Parking

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How This Will Work

1) In Dry Weather

You’ll meet a Parking Wrangler at the Gatehouse after you’ve been greeted. The Wrangler will remind you to unload at your campsites and repark in parking areas. The Wrangler will show you on the large campground map at the Gatehouse where the parking areas are located.

This Wrangler will give you a parking permit if you’ve contacted the Parking Leads about you 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 vehicle that are vital to your camp: You sleep in your vehicle, it’s part of the camp structures (such as the moving van dj booth at the MindLicker), or the vehicle is used as a power source for medical equipment or camp lights/gadgets/ etc.

Parking Wranglers at the parking areas will guide you into parking spaces. If you forget to re-park in parking areas, Wranglers 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 Wrangler at the Gatehouse after you’ve been greeted. The Wrangler will let you know whether the road is shut down and all parking is up front. You may either schlep your gear to your campsite or use the OA Express. The Wrangler will direct you to the Earth Guardian Station, where you can unload and wait for the OA Express in a sheltered area. The Wrangler will let you know which front parking area to re-park in. Wranglers in the front lots will guide you into parking spaces.

If things don’t dry out by Sunday, you’ll have to schlep your gear from your campsite to your vehicle up front or use the OA Express shuttle. If things DO dry out by Sunday, then you can drive back to your campsite to reload.

Rain & Mud

Rain storms have come to be an expected part of our events like dust storms are at Burning Man. In five years of HullabalU and four of InterFuse, it’s been dry for two HullabalUs and one InterFuse! 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.

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?

At InterFuse 2007, we closed down the road fairly early because of thunderstorms on Thursday & Friday. So, many folks had to park up front anyway. The road was opened back up on Saturday but the majority of cars were parked in front parking lots. We had a bunch of room left for more cars and everyone still had fun without having their vehicles at their campsites. There will be some overflow lots held in reserve in case the main lots fill up but we should have enough room in the main parking areas.

Reasoning

This change may strike you as a pain at first. But there are two reasons why this parking change 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 OA and stay there longer as we grow.

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	May 1	8:00 AM to 12 Midnight
Friday	May 2	9:00 AM to 12 Midnight
Saturday	May 3	9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Sunday	May 4	Open after 8:00 AM for departure. 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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