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Why Choose Sandyhills Bay

Why Choose Sandyhills Bay Holiday Park

A small, family-run park on the sand, with David Bellamy Gold Award credentials and almost 50 years of welcoming visitors to the Solway coast.

Sandyhills Bay Holiday Park is the simplest of our four parks to explain. It sits on the sand. It is small, deliberately low-key, and shaped by the tide. The Gillespie family has been welcoming visitors to the Solway coast for almost 50 years, and Sandyhills joined the group in 1983. Our wardens, Anna and Gordon, have been with us since 2015 and are the warm welcome on arrival. If your mental image of a good holiday involves crabbing buckets and salt on the car, or an oystercatcher strolling past the decking before anyone’s up, or a post-dinner walk on the Colvend Coast path with the light going over the Solway, you’re already most of the way to knowing if the park is for you. Here are five reasons Sandyhills regulars tend to give when they tell us why they keep coming back.

1. The Beach Is at Your Feet

Not “near the park” — at the park. Pitches and pods sit behind the dune line and short paths lead straight onto Sandyhills Bay. Wet swimsuits go on the line. Sandy kit lives in the porch.

2. Days Set By the Tide

Low water opens the causeway out to Rough Island and the rock pools down the Colvend Coast. High water is for swimming. Tide times on the fridge, everything else fits around them.

3. Small and Uncomplicated

No pool. No entertainment timetable. A small shop, a launderette and a heated shower block, and that’s the point. The bay doesn’t need supporting infrastructure.

4. The Clachan Inn on Foot

The local pub in Sandyhills village is a short walk from the park. The end-of-day plan tends to write itself.

5. A Family-Run Group with Four Parks

Part of the Gillespie Leisure Group. Four parks across Dumfries and Galloway, all family-run, all held to the same standards. Sandyhills is the beachfront one, with the David Bellamy Gold Award for conservation to its name.