Phish at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, 2017
UPDATE: Phish have announced that both camping and vending at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park have been cancelled for Labor Day weekend. “We are sorry to say that there will be no overnight camping allowed for this year’s shows,” the band writes. “All camping tickets and RV tickets (and associated service charges) will be automatically refunded within the next few days. We recognize the tremendous inconvenience this may cause for those who had planned on camping. Our friends at CID have created a special portal with listings of nearby hotels including some with discounted weekend rates for Phish fans.”
Click here for Phish’s full announcement.
Over the last few weeks, Phish fans have been wondering how Colorado’s bizarre spat of plague-infected prairie dogs will affect their camping arrangements at Phish’s Labor Day run at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
In an August 19 meeting, the Commerce City Council officially ruled that the event will go on, but with no vendors and limited camping, noting how there is a concern that dirt areas of the campground could contain plague-infected fleas.
“The area where a lot of the Phish participants will normally be camping they won’t be allowed to be camping,” Mayor Sean Ford says, adding that “Shakedown Alley” will not be happening either. (Ed. Note: The mayor is obviously referring to Shakedown Street, however he is correct when he describes it as the place where fans “sell grilled cheese sandwiches.”)
“We have an event coming up, and the camping area is not going to be there, but there is still going to be a lot of people coming into this community who are going to want to set up a tent somewhere,” he concludes, noting that law enforcement will be on alert in the surrounding areas to prevent unlawful camping.
“I just wanted to lay that out… No Shakedown Alley and limited camping because of the dirt lots and the infected fleas,” Ford says before closing the issue.
Watch a clip from the meeting below.
This story is still developing…
16 Comments comments associated with this post
Billy the K
August 21, 2019 at 1:13 pmThis is the best thread ever. Lol
Uncle jomamas band
August 20, 2019 at 6:18 pmGood idea cancel the tour. Dedheds are stanky!
DocSarvis
August 20, 2019 at 4:07 pmPut ‘um the field and let ‘um fight it out
Coral Grimes
August 20, 2019 at 4:04 pmCommerce City is protecting the prairie dogs from the wooks.
kirsten
August 20, 2019 at 3:19 pmlol..magna ball now this
some god doesn’t want this shit band to keep pee-peeing in the ears of their stupid “pfans”
lol
Trey
August 20, 2019 at 3:33 pm“Phans” you rotten human
Butthead
August 20, 2019 at 3:36 pmheh heh, good one
Troy
August 20, 2019 at 3:42 pmkirsten, there were no problems at magnaball. i agree, with trey, you are a rotten human.
Kirstensux
August 20, 2019 at 8:28 pmWhat about Magnaball, ya dumb b$tch? It went on without a hitch.
me
August 21, 2019 at 1:09 pmCome on guys, give Kirsten a break… she’s obviously a trashy perv chick who likes to be peed on… that’s her thing and Phish doesn’t do it, so she’s angry and colored yellow with jealousy…
Rick Grimes
August 20, 2019 at 1:30 pmAn army of plague infected wooks! This is an impending zombie wook apocalypse!!!
Always
August 20, 2019 at 12:05 pmWooks gonna wook
>:(
August 20, 2019 at 10:46 amFYI, your headline says the camping is “limited” when it’s canceled. You even say that later on in the article, and in the video, the panel says that like 12 times.
Bob Weir
August 20, 2019 at 10:46 amdude….i would not risk getting ANY PLAGUE for a concert. when the reason for no camping is “the area is infested with plague fleas…” uhhh..ill pass.
dsff
August 20, 2019 at 1:56 pmno kidding. just cancel the shows and reschedule when there isn’t a plague
joe
August 20, 2019 at 2:52 pmfuck that, just wear some deet spray if you are afraid. Antibiotics get rid of it anyways. There are plague infested rodents all over the southwest. The hiking trails in NM all have signs warning about it. and only like 7 people get it a year. just stay away from the prairie dogs and you will be fine!