The Crooked River Gathering offers a wide variety of camping options for RV and tent campers.
Here are your options (see details further down the page)
- A choice of two properties, Crooked River Woodland, or Ossipee Fairgrounds. These areas are directly connected by a set of roads and woodland paths, and it takes about 15 minutes to walk from the far side of one to the other. It’s 60 acres in total, with the majority of campsites located on the Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds.
- A choice in length of stay: the four day pass, or the week long pre-camp + weekend.
- You can also just come for the day and not camp over
- RV hookups which offer water and 30 amp electric, or off-grid camping
- Handicap accessible sites, restrooms, and showers!
What are the campsite rules?
- We have a zone for quiet camping (9pm-9am)
- Generators are allowed within restricted times 10am-2pm when parked outside of the generator camping zone, in general we appreciate the limited use of generators
- No amplified/pre-recorded music is allowed (like your Bose speaker playing spotify)
- Coolers, and grills, are allowed. BYO alcohol is allowed at campsites only (drinks for sale at the stage, so no open containers in the stage area please!)
- Campfires are allowed, however, campfires are not allowed within 50′ of buildings, and must be within a RAISED metal container.
- Dogs are allowed on leash on the Ossipee Valley Fairgrounds, but never in the concert/workshop area, and can never be locked in a car. If we receive a complaint about your dog we reserve the right to ask you to leave or bring your dog to a boarding kennel.
Here are the details about your choices in campsites and length of stay:
- Crooked River Woodland offers you a natural and more “remote style” experience. You’ll be able to drive to camping areas and unload, and then park your vehicle along the road or in designated spots. Portable restrooms that are cleaned daily are scattered throughout the grounds, and solar lamps and twinkle lights illuminate the pathways at night for a magical feeling. The river can be heard gurgling nearby, and some sites actually have a river view. You’re under tree cover here, and to top it off, you’re the closest to the actual event space where the music, workshops, and vendors are. (If you’ve been to the Ossipee Valley Music Festival, the layout is essentially mirror opposite, with the fairgrounds up the hill used just for camping, and Crooked River used for all the events and the stage). Crooked River offers a short walk to hot showers and flush toilets/dish wash sinks on the fairgrounds up the hill, and there are potable water spigots throughout. There are two areas where you can camp with an RV or teardrop off grid, the main field behind the concert area, and Lester’s Flatts, the clearing directly next to the concert area. All the remote woodland sites are for tents only.
- The Ossipee Fairground offers a flat and smooth perimeter road to access all the campsites, and you can park directly at your tent etc. on the grass. All of the RV hookup sites are here (30 amp) and you’re close to the restrooms and showers. We recommend bringing a hose splitter with you if you have one of these sites, as multiple RVs share a hose spigot. There are several open fields which will be primarily used for day parking. Most of the campsites are shaded and grassy, with sandy soil. You’ll be a 5-10 minute walk, including a short walk down a hill, to get to the music and events. We’ll have shuttles up and down the hill during the stage hours every day.
- You have a choice of staying for the whole week (arrive on Sunday/leave Monday), or arriving just for the event (Thursday-Sunday). We do not pre-assign RV spaces they are first come, first serve.
- Generally this event does not sell out, so everyone will have ample space to spread out. However, RV sites are limited in size due to their design (most are around 15′) so some large RVs may not be able to fit in these spaces with awnings and all slide outs etc. The sites are 30 amp only. If you have concerns about the size of your RV please get in touch with us (contact info at the bottom of this page or through our ticketing platform Humanitix on the Buy Tickets page).
- Anyone who doesn’t plug in can still bring their RV and park it in a field off grid, among the tents. Tent camping and off grid RV camping (or bus/tear drop etc), are all styled “jamboree” meaning there are no assigned campsites, folks just pitch a tent where they feel like it and get to know their neighbors!
- This event does not sell out, there will be enough space for everyone!