AI-assisted summaryCountry Thunder Arizona is at Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence.Pay for parking in advance, arrive early and have your tickets ready.Country Thunder shuttle service is available from Mesa and Apache Junction.Country Thunder Arizona is a huge event.In 2023, it drew an average of 25,000 people a day to Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence for four days of country music and other related shenanigans.In 2024, the biggest draw was Jelly Roll, who was thrilled to announce in the midst of his performance that he’d been told he was playing to 26,000 people.When Morgan Wallen played in 2022, the daily attendance was closer to 34,000.Country Thunder Arizona 2025 is April 10-13 and roughly half of the attendees will spend the weekend in the more than 8,000 campsites at Canyon Moon Ranch that sell out long before the festival begins. Many arrive as early as Wednesday morning when the campsites open.Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.That’s when Country Thunder traffic is traditionally at its worst.The other ticketholders drive in every day along the stretch of two-lane blacktop that separates the ranch from U.S. 60.That’s just a bottleneck waiting to happen.Country Thunder rep: ‘I advise people to pack their patience’As Country Thunder digital media specialist Megan Benoit says, “I always advise people to pack their patience. There’s no place you can go where there are thousands of people coming to the same place and leaving the same place where it’s going to be completely seamless. So just be prepared that there are other people trying to get there.”It doesn’t have to end in you cursing the traffic for making you miss the first half-hour of the artist you spent all that money to see, though.Not if you plan your trip accordingly when Country Thunder Arizona 2025 returns with headlining performances by Riley Green, Keith Urban, Hardy and Bailey Zimmerman.Avoid the traffic: Get to Country Thunder earlyThe best way to avoid the worst traffic is to stop procrastinating. Get behind the wheel early and point your car toward Florence.If you plan to arrive at Country Thunder just in time to catch your favorite headliner, that plan is all but guaranteed to blow up in your face.“I always says it’s better to discover a new artist at 4 o’clock that you may not have heard about than to be sitting in your car waiting to get into the gate,” Benoit says. “So make a full day of it. Come early. That way you’re avoiding that high-traffic time.”Here’s when Country Thunder traffic is the worstThat high-traffic time, or what Benoit calls “the dinnertime rush,” is typically between 6 and 7 p.m. because so many ticketholders are just in it for the headliner and the artist playing right before that marquee name.“The headliners and direct support acts are the ones bringing in the large crowds,” Benoit says. “So we see a lot of traffic at that time, which is why I encourage people to come check out those early artists.”The direct support acts take the stage at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday.But live music starts at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 2 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday.Traffic should be at its heaviest on Wednesday morning and during the dinnertime rush on Friday for Keith Urban and Saturday for Hardy.Have your ticket ready to get in more quicklyAnother way to ease the process is to pay for your parking in advance and have your ticket ready when you pull up to the gates.“I’ve always tried to encourage people to have their tickets ready at the gate because a lot of that holdup is people showing up at the gate and fumbling with their phones, trying to find that PDF,” Benoit says.“If you either have it prin …
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