ACL 2017: Changes to the Park

The fine folks at C3 are always working out kinks in the viewing experience, even years after the launch of the festival.  Last year they added in a kiddie entrance and moved the Kiddie Limits stage over into the woods closer to Barton Creek.  This year, as you can see from the handy graphic that I borrowed from their announcement e-mail, they've expanded the southern border of the grounds and added in another entire entrance to the park. 



Which is awesome.  The more lanes to enter the park, the better, because no one wants to wait in lines instead of jamming to tunes.  But I'm very interested to see what that is like, having a strip of road right in the middle of the crowd for the Barton Springs stage, that will be weird.  Hopefully its no big deal - I'll get to check it out in person on Friday afternoon to see Royal Blood - but it seems like that would be weird to be standing in the middle of Barton Springs Road during a show.  It'll also make traversing the grounds a little more difficult, just in that there is more acreage to walk through, but hopefully that annoyance is offset by the fact that the crowd will therefore be more spread out and you won't have those painful choke points from past years.

They also claim that the change in stage location will help with sound bleed so that the shows won't interfere with each other.  On board with that as well.  Let's do this!