Parking

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The Joy Of Parking

We're the Parking Perverts. We show people how to wedge it in when it's a tight fit, help them unload and get a ride when it's wet, and help people find a place to put it when they just can't seem to figure out where it goes!

How This Will Work

1) In Dry Weather

You’ll meet a Parking Pervert at the Greeter Tent after you’ve been greeted. The Parking Pervert will remind you to unload at your campsites and re-park in parking areas. The Parking Pervert will show you on the large campground map at the Greeter Tent where the parking areas are located.

This Parking Pervert will give you a parking permit if you’ve contacted the Parking Leads about your vehicle being vital to your campsite. Please try to contact the Leads BEFORE InterFuse, as this will make things go quicker for you at the Gate.

Examples of vehicles that are vital to your camp:

• You sleep in your vehicle
• It’s part of the camp structures (such as a moving van dj booth)
• The vehicle is used as a power source for medical equipment or camp lights/gadgets/etc.

Parking Perverts at the parking areas will guide you into parking spaces. If you forget to re-park in parking areas, Parking Perverts and InterRangers will mark your vehicle for shame. On Sunday, you can drive your vehicle back to your campsite to load up your gear.

2) In Wet Weather

You’ll meet a Parking Pervert at the Greeter Tent after you’ve been greeted. The Parking Pervert will let you know about camp road conditions. Road improvements are being made this year as far down the camp road as possible. These improvements should allow us to drive on the improved part of the camp road, rain or shine.

The Parking Perverts will let you know how far down the road you can safely drive before it turns into impassible mud. Once the improved part of the road ends, you will have to unload your car and schlep your gear to your campsite.

The other option is to get a ride on the OA Express, a tractor with an attached trailer. The Parking Pervert will direct you to a shelter up front where you can unload and wait for the OA Express. The Parking Pervert will then guide drivers into a space in a parking area.

Rain & Mud

Rain storms have come to be an expected part of our events like dust storms are at Burning Man. In six years of InterFuse, it’s been completely dry only once! As the last year taught us, if we get a serious rain storm, the road through the OA campground becomes impassible and everyone has to park up front anyway. The road is being improved to change this situation but we may not be able to improve the entire road this year.

At InterFuse 2007, we were hit with a torrential thunderstorm on Sunday afternoon. Fortunately, most people had left by then. But the creek at the bottom of the driveway flooded the road and one car was swept off the road (no one was hurt). A big group of folks were stranded at OA for a hour or two and had a warm dinner in the OA farmhouse. The LNT team had to stop working because of the storm. Even though the rain caused some complications, we really got lucky.

If we experience dry weather until Sunday and park at our campsites, everyone could be stranded in the mud during a rainstorm on Sunday. With most of the parking up front regardless of dry or wet weather, your car will be ready to drive out of OA.

You might be wondering about the cars parked in the back parking lot. If it rains on Sunday, will they be stranded? With less cars trying to drive through OA on a muddy road, the road won’t become impassible as fast. If the road does bog down, then there won’t be as many cars to pull out of the mud since most of the vehicles will be parked up front.

Conserving Space

Ozark Avalon is beautiful place, with wonderful caretakers who are our friends and community members, as well as the folks who rent us the space. OA is also centrally located for many folks who come to InterFuse. We may eventually outgrow OA but with efficient planning, we can try to stay there as long as possible. Some of the things we can do are parking cars in areas that aren’t so good for camping and parking them more efficiently than randomly at campsites. Not having your car at your campsite will allow more room for good neighbors!

How Do We Know This Can Be Done?

We did it successfully last year!!! We even experienced thunderstorms. We need everyone’s participation for this to work though!

Reasoning

This parking plan may strike you as a pain at first. But there are two reasons why the parking plan will make your life easier. First, you won’t be stuck in the mud at your campsite if it pours rain on Sunday before or during exodus. Second, parking cars efficiently in lots will allow us to better use the space at Ozark Avalon and stay there longer as we grow.

Art Cars

Art Cars (and infrastructure vehicles) are the exception to the no driving rule. You may drive your art car around to your heart’s content, but you MUST drive at 5 MPH or lower though. If you are bringing an art car to InterFuse, please inform the Parking Gurus prior to arrival.

Please note that if we have to shut down the road because it’s too wet, you must park your art car.

• Send an email to Parking Guru Maev

Front Gate - In & Out

When you arrive at InterFuse's Front Gate you will be reminded by the Gate Greeters that once you sign in and enter the campground, you cannot leave and then return later. This policy is for everyone's security. The front Gate will not have the ability to sell you another ticket or have any cash on hand. Make sure you have everything you need to camp for the duration of your stay when you arrive.

Front Gate Hours

Thursday	April 29	8:00 AM to 12 Midnight
Friday	April 30	8:00 AM to 12 Midnight
Saturday	May 1	9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sunday	May 2	Open all day for departures. No new entries allowed.

Questions About Parking?

Use web-based email to Contact The Event Planners.

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"I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are
sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."

— Clark Kerr

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