How we wait to get into Zumwalt Campground (ZCG) for the Oregon Country Fair is different this year. For those who don’t really know what ZCG is or what goes on there, you can learn more here. The Oregon Country Fair begins on the Friday after Independence Day every year. ZCG, a camping event for people attending the Fair, opens the gate for campers on the Thursday the same week, at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and not a second before. People travel from far and wide to come to Fair and camp at Zumwalt, and many arrive early on Thursday. In recent years, there has been a designated staging area off of Jeans Road in Veneta where the Zumwalt tribe would congregate. In 2015, people who parked at the designated staging area were allowed to enter the park before anyone else. For 2016, that is not going to happen. That is to say, the City of Veneta isn’t telling campers where to go before the gate opens on Thursday, and there will be no preferential entry to the park at the designated time.
Now those of you who have been camping at ZCG for many years have seen this before. Those were the wild years when people would park willy-nilly on Jeans Road and get busted by the fuzz. Fortunately, cannabis possession laws have changed in Oregon, but you can still get seriously hassled by law enforcement. I’m not going to tell you what to do before the gate opens, but here are some ideas for how to manage that slice of time from dawn on Thursday of Fair weekend and the stampede at the Zumwalt gate.
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Author: El Scorcho (not his real name)Been camping for Fair at Zumwalt since 1994 and still haven't seen it all. Why else have a blog for something that lasts three days, once a year? I am not an employee of the City of Veneta and have no affiliation with the Oregon Country Fair. Well, I go to Fair and I do volunteer stuff at camp, but that in no way makes this website and blog official. Consume with caution! Archives
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