Summerdance

Summerdance is a long-running Labor Day weekend camping festival at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio, headlined by the electronic jam band Lotus across multiple nights. Its signature is the setting: a private, spring-fed swim quarry with a sandy beach and cliff jumping, ringed by 800+ primitive woodland campsites where music and swimming happen side by side. Beyond the main stage, the weekend is known for late-night 'renegade' sets scattered through the woods, blending livetronica, jam and electronic acts

Regulars describe Summerdance as their favorite weekend of the year, praising the tight-knit, exceptionally friendly Lotus crowd ('Lofam'), the beautiful spring-fed quarry for swimming and cliff jumping, and the woodland camping. Attendees highlight that everything is cheap compared with larger festivals, that it is a great fest to attend solo because the crowd is so welcoming, and that the venue itself is a much-loved, one-of-a-kind spot people return to year after year

The 2025 edition ran August 28-31 at Nelson Ledges, with Lotus again headlining multiple nights. Some attendees reported disappointment that staff cracked down on the unofficial late-night 'renegade' woods stages that had been a hallmark of the event, an enforcement stance the community attributed to the venue's ongoing tensions with neighbors and the county