As Wacken Open Air only sells 3-day tickets, the majority of visitors spend the entire festival on-site.
As a result, most of the more than 240 hectares of the festival site are designated camping areas.
Camping opens on Monday and has been included in the ticket price since 2017.
However, in the years before, an extra fee was charged for arrival before Wednesday.

The campsite is equipped with showers, flushing toilets, portable toilets, drinking fountains, small supermarkets, food stalls, and information boards, and is continuously patrolled by the police, fire brigade, and security services.
A garbage collection service collects full garbage bags on the premises.

For orientation, the individual sites called Campgrounds are marked with code letters.
Campgrounds A and B are reserved for visitors arriving without a car, while Campgrounds Y and R are intended for campers and other heavy-duty vehicles.
Y offers the possibility to rent entire caravans, tents or to get a power supply for your own caravan.
At Campground U, large groups of 50 people or more can reserve a larger area free of charge.

Since the large crowds lead to a bottleneck situation in terms of mobile service, some providers now set up portable base stations for GSM, UMTS, and LTE+ during the festival.
As Wacken Open Air only sells 3-day tickets, the majority of visitors spend the entire festival on-site. As a result, most of the more than 240 hectares of the festival site are designated camping areas. Camping opens on Monday and has been included in the ticket price since 2017. However, in the years before, an extra fee was charged for arrival before Wednesday.
The campsite is equipped with showers, flushing toilets, portable toilets, drinking fountains, small supermarkets, food stalls, and information boards, and is continuously patrolled by the police, fire brigade, and security services. A garbage collection service collects full garbage bags on the premises.
For orientation, the individual sites called Campgrounds are marked with code letters. Campgrounds A and B are reserved for visitors arriving without a car, while Campgrounds Y and R are intended for campers and other heavy-duty vehicles. Y offers the possibility to rent entire caravans, tents or to get a power supply for your own caravan. At Campground U, large groups of 50 people or more can reserve a larger area free of charge.
Since the large crowds lead to a bottleneck situation in terms of mobile service, some providers now set up portable base stations for GSM, UMTS, and LTE+ during the festival.
Wacken Open Air