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FloydFest: Candy for a Festival Camper’s Ears – and Eyes

There’s something about docking your RV or pitching your tent in 80 acres in rural Virginia that makes any camper giddy about communing with Mother Nature. To the music festival enthusiast, camping amid such beauty – with a line up that includes String Cheese Incident, Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band, Kacey Musgraves, Tyler Childers, Margo Price, and Leftover Salmon is enough to make you salivate.

Set along the line that separates Patrick and Floyd counties in western Virginia, FloydFest is a camping feast for any festival goer’s senses – eyes, ears, and spirit.

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FloydFest: Two Decades of Camping & Jams in Western Va.

Take 80 acres in rural Virginia an hour’s drive out of Roanoke. Drop in a line-up of the top musicians and acts from across the jam, blues, bluegrass, Zydeco, Appalacian, and Americana space. Create scenic views from the Blue Ridge Plateau that would make a National Geographic photographer’s shutter finger envious.

And you have FloydFest.

Bordering Patrick and namesake Floyd counties, the festival is pushing two decades as a staple in the Midlantic coast music scene. Before there was Wanee (RIP), Mountain Jam, Peach, or Lockn’, there was FloydFest.

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Girl Camper Makes Camping Cool for All

Janine Pettit didn’t discover girl camping. But she sure made it popular. Known across social media as “Girl Camper,” Pettit was a stay-at-home mom who raised three kids before turning her husband’s green light to join a camping group more than a decade ago into her own adventure. Now, she’s a well-known camping and RV festival enthusiast.

RoadtripMojo first met Pettit at the Florida RV Super Show back in 2018. She was showing off the latest Liberty Outdoors Mini Max teardrop trailer. We were smitten with the trailer. Her story, however, captured our imagination.

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Kamp Happiness: Creating a Home for Your Music Festival Camping Tribe

There’s a vibe that rolls through Kamp Happiness. Maybe it’s from the musicians playing beneath the pop-up tents, or the friends gathered close. Maybe it’s the crew sitting ‘round the campfire, drinks and guitars in hand.

Or maybe it’s just the welcome calling out from the darkness when we happened upon Kamp Happiness late the first night of Suwannee Roots Revival back in October.

“Come on in,” a woman’s voice beckoned. And on in we came.

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Hammocks Lend Hang-Time to the Camping Music Festival Scene

Venture beneath the trees and into the aura that surrounds the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park’s Amphitheater Stage (oldtimers still call it the “Mushroom Stage”) and something becomes clear. People here love their hammocks. Depending on the music festival or concert, they can number into the dozens strung from the Florida live oaks that are a unique part of the musical production. It’s a sight to behold – laser lights shining through the trees and hammocks hung between them.

Whether at a music festival or out camping among nature, it’s easy to become part of #HammockLife. Cop a hang in someone else’s vacant hammock (Unofficial SOSMP Rule: any open hammock and or festival chair is yours to use until the owner returns), or string up your own, hammocks bring a kind of oneness with the venue.

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