This is a great festival. Fun events and good music. You can choose to come up for the day or for the weekend. We chose to camp out for the weekend. Their Facebook page gave the details, if you buy the weekend pass you can come as early as Thursday. My fiancée and I had to work so we arrived midday Friday. When we arrived the place already looked packed. I asked the lady taking the tickets if they had been busy, her response was, yeah we’ve had people parking their campers since Monday. Monday? How do you get in on Monday when the tickets say Thursday is the earliest. So of course due to the early birds all the shaded spots in the main field were taken. We drove to the second field and found a decent spot to set up camp. The odd part is the camping price is the same whether you bring a tent or 6 campers. There is also no rules about how close someone can set up camp next to you. After our camp was set up we decided to explore, since the main field was full we had to trek back to the area with all the events, this entailed walking down the wrong way of a «one way» dirt road. But not only that the one way sign is apparently only for cars and trucks, if you brought a four wheeler or side by side you could go the opposite way. With traffic flowing both ways it gave very little room for pedestrians or error. The most concerning part of the walk was how many people had a beer can in their hand while driving their off road vehicles down this narrow road. Once we arrived at the main area we watched some live bands and watched people fall off the mechanical bull, which was pretty entertaining. We decided around 9 to head back to our site to find someone had crammed their tent between ours and the one we had assumed would be our neighbors. Herald and his crew have some pretty basic rules, no drinking if you’re under 21 and no use of recreational vehicles after 7pm. But there are some other basic rules he seemed to have overlooked, such as no drinking and driving. His security team is a joke, it’s more like a few of his family members that have flashlights, there is no medical team on property. With 2500 people drinking, driving, in the sun all day, there is a good chance someone is going to get hurt and they do not seem to be prepared for that. The second day they had Olympics style events which were fun to watch and my fiancée actually took the gold in bobbing for pig knuckles! Great job Rebecca W. If we go again I’m hoping to see medical staff and some real police or some real security. I would probably only go for the day because at night the noise level is just too high to get any rest. I hope Herald continues to be successful at these events but I’m nervous his laid back business plan may be the wrong way to go.
