Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain

This place gets a bad rap on here. This is how you have to prepare for a show there. Get there early. No later than an hour after the gates open. Bring chairs. Food. Drinks. Plastic cups. A garbage bag. Shoes. No flip flop bullshit. A hoodie. A total change of clothes. Hang out in the parking lot as long as you possibly can. Bring an unopened water in with you. Cough up the dough for a seat or a pit spot. After the show have a seat. Turn some music up and hang out. Do that for about 3 hours. Then cruise right out. People get all bent out of shape about traffic. Yeah. There’s 1 road and 20,000 people. Go mingle with people and relax.

Great venue; horrible parking.
I came here for the Luke Bryan — Kick up the Dust tour. I’m not a big Country fan, the wife is, but they definitely put on a great show, but this review is for the venue.
There’s a long winding uphill road that leads to the venue on top. When you get to the top there’s three parking lots. I noticed the lot closest to the venue was open so naturally we parked there. This was a big mistake, which I’ll explain later on.
After we went through the gates, I had to get a drink. There really isn’t a whole lot for food and most of the drink stands have caned domestic beer. However, there is one stand that at the far corner closest to the tent that has cocktails and craft beer, make sure you go to this one; I ended up drinking Lagunitas IPA all night.
The venue itself has a permanent open tent structure with seating and behind the tent is lawn seating. I don’t do lawn seating, so when I purchased the tickets I paid extra for seating, which was a helava lot more comfortable than sitting on the ground.
So here’s where it all went downhill… (no pun intended) As soon as the concert was over, we left and went straight to our car. We pulled out of our parking spot drove maybe 50 feet and stayed in the same parking spot for two and a half hours, do you know what that’s like sitting two and a half hours in your car not moving? It sucks.
If you go here do yourself a favor and park far as possible from the venue, getting out fast is worth the walk.
They clearly need a better exit statagy for the lots. I don’t see myself coming back here.

This is the worst place for a concert. Went last night to see Luke Bryan. They over crowd the place by at least 1000 people just for the $$. Can u say GREED? You wait on the highway for 2 hours then u have to park in the baseball field and then they bus you and that takes another hour. Then u walk 2 miles. Terrible terrible. I’m handicapped !!! NEVER Again.

this is the absolute worst concert venue I’ve ever been to. «arrived» at the location at 7… was finally parked, bussed, and got to the lawn at 9pm. so inefficient, staff stands around and does nothing, no direction, never will come back here I won’t come again if it’s a free ticket. I live an hour away, left Allentown at 5 and got to the actual concert area 4 hours later. RIDICULOUS DO NOT EVEN TRY

I recently attended the Kid Rock concert at the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain, and it was my first time at the venue.
The concert was scheduled to start at 6:45 PM, so we arrived at 2 PM to tailgate, which is when the parking lot opened. To our surprise parking was free. Even though it was a horribly rainy day, there were still plenty of other people tailgating.
We went into the concert at 8 PM, just in time to catch the end of the opener and grab a few beers. The venue is pretty cool, as you are surrounded by nature. Merchandise was avaliable when you first walked in, additionally there were numerous drink and food vendors. As usual, everything was a little over priced.
The entire day and concert it poured rain, so the lawn was a little muddy. Additionally there were NO overhangs or areas for lawn tickets– so if it is raining wear a poncho and rainboots. The venue did have lawn seats for rent, and you can bring in your own.
Getting out of the parking lot was a disaster. It took over an hour to go from our parking spot to the main road– brutal.

Just got back from my first concert at The Pavilion this weekend. Coming 2 hours from Philly, we weren’t sure what to expect. I’d say a pretty even split of pros and cons.
–Free parking!
–Friendly staff
–Cool venue — the tent really gives it a woodsy, festivalesque type feel
–Great sound system — we saw Kid Rock, who is one of the loudest and proudest rockers, and needs the best
–It’s virtually in the middle of nowhere
–It took FOREVER to get out of the parking lot
–The literal mud pit at the lawn entrance was crazy
I’m not sure if I’d drive 2 hours again to see any old concert, but with Kid Rock’s $ 20 ticket and the chance to hang out with NE PA’s rowdiest tailgaters in the pouring rain, The Pavilion was the perfect place. Definitely ideal for my kind of rough around the edges type crowd.

This place is expensive, hard to get to and extremely packed. The traffic is somewhat unbearable as well.

Acoustically this venue is outstanding. My wife and I had seats 1 row past the tent so if it had rained we would’ve gotten wet but I’ve seen shows in the rain. Yeah the prices for food and drink were ridiculously overpriced but I don’t go to shows to eat and drink I go for the show. Everything moved at an even pace there wasn’t a lag between bands. We loved seeing Def Leppard !
My only complaint would be the parking and the traffic confusion leading to the show. There is a baseball field along Montage Mountain Road and if you are going there for the first time like we were it would’ve been better organized if they set up lanes with signs that say this way to the game, this way to the concert. We get to the parking and there aren’t any markings to give you an idea as to where to find your car after the show. The walking the mile to the show, the distance not a problem but the rocks I had to walk on to get there, put some sidewalks or a paved pathway or something. We had a heck of a time finding our car after the show as well, and we were both sober. Well lit parking but needs row signs.

