All parking at the Mendocino Music Festival is free. As always, to avoid inconveniencing others, please take care when parking not to block any driveways, garages or other features. While the Festival is an important part of the community, the community is also a very important part of the Festival, which could not exist without the local community’s participation and support.
Tent Concert Hall
For concerts at the Tent Concert Hall, there is street parking the length of Main Street (where the Tent Concert Hall is situated), on the next two parallel streets (Albion and Ukiah), and on all the cross streets (Heeser, Kasten, Lansing, etc.). The existence of numerous mid-block footpaths makes walks short and pleasant, even when parked 2-3 blocks away from Main Street. Because parking on Main Street is limited (and shared with our neighbor businesses), we ask our valued orchestra musicians to park away from Main Street.
There are four accessible parking spaces on Main Street just east of the Ford House driveway, and additional spaces inside the Ford House driveway. Patrons using wheelchairs or walkers, or for whom the uneven ground of the headlands could pose a challenge, are welcome to disembark directly to the Festival’s boardwalk, which connects the Main Street sidewalk no-parking drop-off area (at the main entrance to the grounds) to the northeast door (door number 2) of the Tent Concert Hall.
Aerial photo showing the boardwalk extending from Main Street to the northeast door of the tent. (Click to enlarge.)
Preston Hall
For concerts at Preston Hall (part of the Mendocino Presbyterian Church complex), there are spaces along both sides of Main Street and the surrounding streets. There is also limited parking in an on-premises lot that includes several accessible parking spaces, and an overflow lot (also used by beachgoers) behind and below the church. An accessible ramp leads to the front entrance.
Cotton Auditorium
For concerts at Cotton Auditorium in Fort Bragg, there is a free parking lot one block south of the venue, and copious parking on the surrounding streets. There are several accessible parking spaces immediately south of the venue entrance, and a no-parking drop-off area directly in front. An accessible ramp leads to the front entrance.
Matheson Performing Arts Center
For concerts at Matheson Performing Arts Center, there is parking in an adjacent lot, and on the surrounding streets. An accessible ramp leads from accessible parking on the north side of the venue to the front entrance.
Accessible Seating at All Venues
All Mendocino Music Festival venues offer accessible seating that may be reserved in the same manner and under the same conditions as all other ticket sales (online, in person, or by phone). Accessible seating consists of a designated wheelchair space (with no seat provided) next to a designated Companion Seat (seat provided), which patrons requiring accessible seating may reserve in advance (online, by phone or at the box office), or purchase at the door (subject to availability). Upon entry, volunteer ushers assist patrons with locating their reserved seats and getting situated.