Glastonbury Festival Camping and Glamping: The Options Explained

The first thing to know about camping at Glastonbury Festival is that the festival is not in Glastonbury. It takes place at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton, about six miles east of the town and close to Shepton Mallet. The second is that a festival ticket already includes camping. This guide explains the options, from pitching in the festival fields to the official pre-erected villages and independent glamping nearby, and lists campsites in the area for a stay outside festival week. The festival took a fallow year in 2026, as it does periodically to rest the farm, and is due to return in 2027.

Camping inside the festival

A standard festival ticket lets you pitch a tent in any of the public camping fields at no extra cost. The fields have very different characters: some are close to the main stages and busy around the clock, others are further out and quieter, and there are dedicated family fields. Pitches are not reserved, so the earlier you arrive on the Wednesday the more choice you have. Everything has to be carried in from the car parks or bus drop-off, which is the best argument for packing light.

Campervans and caravans

Live-in vehicles are not allowed in the main camping fields. They go in separate campervan fields outside the fence, which need their own ticket bought in addition to festival tickets for everyone in the vehicle.

Official pre-erected camping

The festival runs its own pre-erected tent villages on the edge of the site, Worthy View and Sticklinch. You arrive to a tent that is already up, with its own toilets, showers and reception. These are sold through the festival as an add-on to a festival ticket and are the only pre-pitched options run by the festival itself.

Independent glamping near the site

A number of independent operators set up glamping fields on neighbouring farmland for festival week, offering anything from bell tents to much grander structures, often with shuttle transport to the gates. They are not run by the festival, their standards and prices vary widely, and none of them includes a festival ticket: you still need to buy that separately, and tickets sell out long before most glamping does. Check exactly how far the field is from a pedestrian gate and how you will get there and back at night.

Campsites near Worthy Farm

Outside festival week this is a quiet, attractive corner of Somerset with plenty of ordinary campsites. During the festival many of them are fully booked, run festival-only packages or close to general bookings, so always ask the site directly. All of these are on our Glastonbury camping page.

Closest to the festival site

The Bath and West Showground Campsite, a few miles away near Shepton Mallet, takes tents, caravans and motorhomes, accepts dogs, and is rated 4.4 from over 3,100 Google reviews. Greenacres Camping at North Wootton is a family campsite with electric hook-ups where campfires are allowed, rated 4.8. Croscombe Camping takes tents and has glamping, and The Lazy Shepherd is the nearest of all to Pilton.

Glastonbury and Wells

The Old Oaks Touring Park near Glastonbury is rated 4.9 from over 1,000 reviews and takes tents, caravans and motorhomes, with glamping, electric hook-ups and dogs welcome. Tall Trees Glamping has a perfect 5.0 from 150 reviews and accepts dogs. Towards Wells, The Lorax Patch is a small glamping site that allows campfires, Wells Touring Park takes caravans and motorhomes, and Oakhill Camping and Caravanning and Pine Tree Farm both take tents and tourers and welcome dogs.

South and east of the site

Batcombe Vale Campsite sits in a secluded valley with electric hook-ups; Orchard Farm at Butleigh combines a campsite with glamping and accepts dogs; and Hadspen Glamping near Castle Cary, the nearest mainline railway station to the festival, is rated 5.0.

Visiting when the festival is not on

The area repays a visit in its own right. Glastonbury has the Tor and the abbey ruins, Wells is England's smallest city, with one of its finest cathedrals, and Shepton Mallet, Frome and Castle Cary are all good small-town bases. For more ideas see our guides to summer staycations, glamping for first-timers and eco-friendly staycations.