River and Roots Festival

Friday June 26th-Sunday June 28th

We spent this weekend at Watermelon Park Campground in Berryville, VA on the Shenandoah River.  We were there for the River and Roots Music Festival which featured Split String Soup, Woodshedders, Furnace Mountain Band, Town Mountain and David Grisman's Sextet (among others).  Amazing weekend of music and friends.

We typically bring our kayaks for music festivals here but due to the weather forecast we opted to go the easy route and float instead of paddling.


It rained for about 18 hours straight, starting around midnight Friday, but on Sunday we were able to get in a float on the river.  We piled into the newly christened "H.M.S. River Hummer" for a relaxing 1.5-2 hour float.  The river was moving pretty fast after all that rain.

We put in at Locks Landing about a 5 min drive from Watermelon Park and floated to our campsite at the park.  Easy peasy.