Your choice of where to camp can make a big difference to your enjoyment of camping. It could be a quiet and remote pitch on a mountain or a pitch on a well-equipped and busy camp site close to civilization. If you are new to camping, it's probably best not to camp anywhere too remote. Once you are more experienced, however, this can be one of the most enjoyable types of camping. The newcomer to camping would be better off camping at a well-equipped site with facilities like hot showers, toilets, drying rooms (for wet gear) etc.
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Where To Pitch Your Tent?
On some commercial camp sites you are often told exactly where to pitch your tent, so you won't have to worry about the best place to put your tent. Other sites will tell you to pitch where you want to. For safety reasons it's best not to pitch tents too close together. If there was a fire, it could spread quickly from tent to tent where they are closely pitched. A minimum of about 6 paces should be left between tents for this reason.
Avoid pitching the tent on low areas of the site, if it rains heavily these are the first places to flood.
Keep away from underneath tree canopies if possible, as they can be dangerous in thunder storms and also drip sticky sap on your tent. Also, after rain the tree will continue to drip for a long time onto your tent.
Try to get some shelter around the tent by pitching near to walls or similar if it's likely to be windy, the tent will have a better chance of staying up in the wind that way.
If it's likely to be hot, you could look for a shaded part of the site. Some tent get pretty hot inside in sunny weather so the shade will really help to keep you cooler.
If you don't have your own chemical toilet, you'll need to be fairly close to the camp site toilets but not so close that you have the sound of people constantly passing your tent. If the site has a children's play area, pitching near to it can be a very good idea if you have children, or a very bad idea if you don't! Parents can conveniently watch younger children while they play, but if you don't like the sound (noise?!) of children playing, the play area would be best avoided.