Timber! Outdoor Music Festival

Timber! Outdoor Music Festival is a three-day camping festival held each July at Tolt-MacDonald Park in Carnation, Washington, a 574-acre forested park at the confluence of two rivers. It is produced by Artist Home, an Indigenous-owned company that promotes emerging Pacific Northwest musicians, and the organizers call it a ten-year tradition. Emerging acts play alongside established ones, one stage at a time, to an intentionally intimate crowd. The festival points to regional bands such as The Head and the Heart and Deep Sea Diver that played early festival stages at its events.

Festival tickets, parking and camping are each sold separately, and the festival runs rain or shine. In 2026 gates opened at 2 PM on Thursday and campers cleared out by noon Sunday. Camping ranges from general and quieter family fields to walk-in premium sites reached by the park's 500-foot suspension bridge, plus yurts, RV and camper-van sites. Children 12 and under are free, re-entry is allowed, and dogs and outside alcohol are not.

This suits music fans who like discovering regional bands in a small crowd, and campers who want a forested riverside setting. A separate family camping area is suggested for groups with children or anyone wanting quieter evenings. The organizers never ask artists to censor lyrics and advise parents to preview the playlists. Daytime options included yoga in the North Meadow and a song circle at Carnation Tree Farm.

Press accounts of the festival praise how it scaled a music festival down to a summer-camp feel, with single stages that let fans stay in one spot without missing a set. A report on the 2023 edition describes campers in tents, RVs and vans, and the junction of the Snoqualmie and Tolt rivers as a big draw, with swimmers, floaters and paddlers of all ages on the beach each afternoon.