Festival Information

This year's 10th Annual Summer Meltdown Festival is Aug. 6th - 8th, 2010

The festival is located just outside of Darrington WA. at the White Horse Mtn. Amphitheater. Click here for directions

You can purchase tickets online, at one of our ticket outlets or at the box office upon arrival. Tickets purchased at outlets are $10 cheaper than online tickets. However, only full weekend passes may be purchased. All other tickets must be purchased at the box office or online.
Click here to find a Ticket Outlet near you.

Thursday Gate Hours: 5pm to 10pm
Friday Gate Hours: 10am to 10pm
Saturday Gate Hours: 10am to 10pm
Sunday Gate Hours: 10 to 6pm
Please be mindful of our gate hours. It is extremely difficult to facilitate late arrivals. If you arrive outside of posted gate hours, you will be denied entrance.

Tickets are NON-Refundable. This is a rain or shine event.

If you purchased your tickets online and are unable to attend, we suggest you find someone to purchase your ticket and change the name on your ticket order. If you have any problems feel free to email us at info@summermeltdown.com

If you purchased more than one ticket you have two options:
1) Everyone must show up with the original ticket purchaser, or...
2) To arrive separately, the original ticket purchaser may go back into their account and change the names to those attending the festival. Print out a copy of the confirmation email for each person to bring with them to the box office.

Yes, we offer Friday or Saturday only tickets. These require a credit card deposit at the box office, which will be refunded when you leave the festival. Please note that in order to receive your refund you must check out before noon the following day. Sunday only as well as Saturday/Sunday passes can be purchased at the box office with no deposit required.
For more information visit our Tickets Page.

Yes. Parking is free in the general parking lot. This lot is located several hundred feet from the camping areas, and you may want to bring a cart or other means to transport your gear between the parking lot and the camping area.

Tent camping is included in your ticket price. For those who wish to bring in their vehicles, there is limited vehicle camping available for purchase.

Those who are tent camping... You may not bring your vehicle in at any time for any reason. Not even to unload or load up your gear.

For those who wish to camp in or with their vehicles, you may purchase vehicle camping passes online or at the box office upon arrival (assuming they are not sold out).
Prices are $60 for regular sized vehicles and $75 for oversized vehicles (such as RV's and school buses). These prices will go up at the gate and are sold on a first come first serve basis. There are no in and out privileges for vehicles. If you leave the designated vehicle camping area with your car at any point during the festival and intend to return, you will have to repay the vehicle camping fee or park in the parking lot.

Yes, once you have checked in and received your wristband, you are free to pass in and out of the festival grounds DURING GATE HOURS. Please note, those who purchase vehicle camping passes may not leave and re-enter the venue/camping in their vehicles. Also, if you return to the festival grounds after gate hours you may be denied entrance. Please be mindful of this. Late night security is not trying to be mean, they are just doing their job.

NO NO NO. We are all animal lovers and many of us have to find somewhere for our own pets to go for the weekend. Animals of any kind are not permitted on the festival grounds (that includes your car in the parking lot). If you bring them we will find you and you will be asked to leave.
Here are a list of kennels in the area.

There is a beer garden for those who are 21+. ID's are required and will be checked each time you enter the beer garden, so please bring them. The beer garden features local micro-brews and limited hard liquor.

There are many wonderful food vendors attending the festival this year, sure to entice everyone's taste buds!

You are welcome to bring your own food and limited quantities of alcohol into the festival grounds. Open alcohol containers will not be permitted in the music meadow and glass bottles are not allowed anywhere on the festival grounds.
We repeat NO GLASS ALLOWED! Please don't bring it. We really do not want to confiscate your stuff.

NO! Camp fires, fireworks and charcoal grills are not allowed anywhere on the grounds. Violators to this rule will NOT be tolerated. Ground fires happen extremely easy this time of year. One offense could shut down the Meltdown forever. If we have to ask you to put out your fire or charcoal grill, it will be as we are escorting you off the premises.

However, you are welcome to bring a camping stove to cook your own food.

AT&T and Verizon work at the site. Signals are best in the upper parking grounds.

Cash machines are on site. However its a good idea to bring at least $50 to $100 of spending cash to the grounds. $1 and $5 bills are highly encouraged so vendors don't run out giving change.

Absolutely! Aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and clean paper products are collected on site for recycling. Food scraps and food-soiled paper items are also collected to be composted. Please help us by keeping your garbage, recyclables, and compostables separated, and by bringing your wastes to one of our "waste collection areas" frequently throughout the weekend. Glass bottles are not allowed at the festival so please do not bring them.

This is a family event. There is a kids area with many awesome activities happening throughout the weekend. This is not a daycare. Children must be supervised by a parent or adult while playing in the kids area. We also provide "family camping" with quiet hours. Please be aware, however, that the entire grounds are open air with late night music, and while you may be in family camp you may still hear those who are not.

Unfortunately there are no RV hook-ups available on site.

There are no showers on site at the festival, however there is river access. Please do not bring soap or shampoo to the river. River use is encouraged, please don't pollute it with unnatural elements.

Yes, there is a fairly well stocked mini mart at the gas station about a half mile before the festival grounds. There are also stores in the town of Darrington about a mile beyond the festival grounds.

•Be patient upon arrival. Remember, it's a long weekend of fun ahead of you and we are working as fast as we can!

•You may want to bring a bicycle as the grounds are quite large, no motor powered vehicles allowed.

•Bring a wagon or wheel barrow to help pack in and out your gear

•No glass bottles allowed at the venue. Please don't bring them.

•We'll have an ice truck on site to keep all your perishable items cool.

•No Fireworks, No Drugs, No Fires, No Animals

•Don't forget your bathing suit or your birthday suit for the river!