Kelpies car park, Falkirk

haggislassie

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Hi Folks.

My 1st post on this forum but it is not all positive but feel you should be made aware!!

As the weather was to be nice for a few days, I decided on Tuesday morning to go away solo (had faithful hound with me, though) in my M/H and also try wild camping. My 1st stop was the Falkirk Wheel but it became very windy and, after speaking to fellow M/Homers, who had parked up, they said go to Kelpies, that is where we are headed now.
So, got myself there and settled in for a quiet night, or so I thought!

By 8pm a large group of cars, driven by youngsters, had arrived and proceeded to race round the car park, do doughnuts on the parking spaces, scream, shout, play loud music and cause general mayhem!! This went on till 2am!!

The couple who had said to go there apologised to me the next morning, but I said its certainly not your fault.

They left a whole load of rubbish behind them and the Police patrolled the car park at 9am the next morning????

Needless to say, I won't go there again and my poor dog was very upset, too.

NOW a very positive note for my next port-of-call, which was Limekilns, ah, perfection! Lovely village, smashing pub (Ships Inn) and very friendly Fifers. Will defo go back there.

Cheers, for now, and here's to more adventures.
Elaine
 
Go to the smaller carpark it's too small for their handbrake turns personally been there often and they don't actually bother me last time I was there they were gone by 10 pm too cold for them.
 
I've stopped at The Kelpies and shared the car park with the local car loving community, but they didn't threaten me and, to be honest, it is their patch far more than it's ours. They all went home around 11PM. Live and let live.
 
P1080899.jpgP1080901.jpgP1080931.jpgP1080942.jpgP1080943.jpgP1080945.jpgWe spent Monday night on the Kelpies car park, must say they should be seen at night as well as daylight. We stayed in the small section of the first carpark that you come to off the roundabout, not on the large shale one nearest the Kelpies. A little coming and going by youths but no antisocial behaviour on that car park at all and had a good night.
 
A few of us stayed at the Kelpies recently, in the smaller car park. When we went to ask about staying, they did warn us about the racers but told us, as Annie has said, that they don't bother with the little car park because it's too small for their fun. We had a great night in a really lovely spot.
 
Fazerloz said:
View attachment 49904View attachment 49905View attachment 49906View attachment 49907View attachment 49908View attachment 49909We spent Monday night on the Kelpies car park, must say they should be seen at night as well as daylight. We stayed in the small section of the first carpark that you come to off the roundabout, not on the large shale one nearest the Kelpies. A little coming and going by youths but no antisocial behaviour on that car park at all and had a good night.
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Great photos ,fantastic bit of engineering as well as the art side of it.
 
haggislassie said:
Hi Folks.

My 1st post on this forum but it is not all positive but feel you should be made aware!!

As the weather was to be nice for a few days, I decided on Tuesday morning to go away solo (had faithful hound with me, though) in my M/H and also try wild camping. My 1st stop was the Falkirk Wheel but it became very windy and, after speaking to fellow M/Homers, who had parked up, they said go to Kelpies, that is where we are headed now.
So, got myself there and settled in for a quiet night, or so I thought!

By 8pm a large group of cars, driven by youngsters, had arrived and proceeded to race round the car park, do doughnuts on the parking spaces, scream, shout, play loud music and cause general mayhem!! This went on till 2am!!

The couple who had said to go there apologised to me the next morning, but I said its certainly not your fault.

They left a whole load of rubbish behind them and the Police patrolled the car park at 9am the next morning????

Needless to say, I won't go there again and my poor dog was very upset, too.

NOW a very positive note for my next port-of-call, which was Limekilns, ah, perfection! Lovely village, smashing pub (Ships Inn) and very friendly Fifers. Will defo go back there.

Cheers, for now, and here's to more adventures.
Elaine
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Pmd you about Lanark Elaine.
 
antiquesam said:
I've stopped at The Kelpies and shared the car park with the local car loving community, but they didn't threaten me and, to be honest, it is their patch far more than it's ours. They all went home around 11PM. Live and let live.
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You make a valid point buddy. When you park anywhere and cars etc are an issue, just try to remember they probably frequent the place every night, or at least more often than you do. Seems a bit short sighted to expect them all to stay away just cos you pole up for the night. Not saying its cool having all the noise all night but just another opinion....:drive::camper::goodnight::sleep-027:
 
runnach said:
If they want to race, dick around, they do have the option of Knockhill race track, this way, no one has there peace and quiet disturbed.
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And no doubt Knockhill will charge accordingly! Surely you can also think of a nearby campsite, where you could enjoy a peaceful stress free night too? But the charge maybe goes against what we stand for?? And the boy racers never seem to complain about motorhomers blocking up their car parks, does that mean they're more tolerant than we are of other peoples leisure time activities?...:cheers::cool1::camper::rolleyes2:
 
The laird said:
Great photos ,fantastic bit of engineering as well as the art side of it.
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Must say I was impressed with them. Just a pity the Falkirk wheel was not working. We don't seem to get up that way oft enough. We did the NC500 over the Christmas / New Year period.
 
