What to deliver to Austin City Limits Music Festival

Ah, fall in Central Texas. The season the place non-100-degree days (perhaps) turns into the norm, the pumpkin spice is flowing and Austin’s Zilker Park transforms right into a sea of transplants, wannabe Texans and maybe a couple of natives seeking to groove to the music. The 2025 Austin City Limit Music Festival returns to the Capital City October 3-5 and October 10-12, with headliners together with Sabrina Carpenter, The Killers, Doechii, Luke Combs, The Strokes, John Summit and T-Pain.

Whether you are a seasoned professional with the pageant circuit or embarking in your first ACL Music Fest facet quest, here is your (albeit, a bit chaotic) information to all of the do’s and don’ts of mastering your first Texas pageant. Curious about what’s or is not allowed contained in the pageant itself? ACL breaks down these permitted and banned objects, alongside its bag coverage, online.

There is nothing worse than a hot-and-humid day in Texas and detecting a severe case of BO close by and, insult to harm, incomes your self a blistering sunburn. Pack a travel-size bottle in your festival-approved bag. On the deodorant entrance: apply a beneficiant quantity earlier than the pageant, bathe beforehand, put on breathable materials like linens and keep hydrated. Which leads us to…

ACL is infamous for its unpredictable climate, the place the temperatures can vary from sizzling and muggy to, dare we threat jinxing it, wet and chilly. Regardless, you may need to keep hydrated to deal with lengthy days bumping to music within the solar. ACL affords hydration stations the place friends can refill their water containers freed from cost, serving to you keep as calm, cool, collected and environmentally pleasant as may be. Plus, who must be spending extra cash on water, within the 12 months of our lord 2025?

Alongside hydration, take into account investing in a miniature, battery-powered transportable fan to assist your self quiet down in occasion of a very scorching day on the Great Lawn. You’ll even be thanking us later if you happen to deliver a bandana to cowl your face from the dreaded ACL mud or douse it in water to position in your head or neck to chill your self down.

No one needs to lose a credit score or debit card at a pageant. Prior to arriving at Zilker, register your ACL wristband and take into account linking your type of cost to your card. That’ll can help you merely faucet your wristband towards cost readers to cowl any meals, drinks, vendor objects or merch you may buy. Note: If you might be 21 or older and plan on consuming at ACL, deliver your ID since you’ll be carded earlier than receiving a particular wristband allowing future alcohol purchases on website.

Listen, many people have had a sloppy day consuming expertise. But getting sloshed at a pageant? Not solely are you working the chance of some gnarly uncomfortable side effects courtesy the warmth and crowds, however you are additionally setting your self up for a — actually — forgetful pageant expertise. If you do plan on consuming, regulate your beverage and watch out to not spill it on attendees close by, alternate between your alcoholic beverage of selection and water, and make sure you eat all through the day. Passing out in the course of Sabrina Carpenter’s efficiency? Don’t threat that lifelong “Manchild” label.

No one paid lots of of {dollars} to go to ACL and overhear your conversations with mates. Be courteous of different individuals’s pageant expertise and, if you happen to’re feeling chatty or want to speak about one thing along with your crew, take away your self from the throngs of the gang or grasp within the again so others can proceed listening uninterrupted.

Zilker is likely one of the crown jewels of Austin for a cause. Don’t taint that pure magnificence for a second of pure laziness when there are trash cans and recyclable bins actually in every single place across the park. The true trash on this situation is you if you happen to depart your empties and meals waste chilling on the garden.

We’ve all been in a porta-potty earlier than. That can both be a barely tolerable expertise or nightmare gasoline for years to return. Bring a miniature-sized hand sanitizer or moist wipes and tissues with you to Zilker, and thank me later.