Manchester, TN
Great Stage Park — "the Farm" — is a roughly 700-acre outdoor event site in Manchester, Tennessee that hosts the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival each June.
Great Stage Park — “the Farm” — in Manchester, Tennessee is the home of Bonnaroo, the camping music festival famed for its all-night, all-genre, radically communal vibe across a sprawling site in the rural South.
It's about an hour southeast of Nashville, deep in the Tennessee countryside.
Below are the area stays and Nashville options fans use as a base for Bonnaroo.
Hotels, bars, restaurants and things to do near Great Stage Park in Manchester — every pick web-researched and source-cited, closest to the venue first.
A Hilton property with indoor and outdoor pools and free breakfast, on the Woodbury Highway corridor near festival-adjacent restaurants. It is one of the closest brand hotels to Great Stage Park and books out months ahead for festival week.
An IHG hotel attached to the Manchester Conference Center, about two miles from the festival grounds near I-24 Exit 114. Its location puts festival-goers minutes from the gates and from chain dining.
An all-suite hotel off I-24 with free cooked-to-order breakfast, well-reviewed by Bonnaroo attendees. Murfreesboro is the main overflow city about 35 miles from the Farm, with properties in this cluster served by the festival shuttle.
A family-owned Tennessee winery just off I-24 Exit 111, very close to the Bonnaroo campgrounds, with a tasting room and a history of Bonnaroo-timed events — the closest sit-down drinking destination to the Farm.
Manchester’s first craft brewery, doubling as a restaurant and community hangout with a large house beer selection. It sits on the Woodbury Highway corridor near the festival — a natural stop for a local craft pint before heading to camp.
A bourbon-and-beer bar on Murfreesboro’s downtown Public Square with daily live music and a well-rated kitchen. For the large contingent of fans basing in Murfreesboro, it anchors a walkable square of bars and restaurants.
A British-expat-run spot serving bratwurst, bangers and mash, burgers and other European dishes, with German beers and an outdoor beer garden — a distinctive, well-regarded local pick for festival-goers near the Farm.
A long-running classic American burger diner, the top-rated restaurant in Manchester and a festival-week ritual — it even puts a "Bonnaroo Burger" on the menu. A reliable, fast off-site meal before or after the gates.
A long-time family-run Italian and pizza institution, described as the best pizza in Manchester and the surrounding area. Pizza and pasta feed groups cheaply, making it a practical, fan-friendly meal during a camping weekend.
Great Stage Park in Manchester is tracked across 1 event. Here's how fans build a trip around it:
Structured facts on this page (capacity, opening year, architect, ownership) are compiled from public reference databases and verified against venue coordinates.
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Capacity information for Great Stage Park is not yet available.
Bonnaroo 2026 are among the events held at Great Stage Park.