GreggBear said:
And no doubt Knockhill will charge accordingly! Surely you can also think of a nearby campsite, where you could enjoy a peaceful stress free night too? But the charge maybe goes against what we stand for?? And the boy racers never seem to complain about motorhomers blocking up their car parks, does that mean they're more tolerant than we are of other peoples leisure time activities?...:cheers::cool1::camper::rolleyes2:
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Seriously???

are you ACTUALLY suggesting that we should be more tolerant of a bunch of scroaty no marks driving like idiots???
Hell why not open it up and sling some needles into the mix too...
No doubt we should as a society of folks shooting up in public places too....
Sadly standards AND expectations of decent human behaviour seem to be at an all time low.
 
The Kelpies are definitely on my list for visiting this year when we go to Scotland. Thanks for the advice about what car park to use!
 
kernowprickles said:
The Kelpies are definitely on my list for visiting this year when we go to Scotland. Thanks for the advice about what car park to use!
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Don't forget a boat ride on the amazing Falkirk Wheel too, if you haven't already done it... great day out
 
We did that in 2011, amazing, and I have a video of it as well. Really good experience, and a great place for a day out.
 
mistericeman said:
Seriously???

are you ACTUALLY suggesting that we should be more tolerant of a bunch of scroaty no marks driving like idiots???
Hell why not open it up and sling some needles into the mix too...
No doubt we should as a society of folks shooting up in public places too....
Sadly standards AND expectations of decent human behaviour seem to be at an all time low.
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Have you been to the Kelpies and seen these cars some of these young lads have spent an awful lot of money and don't want to damage their pride and joy they just want to show off to each other what they have done a bit like us with our campers and Motorhomes we want councils to tolerate us but we don't want to tolerate others just mean spirited if you ask me.
 
As I have said before about the Kelpies 'boy racers' get out of your van and talk to these lads, no don't lay down the law to them. They might have suggested you go to the small car park as it would be noisy is the large one. These lads are not monsters and I doubt no more anti social than we were at that age.
 
campervanannie said:
Have you been to the Kelpies and seen these cars some of these young lads have spent an awful lot of money and don't want to damage their pride and joy they just want to show off to each other what they have done a bit like us with our campers and Motorhomes we want councils to tolerate us but we don't want to tolerate others just mean spirited if you ask me.
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I'll agree with you the first time that I hear of a bunch of motor home owners organising and taking part in a drifting competition around parked up modded cars .....

I don't think for a second that there would be any complaints IF they just turned up and parked up after fitting a set of silver screens for the night ....(providing they didnt fire a genny up OR dump grey waste .
For god's sake there is a world of difference between the two scenarios .
 
runnach said:
Annie, if you go back over OP, you will read they were not showing off, their pride and joy. What ever way you want to paint it up, it is anti social behaviour. The day will come, when one of these nerds, loses control of their pride and joy and, damage a bystander vehicle, or worse still, injure an individual. For the record, I have been at the receiving end of nerd driving, which caused lots of damage to my garden ground and, thousands of pounds of damage, there is no need for these idiots in our society.
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It appears to me that you are taring them all with the same brush a bit like when one camper empties their grey or black waste and then we are up in arms as we all get banned, I have got out of my van at Kelpies and spoke to these lads and some of them are actually quite nice lads and yes there is always going to be the aresole that runs round in a beat up old banger that he paid £50 for and has no tax or insurance I think it is not the case with the lads at the Kelpies.
 
mistericeman said:
Seriously???

are you ACTUALLY suggesting that we should be more tolerant of a bunch of scroaty no marks driving like idiots???
Hell why not open it up and sling some needles into the mix too...
No doubt we should as a society of folks shooting up in public places too....
Sadly standards AND expectations of decent human behaviour seem to be at an all time low.
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You can't be serious, can you?
 
runnach said:
If they want to race, dick around, they do have the option of Knockhill race track, this way, no one has there peace and quiet disturbed.
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I'm not on their side buuut, we stopover there for free, they knockhill there for free, no difference. We're just quieter.
 
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