Good evening. The legal tussle over the right to wild camp on Dartmoor has been going back and forth ever since Alexander Darwall, a wealthy landowner, tried to ban campers from using his estate without permission in 2022. The case is currently before the Supreme Court. But by seeking a ban, Darwell has put the spotlight on wider issues concerning our right to roam and our access to nature. Labour has said it will extend the right to wild camp in all national parks if elected. We can only hope.

While we wait, the Guardian’s Jane Dunford, a novice wild camper, sought a viable alternative through a website that connects campers with UK landowners willing to let people stay overnight. She camped deep in the woods in Sussex, but was just a 10-minute walk from her car. The next day, after enjoying the dawn chorus over a morning tea, she was back home at her desk in time for work an hour after packing up her tent. “As I start work,” she says, “I find it hard to believe my day began deep in a forest. I wish all mornings could start this way.”

That is the great joy of camping: it offers an opportunity to break free from the usual shackles of life, and our immersion in nature often gives us a sense of perspective about how we live.

Camping can also can lead to great adventures with our families, as TV presenter Steve Backshall discovered when he took his young children on a camper truck safari in the Lake District. Sort of like glamping on the go, the truck allowed them to explore different parts of the national park and try different activities while offering robust shelter from our unpredictable weather.

With fingers crossed that the sun does show itself for extended periods this summer, we round up some of the best new campsites and glampsites around the UK, from the South Downs to the Hebrides. Happy camping.