hinterland.camp
The great outdoors made bookable.
A booking platform for sites, stays and cabins that earn the word "wild." Built for people who plan trips like they pack a backpack — light, deliberate, with the right tools.
Hinterland is a love letter to the outdoors with a checkout flow attached. It connects independent hosts of cabins, treehouses, fire-towers and pitch-your-tent meadows to the people who would rather sleep under stars than under chandeliers.
Hinterland was built to connect people with nature and make the close surroundings fun to explore. It keeps fees low, surfaces real photos in real weather, and treats availability like a serious calendar — not a marketing surface.
Most travel apps want you online. We want you outside, and we want our app to get out of the way the moment you've booked.
— Workbench notes
The small
stuff.
The decisions you don't see in screenshots — but feel in the using.
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Catalogue at scale
3,000+ private camps and cabins across Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Austria. Filterable by what actually matters on the ground — water access, dogs welcome, vineyard locations, off-grid pitches.
- 02
Road Trip Planner
Drop in a route and get the most beautiful camps and cabins along the way. Pre-built itineraries for Italian road trips and Swedish camping expeditions live alongside your own.
- 03
Instant book or request
Hosts choose between instant-book and booking-request flows; reservations live under "My trips" for both sides of the marketplace, so the conversation has a calendar attached.
- 04
Native apps for the trail
iOS and Android companions, so the marketplace fits in a pocket once you're on the road and the laptop is back home.
Built with
Boring tech, used carefully. The sharp edges go in the design, not the stack.