Walnut Valley Festival Will Again Offer
Online Registration for Land Rush
Winfield,
Kansas—Organizers of Walnut Valley Festival will once again offer participants
in its Land Rush the opportunity to preregister online in advance of the annual
competition to claim campsites just before the start of this year’s festival,
which will be held September 15-19.
Devoted
fans of the festival have traditionally vied for the opportunity to claim their
favorite camping spots early, before most festival-goers arrive on grounds. As
these die-hard fans have arrived earlier and earlier each year to claim their
spots in the campgrounds, organizers have had to create an equitable process
for lining up campers without clogging city streets and major highways in
Winfield.
Walnut
Valley Association (WVA), which organizes the festival, rolled out a new online
component to the process in 2019. Prospective Land Rush participants were
offered the chance to pre-purchase camping and essentially added their names to
an online queue. WVA will repeat the process this year, although the time
period for preregistration has been shortened, from all of July to July 1-9.
The online preregistration is ONLY intended to be used by those who intend to
take part in both Pre-Lineup and Land Rush. After preregistration, prospective
participants in Land Rush are sent information on when and where they should
plan to arrive for the initial Pre-Lineup on August 28. Those who have
preregistered online will be processed into staging areas on that day and
through August 30. Campers arriving after August 30 will be put at the ends of
the lines for Pecan Grove or West Campground.
Grounds
Director Rick Meyer: “While I think many were worried about the online process
that we started in 2019, after Land Rush many participants told us that they
liked it and hoped that we would keep it. Of course, every new process has some
initial bugs, but we are working to make sure the experience goes as smoothly
as possible this year, with the benefit of seeing how things worked on the
first go-around.
Prospective festival
attendees may find more detailed information on the entire Land Rush process by
visiting wvfest.com, and then clicking on the header for Camping. The section
includes a description of the process, an as-yet-inactive online
preregistration form, and a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. 