Route · 4 days
Jurassic Coast: The Dorset Dead Zone
Ninety five miles of fossil coast without a single Supercharger on it: fill to 100% at a farm shop, cruise the coast to Lulworth, and refill in the shadow of Stonehenge.
Updated 3 Aug 2026 · Not driven yet
Your car, your numbers
Range is what your car honestly does on a full charge, not the brochure number (a used Model Y is ~260). The ~15% overnight draw comes from our own cold-morning testing; drop it if you run Camp Mode warm-weather lean. Every stop below recalculates as you type, and your numbers are remembered for other routes. Estimates assume steady A-road driving. If the maths goes red on a remote route, that's not a bug: it's the route showing you where to charge.
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Day-by-day itinerary
DAY 1Red cliffs into the dead zone
Supercharger
Exeter Supercharger (Darts Farm)
Darts Farm Village, Clyst St George, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 0QH
A farm shop with twelve stalls at Topsham. Stock the fridge in the food hall while the car fills; this is the Tebay of the south west.
Charge to 100%. Dorset has zero Superchargers, so this is the last plug until Stonehenge, two and a half days away.
SET OFF100%drive 11 miles
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Sidmouth
Regency seafront under rust red cliffs. Take the steps down Jacob's Ladder to the beach; the battery has barely noticed at 96%.
ARRIVE96%drive 9 miles
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Branscombe Mouth
Shingle cove with red wooden chalets under Hooken Cliffs. The Sea Shanty on the beach does a proper crab sandwich.
ARRIVE92%drive 12 miles
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The Cobb, Lyme Regis
Walk the great stone harbour arm, then ammonites in the Broad Street shop windows. Park at Holmbush at the top and drop down on foot.
ARRIVE88%drive 3 miles
Campsite
Wood Farm Caravan & Camping Park
Wood Farm Caravan & Camping Park, Axminster Road, Charmouth, Dorset, DT6 6BT
Terraced pitches above the Char valley with Golden Cap on the skyline. First night on Camp Mode at 87%; Charmouth and its fossil beach are a walk downhill.
ARRIVE87%WAKE72%⚡ 44 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£35–45/night est. · Exeter (Darts Farm)
DAY 2Golden Cap to Portland Bill
drive 5 miles
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Seatown and Golden Cap
The highest cliff on the south coast glows at nine in the morning. Fossil hunt along the beach or take the path up the Cap; the Anchor Inn opens at midday.
ARRIVE70%drive 5 miles
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West Bay
The Broadchurch cliff. East Beach sand, harbour chips, and a great orange sandstone wall you will recognise from television.
ARRIVE68%drive 9 miles
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Chesil Beach and Abbotsbury
Eighteen miles of graded shingle in a single glance. Climb to St Catherine's Chapel above Abbotsbury village for the full sweep of the bank.
ARRIVE64%drive 16 miles
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Portland Bill
Across the causeway with Chesil on your right the whole way. The lighthouse marks the tip; the tidal race beyond it is the Channel at its angriest.
ARRIVE58%drive 10 miles
Campsite
East Fleet Farm Touring Park
East Fleet Farm Touring Park, Fleet Lane, Chickerell, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 4DW
Pitches run down to the Fleet lagoon behind the Chesil bank. Swans for neighbours, and at 54% the three ideas are still holding.
ARRIVE54%WAKE39%⚡ 84 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£25–35/night est. · Exeter (Darts Farm)
DAY 3Durdle Door and the Stonehenge run
drive 18 miles
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Durdle Door
The arch before ten, while the car park is still half empty. Steep steps to the beach; swim if the sea is kind.
ARRIVE32%drive 2 miles
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Lulworth Cove
A perfect scallop of a bay five minutes on from Durdle. Coffee in the village, then face the map: the nearest Supercharger is 51 miles north.
ARRIVE32%drive 51 miles
Supercharger
Amesbury Supercharger
Mid Summer Place, Solstice Park, Amesbury, Salisbury, SP4 7SQ
Solstice Park services beside the A303. Sixteen stalls and, two miles up the road, the oldest tourist attraction in Britain.
Charge to 90%. You roll in at 12% after the long climb out of Dorset; this is the charge that saves the trip.
ARRIVE12%LEAVE90%drive 6 miles
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Stonehenge
The consolation prize for Dorset's empty map. Book the visitor centre ahead, or see the stones for nothing from the National Trust downland paths either side.
ARRIVE88%drive 50 miles
Campsite
Norden Farm Campsite
Norden Farm, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5DS
A working farm under the Purbeck ridge, with the Swanage steam railway whistling past the bottom field. In at 68% with the hard part done.
ARRIVE68%WAKE53%⚡ 72 min to Supercharger · charge first ↗£18–28/night est. · Winchester (Easton Lane)
DAY 4Corfe, Old Harry and the chain ferry out
drive 1 mile
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Corfe Castle
A thousand year old ruin filling the gap in the ridge. Fifteen minutes on foot from the pitch, or breakfast first under its walls at the Greyhound.
ARRIVE53%drive 6 miles
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Old Harry Rocks
Park at South Beach in Studland and walk the mile of clifftop to the chalk stacks. The Bankes Arms garden on the way back is the last pub of the trip.
ARRIVE51%drive 46 miles
Supercharger
Amesbury Supercharger
Mid Summer Place, Solstice Park, Amesbury, Salisbury, SP4 7SQ
The chain ferry hauls you over Poole Harbour mouth (£6.26 a car, cashless, pay online), then it is the Avon valley north to the A303.
Charge to 90% for the road home. You arrive at 33% with the dead zone behind you.
ARRIVE33%LEAVE90%
Frunk & FieldNotes
Not driven yet
We haven't driven this one yet. Nobody has slept on this route with our name on it. Notes, photos and hard-won guidance land here after the first trip.
ROUTE CHANGELOG
Driven it before? This is what has changed since.
- 3 Aug 2026
First published.
Drive it on the three ideas: arrive at camp with 30%+, charge to 90% before any dead zone, and charge midday, never evenings.