České středohoří and the Terezín Region
Views from volcanic hills above the Elbe, baroque Litoměřice and solemn Terezín: a quiet three-day motorhome loop through the České středohoří uplands. The region is compact enough that the whole programme fits into short drives and you spend most of your time away from the wheel — under the towers of Házmburk, on the summit of Milešovka or on the town square with a glass of local wine. Terezín adds half a day that cannot be rushed: the Small Fortress and the Ghetto Museum are a memorial to the victims of Nazi persecution and they ask for time and silence. The season runs from April to October, when the castles and the chateau are open; by November most of the sites have closed.
You leave the D8 from Prague towards Libochovice and the first stop is Klapý below Házmburk. The motorhome stays on the central car park under the hill, which has a ticket machine; from there you walk up to the pair of towers — the white round one and the black square one — and to the view out over the Ohře valley. The castle is open as a self-guided circuit and its season ends with October. The afternoon belongs to Terezín: the Small Fortress, the National Cemetery and the Ghetto Museum are all part of the Terezín Memorial, a place of remembrance for the victims of Nazi persecution, so allow it plenty of time and treat it differently from an ordinary tourist stop. The single ticket is valid for four days and each site can be visited once, so you can come back the following day.
The highest hill in České středohoří carries a meteorological observatory with a lookout tower from 1905 on its summit, plus a mountain restaurant open mainly at weekends and on public holidays. You cannot drive up — leave the motorhome in Milešov or in Černčice and follow the marked trail, allowing an hour to an hour and a half on foot; parking space for a large vehicle in Milešov is scarce, so set off early in the morning. It is almost always windy up there: Milešovka is the windiest meteorological station in the country and has only a handful of calm days a year, so pack an extra layer even in summer. Keep the afternoon for Litoměřice: Mírové náměstí with the Renaissance house Kalich, the cathedral hill above it and the wine cellars that round the whole day off.
Start the morning in Ploskovice — a baroque chateau that the abdicated emperor Ferdinand I the Good had remodelled into his summer residence in the 1850s; it offers a tour of the interiors and of the underground grottoes, along with an eight-hectare park with a gloriette that you can enter every day from the morning. The interiors have their main season in summer, in September they close earlier and in October they open only at weekends and for shorter hours, so check your date in advance. Then take the road along the right bank of the Elbe through Libochovany and Sebuzín to Střekov; it is narrow and winding, but it leads straight through the river valley and rewards you with views of the water. The Gothic castle on its trachyte rock above the right bank closes for the winter, so after the tour you simply join the D8 at Ústí and head back to Prague.
Up to 3.5 t (most motorhomes sold today): in the Czech Republic an electronic vignette from edalnice.gov.cz or from the app is all you need. The annual one costs CZK 2,570 for 2026, the short-term options — one-day, ten-day and thirty-day — run to hundreds of crowns; for this trip you only need to cover the D8 between Prague and Lovosice, as no vignette is required on the minor roads inside the uplands. Over 3.5 t: the vignette does not apply to you, the vehicle falls under the electronic toll system (mytocz.eu) — you need to register and fit an on-board unit and you pay per kilometre driven, with the rate set by vehicle category, number of axles and emission class; if your vehicle does not clearly fall under the system, have its classification confirmed in advance at a contact point. There is no toll mountain road, tunnel or ferry on the route, so the only other item in the budget is admission to the sights — in Terezín the single ticket costs CZK 310, reduced CZK 240 and family CZK 630.
Rekreační středisko a kemp Opárno, Malé Žernoseky — an enclosed site in the Opárno valley by the Milešovský potok stream; motorhome CZK 260 a day, electric hook-up CZK 130 a day · Kemp Úštěk u jezera Chmelař, Úštěk — a municipal campsite by a natural swimming lake, season roughly from mid-April to the end of October; outside the main season you have to book several days ahead · Marina Kemp Valtířov, Valtířov u Velkého Března — the grounds of a former boatyard right on the Elbe, with zones set aside for motorhomes and caravans, one quieter and one closer to the facilities
Mírové náměstí in Litoměřice is a pedestrian zone with paid parking for cars — do not drive in with a motorhome, leave it in a car park on the edge of town or stay at the campsite and walk into the centre. The whole area lies within the České středohoří Protected Landscape Area, where camping and open fires outside designated places are prohibited, so the night belongs at a campsite, not at the foot of a hill. For an October date, count on some campsites already running a reduced service and on having to arrange your arrival by phone.
Take on water and empty the cassette at the Opárno campsite in Malé Žernoseky — it lies roughly halfway between Házmburk and Milešovka, which makes it a good base for both nights; check with the staff when booking that the chemical disposal point is available. Do not count on a public disposal point in Litoměřice or in Terezín. If you spend the second night closer to Střekov, arrange the same at the Marina Kemp Valtířov reception.
Adria Twin
The route rests on the narrow road along the right bank of the Elbe between Litoměřice and Střekov and on parking in villages such as Klapý or Milešov, where there is little room for a large vehicle — in the van-based Twin you will park even where an A-class simply does not fit. The legs are short and you sleep at campsites, so a compact van carries exactly the equipment three days call for.
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