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Wilderness campsites (11 sites)

Wild, undeveloped camping · Spread through the park · Gonarezhou Conservation Trust

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Budget Inside the park Park-run (Gonarezhou Conservation Trust)

The core of what makes Gonarezhou special for overlanders: eleven wild sites with a bush loo and a firepit and nothing else. Carry your water, carry out your waste, and expect elephants rather than neighbours. Site allocations are agreed with the Trust at booking.

Why you'd pick it

  • Eleven wild sites for fully self-sufficient campers
  • True 4x4 country on the remote access tracks
  • The signature Gonarezhou experience for self-drivers

What's here

  • Campsite
  • Self-catering

Read from Wilderness campsites (11 sites)'s own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.

What the park charges on top

The rate above buys you a bed. Gonarezhou National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.

Park entryThe rate for guests staying in a park camp.
$15per person, per day
VehicleRoughly $5 to $10 a day depending on the vehicle.
$8per vehicle, per day

Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $114 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.

Sleeping inside the boundary is what keeps that low. $15 if you sleep in a park camp, against $25 a day for anyone driving in from outside.

The full fee schedule for Gonarezhou National Park

Rates

From $63 pppn (Local). Local $63, SADC $80, International $120 per person per night, minimum-charge basis, for 4 to 12 adults. Bush loo and firepit only.

What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.

Every figure on this page is in US dollars.

Rates are the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust's own published figures and operators' rate cards, gathered July 2026, quoted Local / SADC / International where the Trust publishes all three tiers. Accommodation rates generally exclude the daily conservation fee; confirm the total with the Trust when you book. Two names you may still find elsewhere, Mahenye Lodge and Senuko, could not be verified as currently operating: their websites no longer resolve and neither appears on any current operator list.

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