How we check.

Wrong camping information can leave you stranded. So every fact on Trek Eleven says where it came from and how fresh it is, and we are plain about what we have not checked.

  1. Every fact has a date

    Each fact keeps its source, who checked it and when. Facts older than 12 months fade and say “not checked since”. A place nobody has checked says so plainly, in words you can read at a glance.

  2. “Checked by Trek Eleven” means we went there

    Someone from Trek Eleven visits, records the facts fresh and adds the date. Only then does a place get the mark. Today that count is 0, and we show it on every “Camping near” page.

  3. “Still like this?” keeps it fresh

    When you are at a site, one tap tells us the page is still right, and the “last checked” date moves forward for the next camper. It only counts when you are actually there. If you are somewhere else, your tap is saved as “not confirmed on site” and earns nothing.

  4. Problems reach us straight away

    When a camper reports a problem, such as a wrong fee, it comes straight to us and we fix the listing. A closed gate or a washed-out track also shows on the site page at once as “reported by a camper, not confirmed”, so the next camper can take care. It changes only when someone has checked.

  5. When people disagree

    Campers do not always agree, and places change. So we keep every answer for each fact, such as showers, with its date. Newer answers count more than older ones, and answers from people who were at the site count more than answers from anyone else. When a later visitor says something different, the older answer counts for less, so an out-of-date majority cannot hold a page against honest new visitors. If answers agree, we show how many people said so and when. If they do not, we say people disagree, show both sides, and ask the next camper there. If a property owner tells us something, it is labelled “The owner says”, and campers who were there can still outvote it. Points are the same whether you agree or not. We never say a place is safe.

  6. If we do not know, we leave it out

    A missing fact stays missing. We never turn “unknown” into “no”, and we never fill a gap with a guess.

What “unverified suggestion” means

Someone added the place to OpenStreetMap, a free map that anyone can edit. Trek Eleven has not visited it. It may be closed, private, full or in a slightly different spot. We show it so you have somewhere to start, and we label it so you do not mistake it for a fact.

If you find an error, the best fix is in OpenStreetMap itself. Everyone who uses that map gains.

The labels you will see on “Camping near” pages

  • Not yet checked by Trek Eleven
  • Unverified suggestion from OpenStreetMap
  • Main Roads WA stopping place
  • Checked by Trek Eleven, with the date

The last label appears only after a Trek Eleven check. So far that is 0 places.

Where our information comes from.

Every source is licensed for the way we use it, and we keep its name, licence and date on record. Each layer stays apart, so you can always tell which is which.

Open map

OpenStreetMap

239 campsites and caravan parks in the South West, as recorded by volunteers. Shown as unverified suggestions in their own layer, never edited by us and never blended into our own checked list.

Licence: Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0). © OpenStreetMap contributors. Data as at 19 October 2026.

Official list

Main Roads WA

256 rest areas and roadhouses beside the state’s roads, from the Main Roads WA Road Stopping Places list (data dated 20 September 2024). Shown as supplied, and not checked by us. Main Roads provides it for information only, and it can change.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Source: Government of Western Australia, Main Roads WA.

Official alerts

Emergency WA

Warnings, incidents and fire bans from Emergency WA (the Department of Fire and Emergency Services). The app shows them in Recent updates and in each site's safety box. we show the official words exactly as published, word for word, with the source, the time and a link. We never rewrite, shorten or summarise a warning, and we never show an “all clear”. If we cannot reach the source, we say “unknown, check Emergency WA”.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0. © State of Western Australia acting through the Department of Fire and Emergency Services. For current information go to www.emergency.wa.gov.au.

Road alerts

Main Roads WA closures

Road closures and incidents from Main Roads WA, to sit beside the Emergency WA alerts. The same rule applies: the official words, with the source and the time, and “check Main Roads” when we cannot be sure.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: Government of Western Australia, Main Roads WA.

Our own checks

People who were there

Our own visits record the location, the fee and how you pay, toilets, water, showers, power, dogs, bins, phone signal, access for each type of rig, and a photo, each with the date. Campers’ “still like this?” taps and reports add to them.

Pictures and words

Photos and text

Photos on this website are free-licence pictures with the photographer named in the footer. In the app they will be our own, a contributor’s (with their agreement) or properly licensed. The words on our guides are our own, written from official pages that we link.

What we never do.

  • Copy another app’s or website’s listings, reviews, photos or text, or scrape them. Not even a little.
  • Invent a fact about a place.
  • Say a place is safe or open. We say what was reported, and when.
  • Let money change a ranking, a review or a “last checked” date. How we make money.

Check before you go

Roads, fire bans, park closures and weather change quickly. Trek Eleven does not show live closures on this website yet, so use the official sources as well.

Spotted a mistake?.

In the app, open the site and tap “Report a problem”. Or tell us here, and we will look into it.

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