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 Refuges will normally have a room which can be used as a bothy when the refuge is closed

 Camping is not permitted in the vicinity of most manned refuges

 Many of the refuges don’t have their own website, but use a regional website which operates central booking (see Appendix D)

Camping

West summit, Tuca d’Angliós, from Estany Cap de Llauset (Stage 22)

In this guide the American term campground has been used for commercial or organised campsites, to distinguish them for wilderness campsites.

Car-camping used to be widespread alongside roads and dirt roads with visitors setting up camps, often for weeks at a time, in many of the most beautiful places in the mountains or around the coast. To prevent this, a law was passed to ban wild camping and this law is enforced by the police. As is often the case laws have unintended consequences and this law, intended to prevent car-camping and the setting up of long-term camps, also applied to backpackers.

The compromise, in practice, is that backpackers are allowed to bivouac for one night, with or without a small tent, well away from roads and habitation. This exception to the law has been defined in some areas such as in the ‘Parc Natural’ in Catalonia, where wild camping is permitted between 8pm and 8am.