WINFIELD, Kan. (KSNW) – Organizers of Walnut Valley Festival will again offer participants in Land Rush the opportunity to pre-register online in advance of the annual race to claim campsites before the start of this year’s festival, which will be held from September 14-18.
Walnut Valley Association (WVA), which organizes the festival, rolled out a new online process in 2019.
Prospective Land Rush participants are offered the chance to pre-purchase camping and essentially add their names to an online queue. WVA will repeat the process this year, with preregistration open July 1-10. After preregistration, campers will be sent information on when and where they should plan to arrive for the initial Lineup on August 27. They will be processed into staging areas on that day and will continue to arrive in advance of the actual Land Rush, scheduled for September 8.
One change that has been made is to abandon one of the steps that had traditionally been part of the process. The festival will no longer ask patrons to take part in “Number Day,” when festival staff gave patrons a specific number that denotes their place in the line entering the respective campgrounds
Prospective festival attendees may find more detailed information on the entire Land Rush process by visiting wvfest.com, and then clicking on the header for camping.