Went with a group of friends to the Toyota Pavilion for Froggy Fest over the weekend. This is my 4^th time watching a concert at this venue. So I felt I knew what to expect and haven’t had any totally terrible experiences, until now.
The concert was to feature Dierks Bentley, Chris Young, Chase Rice, John Pardy, Maggie Rose and a few other ‘opening acts’. It was scheduled to start at 4:00pm but the radio (FROGGY) kept announcing the doors would open at 3:00.
At 2:30, we began to drive up the hill towards the pavilion and were quickly directed to park at the Baseball Field instead of the usual parking by the venue. They were apparently busing people from the ball field up to the venue. However, they were only running 4 buses for thousands of people waiting in the blazing heat and long lines for a ride. Clearly someone didn’t think this out. It was just before 4:00 when we were finally dropped off, about a half mile from the gate to even enter the venue.
After waiting in more long lines for the restroom, we were nearly 30 minutes late. Luckily this disorganized mess still hadn’t really kicked off. We arrived just in time to hear Maggie Rose’s last song. Nearly 40 minutes later the next act went on. Between every act there was 30 minute-​an hour wait!!! It was ridiculous. Not to mention you couldn’t hear anything at all from the lawn. It just sounded like faint music in the background.
That’s not even the worst part. After paying $ 14:00-$ 15.00 for a few 20 oz beers during the concert… they eventually ran out of beer. I’m not joking. This venue ran out of beer by 8:00pm. Almost every stand in the place also sold out of water. This event was a crazy cluster. Borderline awful.
We ended up leaving during Dierk’s 2^nd song. The whole reason I purchased tickets was obviously to hear the headliner. But, since this event was a on a Sunday and running so darn late we had to leave. Plus we had no idea where to catch the buses to get back to our vehicle.
I won’t be back here for a long time and I’m 99% sure you won’t see me at another Froggy Fest for awhile.

Came for Peach Music Festival, the event sucks. You buy your ticket and then you show up and they get you for parking and camping. $ 150 ticket quickly turns into $ 225 ticket. Parking is like 5 miles away. If you’re camping for Peach you have to carry all your stuff for miles to your campsite which is on the side of a mountain with a 15% grade large rocks over every inch of ground. Every morning you wake up in a pile with all your stuff at the bottom of your tent with a sore back from sleeping on rocks. Not to mention the livenation staff that work the event are complete jerks. I’ve been to about 20 festies but this is one I’ll never go back to.

I have seen over 20 concerts here over the years… The venue has a lot of good about it and very little bad if you know some basics.
1. If you want to park close, get there EARLY.
2. If you don’t want to wait in traffic after the show, leave at 10:45 instead of 11.
3. Security and cops won’t harrass you if you are acting fine.
4. Buy your tickets at the box office as it is cheaper than online.
Also, to the person who posted the picture of a rocky hill. They decided to walk that way. The venue has an entrance from both parking areas, but for some reason they decided to risk a fall. When parked at Gate 3 (where they were parked), you head east towards the ski area and there will be a safe entrance into the venue.

I came here with friends for DMB on 5÷29÷13.
While we ended up getting to the area a little late, the traffic was beyond what we expected. I can’t believe they don’t have more options for routes in and out of the venue area. They also weren’t directing traffic very well. We ended up missing the opening act (MOE) because of the traffic and how far away they had us park!
The drinks and food inside was far more overpriced than I’ve seen at other venues as well.
Overall the sound and visibility during the show was decent. Not the best I’ve experienced, but not the worst either.
Two of the biggest issues were the traffic and crowd control before and after the show, and the disturbing amount of trash that was left after the concert. I suppose the second issue is more of a reflection on the people attending the show, but I also can’t say that I saw many trash cans or recycling bins anywhere! Either way the venue and those attending shows really need to get it together! There’s no reason to throw your garbage all over the place!

It’s hard to know to whom I should be giving credit for the amazing time I had at the Peach Music Festival on Montage Mountain. This was an amazing festival, but with some serious issues thrown in to mix things up.
We had to park about a mile away and lug all our stuff up a hill and across a rocky lot to the gate, where we were quickly checked through and loaded onto big tractor-​pulled wagons. Those deposited us at the bottom of a ski slope, which we then had to climb to find a camping spot. But they also had golf cart-​sized vehicles whipping around and helping poor souls like me up the mountain.
Once we were settled in, though, I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun. The size of the crowd forced us into close quarters and quickly close relationships with our great neighbors. The absurdly priced alcohol inside the venue was overshadowed by our stealthiness in sneaking in water bottles of liquor. the music was great, and spread between the main stage and a second stage, set up at the base of the neighboring FULL-​BLOWN WATER PARK. How much fun can possibly be packed into a single weekend? This place showed me.
This was a music festival done right, so right that I forgive them for the back-​breaking physical labor involved in setting up camp. Those beer prices, though, are utterly unforgivable; if I hadn’t been here for such a magnificent festival, I’d probably have fewer nice things to say.

The venue is nice the first time I went there in 2009 had no problems. Most recently though there were multiple porta potties covered in fecal matter. a 20 oz beer is $ 12 each these are prices you’d expect to find in NY not in the middle of no-​where Pa. Should be noted in 2009 a 20 oz beer was a more reasonable $ 7. If you have a choice of venues this one should be avoided unless they make some changes to amenities and pricing.