LODGING SUGGESTIONS

Tell 'em you're attending the festival.

Closest Hotel: Inn at Santa Fe (505-474-9500, innatsantafe.com). Ask for the $99 Thirsty Ear Festival rate.

Affordable downtown lodging: Santa Fe Sage Inn (866-433-0335, santafesageinn.com). Ask for the $79 Thirsty Ear Festival rate.

Luxury rooms: Hotel St. Francis (800-529-5700 or hotelstfrancis.com).

Convenient to Albuquerque Airport: Best Western Rio Grande Inn (800-959-4726 or riograndeinn.com).

Low-cost cabin-style rooms near festival: (Synergia Ranch, 505-474-5269, synergiaranch.com)

Close-by RV park: SF Skies (877-565-0451).

DIRECTIONS TO CAMPING AT SYNERGIA RANCH:

A 3-day camping pass (or any portion thereof) costs $30.
Just show up at Synergia Ranch to claim a camping spot. Call 505-473-5723 for more info.

Show up at the campground anytime Friday, Saturday or Sunday, grab a flyer, and we'll come visit you at some point during the weekend to check you in.

Camping with showers and bathrooms is one mile from the festival site in a gorgeous orchard overlooking the Ortiz Mountains. Follow above directions. After you turn onto Cnty. Rd. 45, continue 1.3 miles on straight stretch past festival turnoff until road comes to a 90 degree turn. Instead of turning, go straight onto a dirt road (Silver Hills Rd.). Take first left into Synergia Ranch. Set your tent in the orchard to left of parking lot. DO NOT DRIVE INTO ORCHARD; THERE ARE IRRIGATION LINES AND DITCHES. NO CAMPFIRES PERMITTED! Be sure to pick up a camping flyer.

CAMPING RULES
* DO NOT DRIVE INTO ORCHARD. Irrigation lines, ditches, and ruts abound. Please walk in.
* NO CAMPFIRES PERMITTED! New Mexico in August is quite comfortable without.
* NO PETS. We love 'em too, but it's too hot and the campground does not allow it.
* BE COURTEOUS TO YOUR NEIGHBORS, most of whom are trying to sleep.
* DO NOT LEAVE CHILDREN UNATTENDED!
* MAKE SURE YOU SIGN IN.
* Cash or checks only (credit cards are not accepted at the campsite).

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