NEOTROPOLIS will return
April 29th-May 3rd 2026
Tickets are on sale now
Neotropolis 2026 ticket tier dates and prices:
(The only difference in “tiers” is the date when you purchased your ticket.)
Tier 1 aka early bird tickets:
$345 (+$25.66 service fees for a total of $370.66)
Tier 2 starts december 15th:
$375 (+$27.43 service fees for a total of $402.43)
teir 3 February 13th:
$405 (+$29.20 service fees for a total of $434.20)
If you plan to volunteer or perform,
you should NOT purchase a ticket prior to hearing back about your volunteer or performer status.
A ticket to Neotropolis covers admittance to all 5 days
of the fully immersive event.
No extra fees for parking or camping- it’s included!
Outside food and drink IS allowed!
Ins and outs are allowed!
(And you don’t even have to buy alcohol from us, this event is BYOB!)
Wasteland Weekend, the Mad Max-inspired immersive festival from the same team, will return in 2026.
Learn more about that event here.
LOCATION
Neotropolis takes place in the Mojave Desert in California.
For directions including important travel instructions, check out our HOW TO GET HERE page.
TICKETS ARE NOT REFUNDABLE
TICKET TRANSFER/RESELLING INFO
We highly recommend you only purchase your tickets through our official ticket portal on our website or directly from the On The Stage (OTS) website. We cannot guarantee that tickets purchased any other way will be valid.
That said, we do not prohibit ticket buyers from giving or selling their tickets on to others (provided that they sell them for no more than what they paid - see the info on scams and scalping below).
What to know before you purchase a third-party ticket:
1. YOU BUY THIRD-PARTY TICKETS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
We are a non-refundable event.
Ticket scams online have gotten worse and worse, especially on Facebook event pages and we highly recommend you only buy tickets through our official ticketing platform, On The Stage (OTS). If you do choose to buy a second-hand/third-party ticket, make sure you KNOW the seller. If you don't have any mutual friends with that person, and they don't appear to be from the community, we STRONGLY suggest you do not purchase from them. In fact, even if you DO have mutual friends with a seller, use caution.
We do not prohibit buyers from selling or giving their ticket to someone else.
However, you are buying and selling third party tickets at your own risk. We cannot check to see if third party tickets are legitimate, cannot verify them for you, cannot help change the name on the ticket online, or mediate between parties who have a disagreement over a ticket sale.
If your ticket is determined to be invalid for any reason, and you did not buy it directly from On The Stage (OTS), we can't help you.
You do NOT want to be the person who drives 2,000 miles ready for a multi-day event only to find out at the gate your ticket is no good.
Please know that we would like there to be a better system for transferring tickets among attendees, but for now, there is no other way to do it.
And frankly, this is how pretty much every other large festival or concert operates.
Even with all of the above you should know that we have had many people give tickets to others to use with no issue, and we hope that, if you choose to go the third-party route (which may be common once the event sells out), you will probably not have any issues. We do believe most of our attendees are trustworthy sellers of tickets. But unfortunately, if for some reason your ticket does not work out for you when you arrive, we will not be able to help you if you were not the original purchaser.
2. The QR code IS the ticket.
Each ticket has a unique bar code and QR code. The QR code is the part we actually scan. Once the QR code for that ticket has been scanned, that ticket CANNOT be used again. We highly recommend you have a ticket with your correct name on it, as it will make the check-in process that much faster, but ultimately, if someone has a ticket with a working QR code, they can get in to the event whether or not their name is on the ticket. Each QR code can only be used once. Never share a photo of your ticket online with the QR code visible. This would make it easy for someone to counterfeit your ticket.
Regardless of what name is on your ticket, make sure that you have your own valid, government-issued photo ID with you when you arrive. You will not get in without one (this is for age verification and liability, not because it has to match your ticket). You will NOT be allowed in without a valid, government-issued photo ID (drivers license, passport, military ID). If you just drove 3,000 miles without it, you’re driving 3,000 miles back. Sorry.
A note about SCALPING:
Selling a ticket for more than its value (scalping) is illegal in the state of California and it is definitely frowned upon by the community.
Anyone known to have sold a ticket to our event for more than the face value of a ticket plus fees may find themselves banned from future Wasteland World Inc. events.