Applying for reserved placement allows you to post your camp on the theme camps and villages web page for the given year. If you receive placement, you will have reserved camping space and you will get Work Access Passes for your set-up crew. You will also be privy to loads of information we send out in the Placement Newsletters every year. We understand that civic planning is not for everyone, however, so we encourage participants to bring their theme camp whether they get reserved placement or not. There is plenty of space left unreserved where you can set up shop–just be sure to do it outside our blue Placement flags. 

If you choose to set up a theme camp in open camping, we ask that you only take as much space as you need and refrain from “land grabbing.” Land grabbing is claiming a swath of space in open camping for all your friends that have not yet arrived. Claiming land with caution tape, cones, stakes, random pieces of equipment, setting up trailers in a large perimeter, etc. is not okay!  Trailers should not be dropped and abandoned before their inhabitants arrive.