July 23, 2025 • #What If 2025

How to Gate: Arrival and vehicles, Check the name on your ticket, No Ins and Outs

How to Gate: Arrival and vehicles
Gate’s as easy as 1-2-3! (and A, B, C!)
If you’re new to this event or it’s been a while, please read the following step by step information carefully.

1) ALL vehicles arriving Thursday to Saturday must check in at Main Gate FIRST to get your wristbands (see Gate Hours info here)
2) If your camp is on the Forest side, you will then be redirected to the Forest Gate
3) Once you’re onsite, your vehicle can ONLY stay with your camp IF:
a) it’s required for your theme camp
b) you have a medical reason to require your vehicle
c) you’re sleeping in your vehicle

All other vehicles can be used to drop off your gear at camp, and then you need to park it in the parking lot on your side of the site (there’s a parking lot on each side of the bridge).

How to Gate: Check the name on your ticket!
Want to sit in your hot car at gate hoping to catch a scrap of cell signal?
No?
Well fine, then, I guess you’ll want to MAKE SURE YOUR TICKET IS IN YOUR LEGAL NAME.
That would be your name on your government issued ID.
We know many of us have weird and/or complicated relationships with that name.
Don’t worry, your friendly Gate volunteer will call you by your preferred name and will not share the name on your ticket/ID. But your ticket must match your ID.
NOTE: This also applies to anyone who’s transferred tickets!! Gate volunteers last year reported that multiple people arrived at Gate with their ticket still showing the name of the person that they bought it from!
Here’s how to check/change the name on the ticket:
Go to My Tickets.
Click Manage Booking
Click Edit Ticket Details
This is also where you can add in preferred names and pronouns!
And once you’ve gotten in to the event, don’t forget to put your ID in a safe spot so that you don’t lose it! Every year we get IDs at Lost and Flailed that don’t get claimed!
How to Gate: No Ins and Outs
REMINDER: NO INS & OUTS AT WHAT IF!
Per our long standing tradition, to protect the immersive quality of the event and keep the gate running smoothly, we have a No In and Outs policy at What If.
This means that once you are in, you are IN…
And once you leave, you’re gone for good!
This means no popping in to town for a morning coffee and bannock, block of ice, or other supplies during the event.
Please make sure your newbie Burner friends are aware if this and that they bring everything they need with them!

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