Guides

How to do this properly

The practical stuff — camping, packing, safety, accessibility, and how we judge it all.

Methodology How we rate accessibility Three separate scores — deaf and hard of hearing, blind and low vision, wheelchair and mobility — because they are three different problems with three different answers. Methodology How we rate comfort and complexity Two questions nobody publishes an answer to: how rough is it going to be, and how much work is it to pull off. Here's how we score both. Methodology Experience level and what's on site Is this a sensible first festival, or one to work up to? And what can you actually count on being there when you arrive? Methodology How we rate festival safety Every safety rating on this site comes from the same five criteria, applied the same way, published in full so you can disagree with us.