Here is the whole inventory, before the explanation.
| Country | Free places mapped | Dedicated map page |
|---|---|---|
| France | 2,066 | Yes |
| Germany | 1,041 | No |
| Spain | 717 | Yes |
| Denmark | 537 | Yes |
| Italy | 379 | No |
| United States | 60 | Yes |
Nothing outside that table is on the map. If your route crosses it, plan those nights from another source.
What each row actually means
France, 2,066 free places, 2,018 of them named. The strongest layer here,
and six French regions have their own written page. It comes from OpenStreetMap
filtered to fee=no, which makes it a partial view: plenty of communal aires
that a tourism authority lists on DATAtourisme are not in it. Check a
departmental tourist office site as well as this map before you fix a route.
How to read the map is covered in
free aires in France.
Germany, 1,041 free places. The second largest layer here. Use the country filter on the whole map to isolate them, then open each pin and read the source it came from, because there is no written German context here yet.
Spain, 717 places, 609 named. Treat these as a starting point rather than an answer. Spain publishes no national open dataset of the kind France and the United States do, and Spanish records rarely link to an official municipal page, so many of them are a coordinate and a name. Search the town’s ayuntamiento site before you count on a night there. The Spain page is the more useful half, because it covers what Spanish law actually allows.
Denmark, 537 places, 350 named. With one thing to know before you plan. The Danish shelter network, purpose-built free wooden shelters in state forests, is not on this map, and it is the best free sleeping arrangement in the country. You find and book those through Naturstyrelsen, and the Denmark page tells you where. Three Danish regions have written pages.
Italy, 379 free places. Same as Germany: filter them on the whole map and read each pin’s source, because there is no written Italian context here yet.
United States, 60 records across 11 states. Read that number carefully, because only 15 of the 60 are actual campgrounds. The rest are facilities: trailheads, staging areas, wilderness area polygons. There is no BLM layer here either, and BLM land is what most people mean by American free camping, so plan a western trip from recreation.gov and the BLM’s own site. The United States page goes into it at more length.
Countries not on this map
The United Kingdom and Ireland. Portugal. Norway, Sweden and Finland. The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland. Croatia, Greece, Poland. All of central and eastern Europe.
If your route crosses any of them, plan those nights from the local tourist office and the posted signs, and expect the rules to change at every border.
Two of those are worth a sentence each, because people look for them specifically.
Ireland. There is nothing here for Ireland, and any Irish link in the navigation goes nowhere. Plan that leg from another source.
Scotland. Different reason. Scotland is rules content here rather than a pin layer, because the statutory access right covers lightweight camping from a tent carried on foot and does not cover a campervan. A map of Scottish free camping spots would therefore be either a map of paid council and forestry car parks or a map of places the law does not permit you to sleep in a vehicle. We read what the Outdoor Access Code allows before you go, and the NC500 reality check if that is your route.
Countries on the map with no written page
The whole map covers more countries than this site has written up. Germany and Italy are the current gap: pins with sources and verification dates, no written context. Use the country filter to isolate them, then open each pin and read the source it came from, because that source is doing all the work a written page would otherwise do.
Why there is no PDF
There is no printable PDF, and a printed one would work against you anyway. Here is what a printed map could and could not tell you.
It could contain a country overview with the clusters marked, the local vocabulary, the stay-limit conventions, the rules summary with its citation and its verification date, and the service-point conventions. That is the part of the picture that is stable enough to survive being printed.
It could not contain anything that changes. A mayor can close an aire by arrêté. A council can change a tariff. A seasonal gate opens in April. A sheet printed in March and used in September tells you confidently about a world that has moved.
Download the map area in your navigation app before you lose signal, and treat these pages as the reading you do before you leave. Every record carries the date it was last checked and a link to its source, which is exactly what a printout cannot.
Wild camping is not on any of these maps
Every pin is somewhere a named body set aside for the purpose: a commune, a Gemeinde, a comune, a municipality, a federal agency. Wild camping is a rules question, so read the rules page for the country you are in rather than looking for a pin. Published informal spots get busy, then get complaints, then get a barrier, and in most of Europe they are a map reference for something the law does not permit.
If you are new to the distinction, that is what wild camping vs free camping vs aires is for, and free camping in Europe is the country-level overview.