T-minus to first kick
Gates 18:00 PT · Fri Apr 24
01 / The wall
Forty-one names, four tiers, no fine print. Every row drifts a different direction — hold one still to read it. Full set times live in the desk.
02 / The desk
Three stages, mixed like a console: solo a channel to isolate a stage, mute what you're skipping. All times Pacific. Sunrise sets run past the grid — that's the point.
03 / The laminates
Passes ship as physical laminates on a woven lanyard — your name heat-pressed on the back. Lose it and you're negotiating with a gate marshal at 2 a.m. Don't lose it.
Day pass
One day on the flats, noon to sundown. Ambient program, sound-system walkabouts, cold-plunge tanks, the works. No night stages.
Night pass
One night, gates to sunrise. All three stages, the pit, the flats. This is the main event — pick your night, pace your knees.
Full run
All three days, all three nights, in and out as you please. Car-camp plot included. The only laminate that survives the whole story.
Layaway in four splits at checkout · under-18s free with a guardian laminate · resale only via the official exchange — scalped passes get voided at the gate, no drama, no refund.
04 / The lakebed
Esmerelda Dry Lake is a Pleistocene lake floor at 1,450 m. It is beautiful and it does not care about you. Read this twice.
Four litres per person per day, minimum. Refill spines run the length of the site — free, cold, always on. If your pee is the color of our yellow, drink.
38 °C at sound-check, 4 °C at the sunrise set. Pack like you're doing both, because you are. Sequins over thermals is the official silhouette.
When the playa lifts, it lifts fast. Goggles and a rated mask live on your body, not in your tent. Whiteout protocol: stop dancing, sit down, wait it out. The bass will still be there.
Shuttles run from Reno (4 h) and Vegas (3.5 h) every 30 minutes on gate days. Driving? High-clearance recommended, spare fuel mandatory — the last gas is 90 km out at Coaldale Junction.
The lakebed is under a restoration bond. Everything you bring in leaves with you, down to glitter — which is why our glitter is compostable and sold on site. Moop sweeps happen nightly.
Zero-tolerance for harassment; sanctuary tents at every stage staffed by medics and peer support, no questions, no cops, no judgement. Ask anyone in a yellow vest for anything.
The rig
Corona runs a 21-stack toroidal array purpose-built for open desert — 1.2 million watts pushed through a sound field tuned so the beat arrives together whether you're on the rail or 400 m back on a blanket. Substation adds eight buried infra-bass cells. You will feel it in your sternum before you hear it.