Alive Music Festival
- Dates
- Expected July 2027
- Status
- Confirmed
- Venue
- Atwood Lake Park
- Price
- $66 to $78
- Camping
- Available
- Last checked
- Aug 23, 2026
Alive Music Festival returns to Atwood Lake Park, Mineral City, OH, Expected July 2027. Froligo tracks current ticket prices, camping, attendee feedback and travel details.
The experience
What's special
Alive is a three-day contemporary Christian music festival held each July at Atwood Lake Park near Mineral City and Dellroy, Ohio, roughly 30 minutes south of Canton. More than 40 acts play across three stages -- including a Next Gen Village aimed at teens and young adults and a family-focused Camp Alive program for younger children -- alongside worship services, guest speakers and programming built around communal worship as much as the music itself. The 300-plus-acre lakeside campground gives the festival a retreat-like camping culture, and its owners have described the event as open to committed believers, people exploring faith, and fans who come mainly for the artists on the bill
What people love
Attendees who return year after year describe Alive as an entrenched family tradition built around communal worship as much as the lineup, with festival entry remembered as quick and friendly, volunteers exchanging tickets for wristbands. Reviews of the lakeside campground the festival is built around consistently single out newly renovated, clean shower and restroom facilities and a surprisingly calm nighttime atmosphere despite heavy crowds. Big communal worship moments during headline sets are recalled as some of the weekend's standout experiences
Last time around (2026)
The most recent edition ran July 16-18, 2026 at Atwood Lake Park, headlined by Skillet, Josiah Queen and Lauren Daigle across roughly 30 artists on three stages, with guest speakers including Willie Robertson and daily Next Gen programming for teens and young adults. Long-time attendees frame the weekend as an entrenched annual tradition centered on communal worship as much as the music, and organizers reported strong ticket demand heading into the event, citing rising interest in contemporary Christian music
Listen
Tap an artist to play them right here.
No official playlist linked yet. Find Alive Music Festival on Spotify.
Lineup
2027 lineup not yet announced. Here's who played in 2026:
Getting there
How do I get to Alive Music Festival?
By car
Most people drive to Alive Music Festival. Check current road and traffic conditions before you set off, and see parking below.
By train
The nearest Amtrak stop is Alliance, OH about 35 miles / ~46 min drive from the venue (per Distance-Cities.com), i.e. farther out than CAK itself, so this is a weaker/secondary option best suited to travelers already routing through Amtrak's network rather than a practical airport alternative. A taxi/rideshare or hired car is needed for the Alliance-to-venue leg; no local transit covers it
Book / info →By bus & public transit
Both operate a stop in Canton, OH (Cornerstone Transit Center, 112 Cherry Ave SE) the host city the festival's own site references ('about 30 minutes south of Canton, OH'). This gets a traveler to Canton, not to Atwood Lake Park itself a taxi/rideshare or hired car is still needed for the final ~30-minute leg to Mineral City, since no coach service reaches the venue directly
Book / info →Taxi & rideshare
CAK's own transportation page confirms rideshare pickup directly outside the terminal and multiple taxi/limo operators on curbside standby. the ~22-mile trip to Atwood Lake Park would be a standard point-to-point fare
Book / info →Taxis and rideshare such as Uber and Lyft can be limited near the venue, especially late at night or in rural areas. Agree a pickup point and time in advance and keep a backup plan.
🅿 Parking
On site parking available. Cost General on-site parking is free with any ticket no prepay platform needed. A separate paid VIP Parking upgrade also exists ($40, 1-Day, processing fees included, currently not on sale for 2027) that reserves one spot near the Vehicle Checkpoint, Saturday 9 AM-midnight access. No motor vehicles are permitted past the parking areas once inside foot traffic only to the amphitheater/stages. Camping-site holders in certain areas get an included VIP Parking Pass usable to drive to the Main Entrance daily (distinct from the standalone $40 VIP Parking product)
🚙 Car hire
Compare car hire
Most attendees drive in or camp on-site with a personal vehicle (free parking, no shuttle needed), but for the fly-in segment CAK is ~22mi from a rural venue with no rail/bus reaching the gate directly car hire is the practical option for that group, and it also opens up the wider Amish-country/Tuscarawas-county region as a pre/post-festival add-on
Search car hire →Live price search coming soon.
Where
Venue
Atwood Lake Park
Camping & Accommodation
Is there camping at Alive Music Festival?
Yes, on site camping is available.
Facilities
Camping site types 2
Tent Camping accepts any vehicle under 26' (no separate 'car camping' product name cars/small vehicles park directly at the tent site). not yet open), consistent with the JS-widget pricing gap already seen across other festivals' drafts
Three RV site tiers: Premium and Deluxe (cement pad, 50-amp electric, water, and sewage) and Standard (gravel lot, 30-amp electric, water access to fill tanks no sewer). Up to 2 vehicles permitted per RV site (Premium/Deluxe/Standard alike); extra vehicles get redirected to Overflow Parking. The tier-pricing/hookup breakdown came through a search-snippet pass corroborated by alive.org/camping/'s search-index text, not a verbatim page fetch
Pricing
Price history and tiers
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