you fancy an old-fashioned camping holiday with a campfire? Or to stay aboard an American schoolbus? Do you want to spend more time outdoors and for your holidays to be in tune with nature rather than at odds with it? Then the advice of the owners at Big Sky Hideaway is to say yes more – and to head on over to their glamping site in the Lincolnshire Fens. It’s the latest project of the adventurer, motivational speaker and community-organiser Dave Cornthwaite and his wife Emms. This inspirational pair exude positive energy and have set up Big Sky Hideaway as a place to share it by providing escapes in nature which are powered by renewable energy.

Out on their 14-acre patch of flat Lincolnshire fenland, you can pitch your own tent or stay in one of their glamping pads. There’s a refurbed double decker called the Yes Bus, an American Schoolbus, a bell tent and a pair of Landpods which are modern, purpose-built camping cabins. Each offers space to hang out, a comfy place to lay your head and cooking facilities too. On the buses, that’s included inside by way of a small but well-equipped kitchenette and at the Landpods, you’ll have access to a more rustic field kitchen.

Rustic is the right word here when it comes to the other facilities too. There are composting toilets and simple shower cubicles dotted about. And whether you’re camping or glamping here, you’ll have a fire pit provided as the campfire is an important part of the Big Sky experience; encouraging you to spend more time outdoors. To that end, there are also woodland walks and a small herd of alpacas which you can help to feed, for a small extra fee.

In case you haven’t picked up on it, “saying yes more” is the philosophy of campsite owners Dave and Emms. It’s also the basis of the YesTribe, a community Dave founded, inspired by the kindness of strangers he met on travels around the world. Should you want to say yes to your own adventures around their new basecamp, you’ll find the flat country lanes are perfect for walks and gentle bike rides under the big skies that this landscape reveals. The River Witham is a couple of miles from site, the market town of Boston, six miles away, and the wildlife-rich Lincolnshire Coast is a few miles beyond that, it’s marshy nature reserves closest to site with big sandy beaches further north. But are they worth the drive? You can probably guess the answer.