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 previously contacted the Parking Lead about your vehicle being vital to your campsite. Please try to contact the Parking Lead BEFORE InterFuse, as this will make things go quicker for you at the Gate.

Examples of vehicles that are vital to a camp:

• You sleep in your vehicle
• It’s part of the camp's structure (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.

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 2009 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.