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Hou Camping opened in 1968 and is one of several campsites located on the Odder coast. It replaced the former campsite by the blue flag on the northern beach at Hou.
Hou Camping opened in 1968 and is one of several campsites located on the Odder coast. It replaced the former campsite by the blue flag on the northern beach at Hou.
Primitive outdoor life with a tent and a campfire was already popular in the 1930s, but, in the 1960s, the camping movement changed as it sought to adapt to higher income levels and the increase in private car ownership.
Today, private campsites are very conspicuous up and down the coast. On the coast between Hou and Saksild Beach, there are three sites as well as a naturist campsite near Kysing. They all have modern facilities to cater for today’s campers.
Continuing in a northerly direction from the campsite along the track road, you will see a neat row of small properties. They were built in the late 1700s and served as dwellings for farm workers or smallholders who supported themselves from small-scale agriculture supplemented by work as day labourers or by fishing. Here, the coastal trading points provided work for great numbers of day labourers when the boats had to be loaded or unloaded.
Most smallholdings with their plots of poor soil adjacent to the beach were given the rights to use the resources yielded by the beach such as seaweed, sand, and pebbles. Seaweed was used as a soil improver.