When I wrote about both weekends of Coachella selling out in a matter of hours, I knew that sellout came with an asterisk since promoter Goldenvoice had pledged to sell at least 2,000 more Coachella tickets to locals later in January.
Even though that opportunity has come and gone, it seems there’s at least one more way to get into the festival — if you’re willing to rough it, Coachella-style.
When I stopped by the Coachella website this afternoon, this image caught my eye:

Sure enough, if you click through to the Coachella camping page and onto the purchasing website, all indications are that campers who reserve tents at Lake Eldorado will get enough festival wristbands for each occupant:

This afternoon, the site indicated four-person tents were available for either weekend at a cost of $3,070, including service fees. That’s $767.50 per person.
I put one such tent in my shopping cart and never got any warning about needing to already have a festival pass, and that’s about as far as I can safely take my journalistic fact-checking on this one. (I don’t think the good folks who run MyCoachella.com would look too kindly upon an expense claim in the neighborhood of three grand.)
But if you give the camp-your-way-in method a shot and it works (or doesn’t), let us know in the comments on this post.
To book Lake Eldorado camping for April 13-15: http://coachella-weekend1.frontgatetickets.com/
To book Lake Eldorado camping for April 20-22: http://coachella-weekend2.frontgatetickets.com/