Security Ideas for Attending 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival

The twenty fourth Austin City Limits Music Festival returns to Zilker Park on October 3-5 and October 10–12. The City of Austin appears to be like ahead to welcoming music followers from throughout the nation to partake in a singular pageant spanning two weekends and the tradition that makes Austin the Live Music Capital of the World.  

Before the pageant begins, attendees ought to evaluation steerage from the City and take precautions to make sure a protected and enjoyable expertise throughout fall pageant season. Visit the ACL Fest website to find out about the bag policy, water bottles, and other allowed/prohibited items.

Austin Parks and Recreation Department 

• Festival setup, which incorporates security fencing, is underway. Use the City’s Austin City Limits Mobility Guide to see impacts on the park grounds.
• Review park availability and access to keep away from the construction zones on William Barton Drive.
• Pack an empty refillable water bottle and keep hydrated all through the occasion. The pageant can have free water bottle refilling stations accessible.
• Wear sneakers, garments, and hats which might be applicable for the outside surroundings and climate circumstances. 
• Communicate your anticipated whereabouts forward of time and set a gathering place in case cellphone protection is intermittent on the pageant.   
• Ensure your telephone is absolutely charged whenever you arrive.
• Please observe Leave No Trace rules, resembling disposing of waste correctly and being thoughtful of different guests.
• Glass and Styrofoam will not be allowed on park grounds.
• No exterior alcohol is allowed on website. 
• Swimming in Lady Bird Lake is prohibited by regulation. 
• Smoking and vaping are prohibited in City of Austin parks. Violators are topic to a Class C misdemeanor.  
• Unpermitted merchandising in and across the pageant grounds is prohibited and can end in a minimal $200 superb – a Class C misdemeanor. 

Austin Transportation and Public Works

• A shuttle service supplied by ACL Fest will board at Sand Beach Park on the nook of Walter Seaholm Drive and Electric Drive and drops riders off on the Barton Springs west entrance to the pageant. Attendees may journey the shuttle again every night of the pageant.  
• CapMetro: Use the CapMetro trip planner to map out your journey to and from the park. MetroRapid 803 is the perfect path to get to ACL Fest — it drops attendees close to the intersection of South Lamar Boulevard and Barton Springs Road.  
• Hike & Bike Trail: Walk or bike on to the pageant. Bring a lightweight and bear in mind motorized autos will not be permitted on the path. 
• Bicycle: The interactive Austin City Limits Mobility Guide gives routes across the pageant.  
• Micromobility: If you take a shared scooter or bike to the occasion, drop off the machine in a designated area earlier than coming into the grounds.  
• Rideshare: Pickup and drop-off factors will likely be positioned beneath the MoPac Pedestrian Bridge at Veterans Drive, Lee Barton Drive and Wallingwood Drive. 
• There is not any parking at Zilker Park or within the surrounding neighborhoods. Parking on the grass or on unauthorized park grounds will end in a big superb throughout particular occasions. 
• This interactive Austin City Limits Mobility Guide gives a full preview of the highway closure and lane discount schedule. 

Austin Police Department 

• APD will conduct a No Refusal Initiative that can coincide with the upcoming ACL Fest. This initiative will likely be in impact from October 3 by October 12 and can run every day from 9:30 p.m. to five:30 a.m.
• No Refusal Initiatives are an effort to implement DWI legal guidelines, hold the general public protected by encouraging drivers to make accountable selections, and to use for blood search warrants on suspects who refuse to supply a breath or blood specimen as required by regulation.
• Pay consideration to your environment, particularly in crowds.  
• Keep your telephone and ID/bank cards/money in separate locations in your particular person.  
• Do not hold your telephone in your again pocket — telephones protruding of again pockets or backpacks will not be safe.  
• Keep property in a safe location (entrance pocket, fanny pack) or go away at residence. 
• Record serial quantity info in your machine and retailer it individually.  
• Notify on-site safety/APD instantly for help.  
• Utilize APD’s online reporting site or Austin 3-1-1 (non-emergency) to report theft. If you see one thing, say one thing.
• Check the ACL Fest lost and found site to report or try and find a misplaced cellphone. 

Austin-Travis County EMS 

• ATCEMS will present on-site medical assets on the pageant. 
• If you or somebody you’re with experiences a medical emergency and might make it to the medical tent, please accomplish that. If unable, name 9-1-1 and supply as many particulars about the place the medics have to go to succeed in the affected person as shortly as attainable. 
• Download and use the What3Words App each throughout emergencies and for private use on the pageant.
• Consume alcohol sparsely and keep away from utilizing illicit substances. 
• Do not take drugs that haven’t been prescribed to you and legally distributed from a licensed pharmacy. 

Austin Fire Department

• Be conscious of a big quantity of pedestrians sharing the roadway within the space across the pageant. 
• If there may be an emergency response to the realm, please give right-of-way to permit emergency autos entry.  
• Dispose of smoking supplies safely.   
• AFD will likely be on-site to make sure all fireplace code necessities are met. 

Austin Homeland Security & Emergency Management

• Practice the buddy system. Always have a companion with you.
• Have a longtime assembly level in case you get separated out of your group.
• Plan your path to and from the occasion and have a protected journey residence.
• Stay climate conscious and gown accordingly.
• Stay hydrated all through the day.

Austin Public Health

APH recommends attendees be up-to-date on their vaccinations, use hand sanitizer, wash arms usually, and keep residence if you happen to really feel sick.    

Communication During the Festival

The City of Austin will make the most of X and Facebook to push out related info. The Austin Police Department, Austin-Travis County EMS, Austin Fire Department, and Austin Emergency Management can even make use of their X feeds for time-sensitive notifications.   

ACL Fest will make the most of their website, Facebook, X, Instagram, and the Festiverse app to share info with pageant goers.  

A Message from ACL Fest and C3 Presents

We try to repeatedly replace and evolve our security and safety protocols, which embody schooling and preventative measures to maintain folks protected. With this in thoughts, we’re partnering with This Must Be the Place, an overdose prevention nonprofit, who will educate music followers concerning the risks of Fentanyl and provide them with the life-saving opioid reversal drugs, Naloxone, generally often known as Narcan. We encourage attendees to cease by their sales space on the pageant and be taught extra.

About Austin Center for Events  

The Austin Center for Events (ACE) is a collaborative meeting of City of Austin departments and businesses designed to streamline particular occasion allowing on private and non-private property. ACE is anchored by groups from Austin Public Health, Transportation and Public Works, Parks, Music, Police, Fire, EMS, Austin Resource Recovery, Development Services, and accomplice businesses, and works carefully with occasion organizers to information them by the particular occasion allowing course of.

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