Muddy Roots Music Festival
- Dates
- Expected September
- Status
- Confirmed
- Venue
- Junebug Boogie Ranch
- Price
- Not announced
- Camping
- Available
- Last checked
- Sep 1, 2026
Muddy Roots Music Festival comes to Junebug Boogie Ranch, Cookeville, TN, Expected September. Froligo tracks ticket prices, camping, attendee feedback and travel details.
The experience
What's special
Muddy Roots is a fiercely DIY, genre-agnostic camping music festival held each Labor Day weekend on the 127-acre Junebug Boogie Ranch near Cookeville, Tennessee. Running since 2010, it throws punk, outlaw country, rockabilly, doom, blues and back-porch folk onto the same stages, cultivating a tight-knit, misfit-friendly community set against a scenic ranch with a waterfall
What people love
Attendees are overwhelmingly positive, giving it near-perfect ratings and praising the great bands, eclectic lineups, beautiful ranch setting and famously friendly, welcoming crowd; many return year after year and treat it as half music festival, half camping getaway. The site earns points for feeling accessible and well organized, with notably clean showers and better-than-average portable toilets, and attendees have highlighted plentiful harm-reduction supplies on hand
Last time around (2025)
The 2025 edition again filled the Junebug Boogie Ranch over Labor Day weekend and drew warm coverage describing a fun, open, genre-spanning gathering that stays proudly DIY and communal rather than growing bigger. Attendees traded pros and cons online, with harm-reduction provisions singled out as a plus
Listen
No official playlist linked yet. Find Muddy Roots Music Festival on Spotify.
Lineup
Lineup not yet announced. Email me the day it lands.
Getting there
Nearest airport BNA.
How do I get to Muddy Roots Music Festival?
By car
Most people drive to Muddy Roots Music Festival. The nearest major airport is BNA, and from there it is a straightforward drive to the venue. Check current road and traffic conditions before you set off, and see parking below.
By train
No direct passenger rail to the venue was found. Drive, fly in, or use a shuttle instead.
By bus & public transit
One daily Greyhound departure from Nashville to Cookeville (~78 road miles, ~1h15). Gets a traveler to the Cookeville bus stop only, the Junebug Boogie Ranch venue is still several miles outside town, so this leg needs a taxi/rideshare or a ride from other festivalgoers to close the gap. Confirmed Groome Transportation's BNA shuttle network (Chattanooga, Clarksville, Fort Campbell, Pleasant View, Oak Grove, Manchester, Monteagle) does NOT include Cookeville
Book / info →Reaches Downtown Nashville only (BNA <-> Elizabeth Duff Transit Center). Cookeville is ~80 road miles further east; this mode gets a traveler into Nashville, not to the venue, realistic only as the first leg of a multi-mode trip, or if renting a car downtown instead of at the airport
Book / info →Taxi & rideshare
However a BNA-to-Junebug-Boogie-Ranch trip is a ~80-mile, well over an hour one-way rideshare, realistically only sensible split across a group, or for the final short leg from a Cookeville bus stop/hotel rather than door-to-door from the airport
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 Free, included with camping, no separate parking fee. Attendees can park and camp almost anywhere on the 127-acre ranch except vendor row; the official 2023 FAQ post advises parking near a road if you plan on coming and going during the weekend, to avoid driving across the grass field at night. No overflow-lot or rideshare-only-zone policy found, it's a genuinely park-where-you-camp field festival
🚙 Car hire
Compare car hire at BNA
Cookeville is ~80mi/roughly 90min from BNA with no shuttle or transit reaching the venue and only one daily intercity bus that stops in town (still several miles short of the ranch), car hire is the realistic primary option for fly-in attendees, especially since free on-site parking removes any venue-side parking-cost downside
Search car hire →Live price search coming soon.
Where
Venue
The venue has its own page with capacity, accessibility and parking.
Camping & Accommodation
Is there camping at Muddy Roots Music Festival?
Yes, on site camping is available.
Facilities
Camping site types 3
Free, included with weekend pass, no separate car-camping fee
Free, same as car camping, official FAQ explicitly lists RV, camper, tent, U-haul, hotrod, school bus and vintage touring bus as all welcome
Primitive tent camping across the full 127 acres, first-come-first-served, no assigned or paved sites, this matches the live file's existing camping.types enum ('primitive') and is the festival's dominant camping mode
Accessibility & comfort
What the organiser or venue publishes about getting around, and what they do not.
Official site muddyroots.com checked; the site is a single landing page with no FAQ, info or accessibility pages and no accessibility information published. Venue is Junebug Boogie Ranch, Cookeville; ask the organiser directly
Confirm your specific needs with the organiser's access team before you travel.
Pricing
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