Campgrounds – Top Camp

There are four main camping grounds.

Top Camp is the camping ground closest to the action; closest to the amphitheatre and stage, closest to the food area, toilets, Pink Flamingo and The Meredith Eye. Top Camp is also the largest camping ground on the site; it is a massive green field with gentle dips and hills; a few rock piles, trees, ring roads, native planting areas, and is governed by the new Bluegums Campground to the East and Cypress rows to the South. Top Camp is so big you should be able to camp well away from your neighbours (if you choose to). It is divided into suburbs - Ringwood, Eltham, Hong Kong etc - so you can find your tent easily enough. The native plantings - gums, acacias, she-oaks - have thrived since they were put in a year ago and as such there's more greenery and windbreaks up there.

Over time Top Camp will be ‘planted out' to become like a vast Bush Camp - with groves of SheOaks, stands of gums, maybe the odd circle of blackwoods and a corridor or two of Acacia.

BLUEGUMS
The Bluegums is a vast new shady campground that increases the feeling of spaciousness at the festival. It was a plantation of 5000 adolescent bluegums which Uncle Doug rescued from the evil clutches of the pulp mill and remodelled into a kind of junior Bush Camp. Grasses haven’t fully established yet so if you wanna camp in there bring a tarp or two to peg down as floor (all other campgrounds are mature and excellent). It’s a shady, secluded spot close to The Action at one end and Away From It All at the other. The campgrounds don’t get full for Meredith in December, and Golden Plains is – by design – a quarter smaller in crowd size so it’s Premium Premium Premium. Bring a full camp set up and stretch out for the weekend. Sardines have no place at the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre.

There are three 'loop roads' in the Bluegums. They all start and end on a road called "Here We Go" and the loop roads are in turn named "Loop De Loop", "Loop De Lie" and "All On A Saturday's Night".