Ticket Purchase & Info

Tickets:
Tier 1 tickets will cost $450. Prices increase roughly every month after that (or whenever a particular tier sells out).

Cabins:
While standard camping is free, cabins come in a variety of sizes and prices. Prices start at $195 per bed in a group cabin, a private room is $975, and glamping starts at $1500.

Tickets are priced cheaper earlier, because the sooner tickets sell, the more money we have to spend on creating amazing experiences. If people wait to buy tickets, we have no way of knowing whether tickets will actually sell, which results in our budget, and therefore experience, suffering significantly.

This all feels very vulnerable to share, but we know it’s a thing people always ask, so we want to address it. 

The world has gotten outrageously expensive. Have you been to the grocery store lately? A box of cereal costs $10. Not bougie Whole Foods cereal either, but Raisin Bran 🤯. Inflation also affects the cost of event production–which was already notoriously costly.

Our rent is also really, really expensive (we pay for every single person onsite, including ourselves, our medics, our security guards—everyone. Then, have you seen the Fairy Forest? We’ve had to buy every chandelier, grandfather clock, and antique couch you see. And we have to rent trucks to transport those things, and then pay for a full year of New York storage so we can bring it all back next year. There’s also the materials for all of our activations, builds, tools, artist grants, sound, lights, insurance, staff meals, golf cart rentals, lawyer fees, medical supplies, booze for activations, testing kits, porta-potty rentals, and on and on and on. All of this costs *a lot* of money.

As we grow, so do our expenses. CAMP 2023 cost more than $400,000 to put on, and we expect 2024 costs to go up significantly. As CAMP grows so does our staff and operations costs, and we are trying our best to approach something that resembles fair pay for the staff who works on CAMP for many months.

So with that said, CAMP is priced at a point where we can hopefully cover our costs, and attempt take care of the people who put in the most energy into making it happen.

Technically no, but mostly because we just haven’t legally structured it that way. Compared to that famous Non-Profit in the Desert, our entire staff earnings combined makes about 1/3 of just one director at Burning Man, a gathering that makes ‘no profit.’ 

Without turning a profit and being able to earn some money to add to the CAMP bank account, we can’t take on the risk of the following: not selling enough tickets, damaging Camp Ramblewood property (which happened in 2022) crashing one of the trucks and losing a pair of keys (an unexpected $3,000 hit), supplies that get ruined (virtually guaranteed), etc.

Sorry to say, but the short answer is: no. Co—Creation and Participation are the two core values that drive everything else at CAMP. They are what put the Magic in Calling All Magical People.

We truly value artists and creators of all kinds. We’re artists, musicians and DJs ourselves, so we get it. But the fact is that this is a community-built, co-created gathering. In 2023, when all was said and done, of the roughly 750 people who came to CAMP, more than 500 contributed in a huge way: builders, artists, DJs, designers, musicians, workshop hosts, strike team, immersive actors, activation hosts, etc. Comping tickets with this level of co-creation and the aforementioned challenges is completely unsustainable.

Ultimately, we believe that through giving to the community, you will receive many times over what you provide. We understand that you might be accustomed to getting paid for gigs, or at least getting comp tickets, and we hope that this event is special enough to contribute for the joy of creating. This one is for your community— the very same people who you are partying with, whose workshops you’re taking, whose music you are dancing to, and who are also gifting their talents.

Additionally, CAMP is an amazing platform to connect to new potential friends, fans, and creative partners, as well as to experiment. We have seen countless instances of CAMP launching the careers of people just starting a creative endeavor, as well as giving successful artists opportunities to expand their mediums, and introduce them to the most passionate, loyal group of true fans possible.

We want to make CAMP accessible for everyone, so we do reserve a significant number of comp tickets for volunteers. Generally speaking, they are based on hours put in. If you’re coming for build, volunteering three full shifts, or doing an independent project that takes you an inordinate number of hours to create, you can apply through the volunteer survey or artist grant application for a comp.

If you are a person who upholds our values and really wants to be at CAMP, we don’t want the price to be what stops you from coming, so we also offer discounts for people who volunteer for two shifts.

Fostering community is our top priority, and we believe that one of the most important ways to help strengthen community ties is by not growing too quickly, and by keeping it friends of friends. Privacy and a referral system help to create an environment of safety and personal accountability necessary for the community to thrive and evolve. Together we will create culture, and new friends can come experience and adopt that culture, and return the following year to expand it with even more friends.