California camping music festivals

Find upcoming California camping music festivals with campground formats, vehicle access, dates, locations, and practical planning details.

California camping festivals need more than a ticket plan

Vehicle passes, heat, dust, shade, check-in windows and campground logistics can change the trip before the first set starts.

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Qualifying festivals in this collection

  • Joshua Tree Music Festival — Fall 2026 — 2026-10-08 · Joshua Tree Lake Campground · Joshua Tree, CA · camping · planning guide

    A four-night, three-day family-friendly desert campout combining live music with movement, mindfulness, playshops, Kidsville, and a deliberately intimate com…

  • Head Trip 2026 — 2026-10-10 · Empire Polo Club · Indio, CA · camping · planning guide

    Goldenvoice’s one-time-only two-day electronic music festival at Empire Polo Club in Indio, with a single-stage-focused lineup, onsite car camping, shuttles…

  • Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2027 — 2027-04-09 · Empire Polo Club · Indio, CA · camping · planning guide

    Two-weekend destination music and arts festival in Indio with multiple camping tiers, shuttles and large-scale art.

  • Stagecoach Festival 2027 — 2027-04-23 · Empire Polo Club · Indio, CA · camping · planning guide

    Three-day country music festival with a large onsite campground ecosystem at Empire Polo Club.

  • Strawberry Music Festival — Spring 2027 — 2027-05-27 · Nevada County Fairgrounds · Grass Valley, CA · camping · planning guide

    Long-running family-friendly California music campout built around a close-knit community ethos and programming for all ages.

Planning intelligence for this festival collection

5 events currently list camping; 0 explicitly list no onsite camping. 2 publish train, bus, ferry, transit, or shuttle language in current transport notes. 4 track at least one participation path such as vendor, volunteer, staff, media, artist, or sponsor.

Transit and shuttle signals

  • Head Trip 2026 — Day parking is free. Preferred parking, Any Time/Any Line shuttles and scheduled shuttles are also sold. Hotel packages bundle lodging with festival and shut…
  • Stagecoach Festival 2027 — Empire Polo Club is at 81-800 Avenue 51 in Indio. Free day parking is first-come, first-served; paid preferred parking and valley shuttles are available. Day…

Participation paths tracked

Same-date conflicts

Back-to-back same-state possibilities

These are calendar pairings, not travel-time recommendations.