Camping, Fires, and More

CAMPING: The primary camping area is near the cliffs around the Fruit Bowl. Please be careful when pitching your tent!

Be sure to choose a spot that minimizes your environmental impact. This means you should ideally find an area of flat sandstone with a crypto-free path to and from your tent. If you don’t know what crypto-fee means, ask a staff member or a friend. Alternately, sandy areas with no sign of plant life or crypto growth are the next best choice. Do NOT camp on top of vegetation or crypto.

The Fruit Bowl area can get rather windy and tent stakes don’t really work in sand and sandstone. Be sure to keep enough weight inside your tent to weigh it down. Keep your belongings and trash secure so they don’t end up flying around.

VANLIFE CAMPING: please view the parking and transport page for more info on sleeping in your vehicles.

FIRES/WOOD: The Fruit Bowl is a NO WOOD GATHERING area! Please bring your own wood if you would like to have a campfire. Campfires are permitted but GGBY staff reserve the right to extinguish or shutdown any private campfire if it seems a safety hazard or in a place where it shouldn’t be (i.e. on/near vegetation). We encourage you to join other campfires before you create your own so you can get to know people and conserve wood. GGBY provides wood for large community fires but will not provide them for small groups or individuals. Bringing firewood for yourself and the community is considered a HUGE token of respect and support for the gathering. Bring as much as you are able to!

If you see someone gathering wood who does not yet know please politely ask them to stop and help them re-scatter the materials to your best ability. These trees are a very important part of the desert ecosystems; they provide habitat, shade, food, soil and more for many other forms of life to live upon. Even if the trees may seem small or dead they are very much alive and some are in the upwards of 1200+ years old.

WATER: There is no water source at the Fruit Bowl. Bring plenty of water. The outdoor shop Gearheads in Moab has free water fill up in the shop.

FOOD: We do not supply food, so plan ahead and bring your own! Everyone has their own idea of what good camp food is, but common options are sandwich materials, peanut butter and jelly, veggies to fry or cook in the fire, rice, soup, and pasta. Durable food items are generally a good idea since you’ll be carrying them from the parking lot to the cliffs. Bring more than you think you’ll need just in case, or to share. Highlining burns calories!

Showers: There are no showers onsite or near the event. The closest showers are in the town of Moab, about 1hr away. Various places in Moab offer showers for a fair price (~$3-6). Check out the Moab Recreation and Aquatic Center.