Source and limitations
This tool has no data of its own — only the Tourism Administration's file. Where it comes from, how often it changes, what is wrong with it, and what this site deliberately does not do.
Source
Tourism Administration, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, "All campgrounds in Taiwan", published on the government open-data platform (dataset 132066) as a CSV of about 370 KB, marked as updated quarterly. County governments survey campgrounds under the Campground Management Guidelines and file name, county, township, address, coordinates, "compliant / in violation of relevant regulations", the regulation violated, and whether the site is in an indigenous area. Source file version (server Last-Modified): 2026-04-28; fetched by this site: 2026-08-21.
The upstream of this file is the Tourism Administration's inventory platform. The Administration's own lookup site camp.tad.gov.tw shows live data — 220 lawful and 1,546 in violation when this page was checked — which differs from this CSV's 203 / 1,604; the difference is timing (counties keep updating statuses, the CSV is cut quarterly). For one site's status right now, the official site is authoritative; this site catches up at the next source release.
This site does three things: groups the free-text "regulation violated" field into filterable categories (original text kept), flags records that contradict themselves, and makes it searchable. Nothing is added, removed, reworded or supplemented from other sources.
Numbers
1,807 campgrounds in operation: 203 compliant (11.2%), 1,604 in violation (88.8%). The ratio has not moved in three years — the official figure in May 2023 was 1,843 sites with 1,608 in violation.
Problems in the data (kept as they are)
- The "regulation violated" field has 62 distinct spellings: the same act written differently, several acts in one cell, stray spaces and mixed-width characters. Categories are assigned by keyword; the original text is always shown.
- 58 records are marked as in violation with no act named. Results say so.
- 24 records are marked "compliant" yet have an act filled in. Shown as compliant, flagged as self-contradictory.
- 8 records say "under investigation".
- 8 records are conditional sentences ("no violation if no building work is involved") — not a definite finding; flagged.
- 246 records have no address and 68 no coordinates (absent from the map).
- "In an indigenous area": 1,048 records say yes (58.0%). Not used as a filter here; noted for the record.
- The "date established" field is polluted with values like "leisure farm" or "public campground" and is not used.
- Each record is a single point — no boundary, area or parcel number. The points themselves are accurate (checked against OpenStreetMap campsite centroids for 81 sites: median offset 58 m, 79% within 150 m) but a point says nothing about how large the site is.
What this site does not do
- It does not say "illegal" or "rogue"; it uses the government's wording, "in violation of relevant regulations".
- It does not infer "unsafe" from "violates the Regional Plan Act". Land use and safety are different questions.
- It does not draw site boundaries. A fixed-radius circle without area data would be an invented number.
- No phone numbers, websites or booking links. This is not a directory.
- No page per campground. 1,807 pages with one line of status each help nobody.
Errors
Wrong name, status, act or coordinates: report to the Tourism Administration or the county that filed it. When the source changes, so does this site. Correction requests for individual campgrounds cannot be handled here, because nothing here was written by this site.