California electronic music festivals

Find upcoming California electronic music festivals with dates, city and camping formats, transportation, and practical planning details.

California electronic festivals span cities, fairgrounds, deserts and destination weekends

Separate transit-first events from camping and destination formats before comparing tickets or lodging.

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…

  • Escape Halloween 2026 — 2026-10-30 · NOS Events Center · San Bernardino, CA · planning guide

    Two-night Halloween electronic music festival at NOS Events Center with late-night afterparties.

  • Dreamstate SoCal 2026 — 2026-11-20 · Queen Mary Waterfront · Long Beach, CA · planning guide

    Two-night trance and electronic music gathering at the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach.

Planning intelligence for this festival collection

2 events currently list camping; 2 explicitly list no onsite camping. 3 publish train, bus, ferry, transit, or shuttle language in current transport notes. 2 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…
  • Escape Halloween 2026 — Free general parking is spread across multiple event lots; premier and accessible parking open earlier. City shuttles are sold separately. Street parking is…
  • Dreamstate SoCal 2026 — There is no onsite festival parking. Free continuous shuttles run from the Long Beach Convention Center area from 3 PM–7 AM; rideshare and downtown parking f…

Participation paths tracked

Same-date conflicts