LONG HAZEL PARK
Adult Only Touring Caravan Park & Camping
Sparkford Somerset
01963440002
longhazelpark@hotmail.com
OPEN ALL YEAR
ADULT ONLY CARAVAN PARK WITH JULY AVAILABILITY
It's summer in Somerset and a wonderful time to get out and about to see the county. As an adult only touring and camping park, you won't have to worry about the school holidays getting in the way of your relaxing break. We have both standard and fully serviced hardstandings for your motorhome or caravan and lots of tent pitches available with availability for a short break, a weekend away in Somerset or a whole week to explore nearby!
The Swiss-owned Hauser & Wirth art gallery will be running a an exhibition dedicated to Angel Otero. This is the artist's first UK exhibition, reflecting on his past in Puerto Rico.
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The works featured in the exhibition were created during the artist's residency in Bruton, Somerset and brings interesting oil paintings using a technique where the artist paints on to glass, leaves this to dry and then peels the painting off as a sheet to apply to different surfaces.
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The exhibition runs alongside Hauser & Wirth's Oudolf Field, with unique planting from renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf.
See our local National Trust properties in full bloom and brilliant sunshine! We're situated within a short distance of many properties in Somerset, as well as just over the borders in Dorset and Wiltshire.
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Our National Trust page has ideas for 15 nearby days out, with gardens and outdoor monuments with wonderful views taking prime position on our list for summer adventures. Our nearest property is just 5 miles away, near Somerton, and some are so close they can even be completed in one day.
Enjoy three nights of live music at The Bishop's Palace in Wells this July. The UK's smallest city plays host to theze great musical evenings out:
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Friday 3 July - Country Superstars Theatre Tour
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Saturday 4 July - East 17, Dave Finnegan’s Commitments, Sonia
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Sunday 5 July - Pop Queens Live
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Spend a weekend down on the farm at The Newt in Somerset.
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The Newt have a new event this July, where they will spend a weekend opening up their grounds for their new Summer Farm Show on 4 and 5 July
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You'll be able to see some of The Newt's top farmyard animals in a show ring; enjoy their fantastic food and drink made on site and see how they steward the land.
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The Newt is situated in 30 acres of gardens and hundreds of acres of woodland and is perfect to explore in the summer sunshine, with events often held on site. Entry is free for RHS members on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The South West's largest Flea Market returns to Shepton Mallet on Sunday 12 July. A very popular event with our guests, the Royal Bath and West Showground hosts this enormous market, with over 250 indoor and outdoor stalls.
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You will find furniture, garden statutory, art and retro gifts across the stalls. Alongside these, there's also food and drink and modern crafts and jewellery.
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Our local bus route from Sparkford takes you directly to the showground. To take a look at more ideas for antiques hunting in Somerset, see our page:
Enjoy historical-style days out at The Bishop's Palace and Gardens in Wells this July. There are plays being put on in open air in the gardens, where you're welcome to bring your own picnic to enjoy during the performances.
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2 July - The Pantaloons - Sense and Sensibility
20 July - The Lord Chamberlain's Men - Twelfth Night
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The Bishop's Palace is an RHS partner garden with 14 acres of walled gardens and grade 1 listed buildings to explore. You will find two of the wells of Wells in the Palace's grounds.
There's lots of interesting events across Somerset in July, from live music and historical talks to something a bit different:
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22 May - 12 September - Botanical Sculptures Exhibition by Jenny Pickford, The Bishop's Palace, Wells
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Friday 3 - Autofest, The Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet
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3 - 12 - Frome Festival
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Saturday 4 - Car Boot Sale, Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford
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Friday 24 - Tractors ‘N’ Tatties, Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford
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Tuesday 28 - Somerset Safari, The Newt, Castle Cary
Join us for a cycling holiday across Somerset and Dorset. As well as featuring in Practical Caravan's Top 100 for 2025, we were crowned the Best Site for Cycling holidays by Practical Caravan and Practical Motorhome Magazine in 2024.
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Our cycle routes page has ideas for pedal cycles, electric bikes and handcycle routes of varying degrees of difficulty.
The Frome festival has something for everyone this July! Running from 4 - 13 July, there's multiple events on every day. Some of our favourites on the calendare are:
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Bach by Candlelight
Carve a Green Man in Stone in a Day
Frome Open Art Trail
An Introduction to Bell Ringing
Book Binding Workshop
Peace Mandala with Tibetan Monks
Perfume Masterclass
Make Your Own Pet Gargoyle
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Join Hauser & Wirth in Bruton for their Summer Party! The Swiss-owned art gallery will be hosting two days full of stalls from local businesses, live music and seasonal food and drink from their Farm Shop and Italian restaurant, Da Costa.
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It's free to go, with the Angel Otero exhibition at the gallery and Oudolf field gardens open all day.
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Spend a day out at one of our 15 most local National Trust gardens, houses and places of interest. With so many National Trust members visiting us for the famous sights of Stourhead gardens and the country's longest "long gallery" at Montacute, run by the National Portrait Gallery, we'd also recommend many other days out to make the most of your membership.
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With Glastonbury Tor just a short drive away, we'd recommend climbing up for views across Somerset. Lytes Cary Manor is another popular NT house, and our nearest at just 5 miles away. The Grade 1 listed gardens and house of Tintinhull with a traditional arts and craft style garden. The Priest's House at Muchelney near Langport is a medieval hall dating from 1308 with connections to local author Thomas Hardy.
With Somerset regularly featuring in the major newspapers and travel magazines as a top destination for food and drink, there's more restaurants than ever to enjoy this spring.
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Enjoy locally grown food from local farms, with warmer weather in Spring enabling outdoor eating once again! You'll also find lots of great farm shops nearby, including one within a mile of our caravan park, which also accepts dogs in their cafe area.
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Take a look at our top tips for eating in Somerset:
As a Premier Parks top site, and a VisitEngland 5 star Touring and Camping Park and a Practical Caravan Top 100 site, we're also a past winner of the Gold Award winner of the South West Tourism Awards Best Camping and Caravanning Park in the South West region.
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We are open all year, with room for up to 26 touring units and 20 tents.
Enjoy a challenging walk around one of the most undiscovered parts of Somerset and take in some of the West Country's most important history. Nearby Cadbury Hillfort is known to be the gateway to the South West and is thought to have been occupied by King Arthur in 470-580 BC. Take a look at our history of Somerset and learn about the wonderful surroundings:
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