POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
Sleeping Arrangements

Indoor Lodging
Indoor lodging typically consists of setting up an air mattress and sleeping bag on the floor of a gym or large multipurpose type room. Generally about 75% of our participants choose to sleep indoors.

Outdoor Camping
Outdoor camping typically consists of pitching a tent on a large field or the lawn of the main lodging site grounds.

At some main lodging sites outside security lights come on at sunset and remain on all night so you should set your tent up away from these lights if possible as well.

You will not be able to pitch your tent directly near the main access door at most main lodging sites because we need to leave access open for support vehicles to unload and load event related supplies and gear. If you pitch your tent where it is not allowed we reserve the right to have to move it later.

No campfires or open flames will be allowed.

A great solution to eliminate the extra work of pitching and taking down your tent would be to consider signing up for the personal tent set up or tent rental or services offered by Professional Events Service when available. Click Here for more information about these services.

Pros and Cons of Each Sleeping Arrangement
There are some very significant pros and cons of each type of sleeping arrangement. The only way to completely avoid all of these problems is to get a room at our supported hotel.

Sleeping Indoors
One of the main benefits of sleeping indoors is that you can avoid the extra work from pitching a tent at the end of an already long, challenging day and scrambling to get it taken down, packed up, and on our vehicles before they leave in the morning. You also won't have to worry about inclement weather if you sleep indoors, and you can enjoy the air conditioning in the main lodging sites where it is available. If you sleep indoors every night, you won't even have to bring a tent at all!

The major cons of sleeping indoors are that you may have very little privacy since all the other participants staying indoors will also be staying in the same room with you. You will need to change your clothes in the locker room or bathrooms or do so discreetly in your sleeping bag and it is absolutely impossible to simply be alone.

It may also be difficult to get a great night's sleep if you do not use earplugs since other participants will snore and move around and get up and go to the bathroom during the night. If you want to go to bed earlier than 9:00 pm you night not be able to because the lights for the indoor sleeping area will be turned off at that time. In the morning, once the first person gets up for the day pretty much everyone else gets up too when his alarm clock goes off and he starts moving around getting his stuff together for that day's ride.

Sleeping Outdoors
The benefits and drawbacks to sleeping outdoors are just about opposite to those sleeping indoors. You will be have the extra work of pitching your tent after you arrive in town and taking it down in the morning and you might get wet if it rains, but you will also have infinitely more privacy than you would sleeping indoors and be able to go to bed earlier than lights out at 9:00 pm and as a result might get a better night's sleep.