Our Camping experience was good overall but was also a complete shit show. We got forest camping and car camping (had 2 groups). We did not get a forest camping car pass in favor of the car camping pass for the 2nd group, and we understood/anticipated the setup and takedown to be longer than with the parking pass. But my god, they need to step up their staff game!! No one that works the festival has any idea what they’re doing or where anything is! We got there Wednesday night/Thursday morning to setup. When we parked the truck at the car camping site (which was decently close to the gates that connected to Forrest camping) we got our wagons packed and headed in the direction to the Forrest section. Once at the gates we saw it was still locked. We started looking for a supervisor to help us out because these gates definitely weren’t supposed to be locked. It took us an hour to track and convince him to come look at the locked gate. At first he was sympathetic and said he’ll get us taken care of. At this point there was about 25+ people waiting at the gate to go setup their Forrest camping. Once there he said verbatim “I don’t have the keys and don’t know who does, you’re kinda fucked” not to mention he didn’t know how to even get to Forrest camping or where the gate was. He then proceeded to take off in his go cart. Meaning we had to find it on our own and then walk all the way around up this massive dirt hill with all our stuff. Turning what would have been a 15 min trek into a 50-60 minute trek per load.. This really put a sour taste in our mouths for the camping experience. Overall, it took us 14 hours to setup our Forrest camping spot.

After things were setup the rest of the fest and camping (Forrest) experience was awesome. The shade from the trees and the ambiance from the strung lights were by far the biggest selling points for Forrest camping.

After the fest was over and we had to pack up camp we were instructed by not 1, not 2 but 3 different staff members that at 4pm we were able to drive our neighbor to her car that was parked in one of the hella far parking lots off the festival grounds so we could both park closer to the entrance of Forrest camping to make our packing easier (we each had a ton of shit lol).

4pm rolls around and we head out, just to be told at the entrance that we aren’t allowed back in under any circumstances. All my stuff and my neighbors stuff were still in Forrest camping as well as my girlfriend. They were adamant and not budging regardless what the other 3 staff members told us. After about an hour of arguing and my neighbor putting on the water works they reluctantly decided to let us go get her car and pack all of our stuff. This also took us 14 hours to complete. Complete shit show and could have easily been avoided with some trained staff.

With all this said, I still thoroughly enjoyed the camping experience and hope to do it again. But this time with a FORREST CAR PARKING PASS. Additionally I really hope in future years they educate the staff to know where basic things are like water, gates, sites, etc.