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The festival states it in three places on its own site: there is no parking or camping for RVs or motorhomes. Car camping takes passenger cars, trucks and vans only, on 30 by 10 foot sites, and a vehicle is turned away if it has a toilet in it regardless of working order. That excludes both our Class C units and the Class A. Weekend one runs April 9 to 11 and weekend two April 16 to 18, 2027, at the Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio, CA 92201.
Murrieta to Indio is 82.5 miles, about 1 hour 29 minutes. You book a Coachella Valley RV park, we deliver the unit there and set it up, and you take the festival shuttle or a rideshare in. Being an hour and a half away means we can reach you if something goes wrong mid-weekend. Call +1 951-305-0172 with your park and dates.
Because the rig is a base rather than a campsite, what matters is how it lives for four nights at a Coachella Valley park. Hayzel is the cheapest way in at $110 a night sleeping six, and Chester sleeps eight at $116, which across a Thursday to Sunday run is $464 split eight ways. Koda is our newest trailer at $138 sleeping seven, and Lucy the Boho Bunkhouse is the same rate.
A towable has a real advantage here that it does not have at Stagecoach: your tow vehicle stays free for the daily run to the shuttle stop. If nobody in the group tows, Rocky is a Class C bunkhouse sleeping eight at $204 and Betty sleeps seven at $237, both driveable with no hitch needed.
Layouts are on the large bunkhouse travel trailer, small travel trailer and Class C motorhome pages. Dates go through the Get Lost RV booking page.
The festival sells a Coachella Shuttle Pass at $150 covering valley routes, and for a group staying at an RV park that is the clean answer. Outbound line shuttles stop one hour after the music ends, so plan the night around that rather than assuming a late ride home. Rideshare works, with the surge you would expect when a hundred thousand people leave at once.
If you drive a second vehicle in, day parking runs Friday to Sunday 11am to 2am, free and first come. Two things catch people: cars left after 2am get towed, and Preferred Parking at $299 stops admitting vehicles at 10pm even though the lot runs to 2am. There is no Thursday event parking, and no overnight parking at all without a car camping pass that your rental cannot qualify for.
One detail shows how hard the no-toilet rule is enforced. Coachella's camping page says no toilets period, not in a vehicle and not in a tent, and none may be brought in. Powered car camping at $155 a night buys one three-prong outlet for small devices, not an RV hookup, and gas generators are banned. The festival simply is not built for a rig. Our Stagecoach page is the opposite story, because the same polo field runs a full RV resort the following weekend.
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