Car Parks in Pembrokeshire

Parking is the thing most likely to spoil a day here. The beach car parks are small, most are pay and display, and in July and August the popular ones — Whitesands, Stackpole Quay for Barafundle, Broad Haven, Newgale — are full by mid-morning.

Three rules that save a lot of driving. Go early or go late, before ten or after four. Carry coins as well as a card, because signal is poor at several beaches and app-only payment can fail. And don't park on the lanes: they're single-track with passing places, and blocking one is a real problem for farm traffic and emergency vehicles.

Where a car park's charge is on record we show it, but tariffs change every season. Treat it as a guide and read the sign when you get there. Pembrokeshire County Council publishes current tariffs for its own car parks, and the National Trust runs several of the coastal ones, free to members.