Travel & Arrival
Don't forget the tent pegs!
Once you’ve packed the car, done a u turn at the end of your road for the one thing you know you’ve forgotten, and text your neighbour to remind them to feed the cat – here are a few bits of info that will be useful for you to know for when you arrive!
Getting here
The festival is held at Rode Hall Estate, Scholar Green, Cheshire, ST7 3QT. Click here to open the location in Google Maps.
Further information about arrival will be shared a few months before the festival to ensure this information is accurate.
To reduce our environmental impact, please car share if you can and only bring one vehicle per group.
Car park passes must be bought in advance via the ticket page. All funds go toward making Just So more sustainable.
Arriving
The car park will open at 12 noon on Friday 21st August so that campers can arrive and get set up early. Wristband exchange will also open at 12 noon. The gates into the festival will open at 2pm. Please do not arrive any earlier than this as we can’t let you in!
Campers are welcome to stay on site until 11am on Monday 24th August, but we do ask that you are packed up, tidied up and ready to hit the road by then.
Day ticket holders are allowed to stay at the festival from 9am until late (as long as they don’t stay over), and the car park will open at 9am for day ticket holders on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August.
Nobody is permitted to sleep in the car park (in a tent, car, campervan or caravan).
Campervans and caravans will be turned away unless you have booked a live-in vehicle pass in advance (a separate car park pass is not also needed). And only people who have booked a live-in vehicle pass will be able to stay in the campervan/caravan area.
On arrival
On arrival, our stewards will direct you to a parking spot. If you are coming by car, you’ll need to buy a car park pass in advance (available here). Vehicles are left at your own risk. If you require an accessible parking spot please let us know in advance. There will be no vehicles allowed past the car park and into the festival site. Vehicle movement is prohibited on site throughout the festival, to keep all festival-goers, especially the small ones, safe. The general camping area is around a 5 minute walk from the car park. We can’t guarantee that there will be volunteers available to help you carry your camping gear from the car park to the tent so you should plan to do this yourself and only bring what you can reasonably manage.
Public transport
The nearest station is Kidsgrove, 3 miles away. Taxis will need to be ordered:
Grove Taxis 01782 788008 – Accessible taxis available
Kidsgrove Taxis 01782 775775
If you’re travelling by bus, you can use the Traveline to plan your route, using ‘Rode Heath, Sandbach Road, Village Hall’ as your destination.
Carbon balancing your festival travel
We’re working with UK charity Onboard Earth to tackle the environmental impacts from our audience travel – these are typically the biggest contributor to an event’s carbon footprint, making up to 80% for the average festival in the UK!
Onboard earth works with 40 of the UK’s favourite festivals, as well as artists and event suppliers. Since 2015 they have balanced over 8.4 million travel miles, with donations helping to power wind turbines in India with the Converging World and funding community solar power with Bristol Energy Co-op, funded a community-owned wind-turbine in the Forest of Dean, helped UK homeowners install Solar PV systems on their roofs to feed the grid with renewable energy and contributed to Solar for Schools – a project that helps UK schools install solar panels as well as teaching the children about the benefits of clean energy