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🏔️ About the Area

Meadow is located at a half way point between the historic Columbia River and Mt. Adams in the Trout Lake Valley of Washington. Located an hour and fifteen minutes from Portland, it's an enjoyable drive through the Columbia River Gorge. The area is home to families of homesteaders, farmers, and various city folk living out their misguided agrarian dreams. It's an area that features World Class wind sports, rafting, kayaking, and all the hiking and biking you care to do.

In the Spring, the mountains will be covered in snow (check your hikes before leaving), the rivers will be full and the Sun will be shining!

🏠 About the Property

Annie and Dale, neighbors of Nu Habitat family Chris and Adria Sparhawk, are generously letting us use their land for this event. Annie's family grew up on the homestead, this is their home, so we'll want to leave it as we found it or better...

⏳ Gate Hours

Meadow will have limited gate/greeter hours to insure that we can greet and get peeps settled in a welcoming, orderly fashion. Please notify Nu Habitat in the event you must arrive outside gate hours.

• Friday : 12 noon - 11pm

• Saturday : 11am-4pm

🪑 BYO Chairs & Shade

While the stages will have some shade coverage and there are nice shady areas, please bring any additional or specific shade you need for your personal setup.

⛺️ Camping

Meadow is an outdoor camping event. We will have designated areas for for tent camping as well as parking areas for those who will be staying in RV / Campers.

🚗 Parking / RV-Car Camping

Parking for tent campers will be separate from RV / Car camping. Our gate team will help you get parked, oriented, and unloaded. We'll have some carts and a small shuttle to help carry your belongings to and from the tent camping areas.

RV-Camper and car camping areas will be designated for those who've purchased vehicle camping pass. Some guidance and direction will be given to you at the gate, but please be courteous and thoughtful as you park!

🗑️ Facilities

Meadow will have the facilities you've become accustomed to at festivals as well as some more specific to Meadow:

• Ample Porta-Potties and Hand washing Stations.

• Running potable water supply.

• Common Area for Food Prep - This will be a shaded area with tables and some basic supplies including water and first aid. There will be some large camp stoves and tables in this area, and it's the safest and best location to use your personal camp stove. BYO food and utensils. We'll all be responsible for keeping up this shared space.

• Garbage - We'll have a trailer to haul bagged trash to the dump. You can deposit your bags anytime during the event or on your way out!

• Ice - Ice will not be sold directly at the event. However, we will coordinate a daily ice run on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for those in need. Please bring cash (1's and 5's) and fill out an ice request envelope in the kitchen area before 9am on the day you'll want ice!

🦌 Wildlife

This valley is home to a wide variety of wildlife: herds of elk, packs of coyote, flocks of turkey, bear, cougar, lynx/bobcat, and your usual suspects of deer, squirrels, field mice, gophers, etc. This brings in raptors of all kinds: owl, hawk, kestrels, and an occasional eagle (although they are usually in the mouth of the river). None of these should bother us except mice.

Secure your food stuffs, otherwise, the mice will take advantage. A sealed cooler does the trick; a vehicle may or may not do the trick (there are a lot of ways in). Don't leave food in your tent!

🦮 No Pets

Due to the wild nature of this environment and the safety of your furry friends we are asking guests to please leave them home for this gathering. Service animals exceptions will fall under ADA guidelines.

🔥 Fire / Danger

The Fire Marshal restricts outdoor fires between June 1-October 1.

We do have a fair amount of wind gusts come up the valley, so it's important that only certain types flame are used and that usual fire danger protocols are followed:

• No open flames, wood burning, charcoal BBQ's, candles, etc.

• Smoking/Cigarettes - All smoking in designated smoking areas only. Discard cigarettes in the provided receptacle and NEVER in the grass!

• Propane / Gas camp stoves only used in designated kitchen area. If they aren't in an RV or camper, elevate stoves 36" off the ground on a stable surface.