I have stayed for the weekend as well as done just the day of the games. My preference is to come just for the day. This is a fun festival with a generous host and lots and lots of people just having a good time. You will be entertained by the games, the music, the mud run or some of the other festival attendees. Everyone is very friendly or on occasion just very dunk and happy to say hello. Buying your tickets ahead saves money. Event happens rain or shine. The camping is a couple of open fields, bring your tent, camper or just an air mattress and set up wherever you please. There is a facebook page with a few rules, make sure to check it ahead of time. There are plenty of port a potties, but by day 3 they are always a mess. Bring your own tp and hand sanitizer as a back up. There are two locations of outdoor showers. The water is not heated, but pumped in straight from the brook. It's perfect for cooling off or rinsing off some mud. Keep in mind these are open and no privacy so wear your muddy clothes or swim suit or for those brazen souls nudity is not discouraged. The Olympic Games take place in the afternoon and usually last 2-3 hours. They even open the games with a redneck torch. These are always fun to watch or play. You can even enter by putting your name in one of the orange buckets prior to the games. Tug of war, wife carry, toilet seat horse shoes, beer trot, fire extinguisher toss, bobbing for pig knuckles, greased watermelon carry and barrel roll are the events. If you haven't seen these performed before you may not understand the objective, as the rules are only explained to the participants. I am a gold medalist in bobbing for pig knuckles. (Everyone has there talents). The beer trot is great way to get free beer and if you can chug you can win. The tug of war is often half of the audience partaking. They award medals after every event. They built a nice outdoor amphitheater wih the wooden benches plenty for everyone. The mud runs are exciting to watch. The even installed guard rails for spectator safety. Anyone can try to go thru, just get your vehicle in line. Jeeps, four wheelers, snowmobiles, lawn tractors, jacked up trucks and even the occasional work truck give it a try. Be prepared to get muddy watching, as the vehicles spray mud everywhere as they go by. It's fun to cheer them all on or watch them get stuck and the big tractor has to put them out. There is a pig roast meal that happens in the evening for a small fee. The food is big portions and filling. They also offer concessions all day including onion rings, burgers and cold soda. They have a bar tent too with cold beverages and beer pong. There is always a few vendors selling T-shirts, art work, jewelry , beer hats and much more to peruse through. There is big stage with lots of local bands playing some great music to sing and dance along too. There is a wet shirt contest for your entertainment. There is also a giant late night bonfire, about 20 feet high. There is security in golf carts and they get better each year at controlling the crowdS and enforcing the rules. Each year there is a learning curve and opportunity to improve. There is no ID check at any point, even the entrance. The event is open to families and all ages. There is always underage drinking. Perhaps making this a 21 plus event would be good. There is lots of nudity, boob flashing or girls on four wheelers completely naked. There is also no quiet time. People stay up late and enjoy their time, some loudly. They do ask all atvs and such to shut down by 7pm but don't enforce vehicles such as cars or truck on the property. All day people are drinking and driving their atvs and vehicles. There is walking to and from the areas of entertainment with those same drivers. There is also no medical attention area should an accident or alcohol overdose happen. There is also no list of times for anything, including all the bands. Even the games start at 2ish. It is hard to plan where to be when. Perhaps a list on the facebook page would be helpful and to try to keep to the schedule. read more

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. read more