RV Rentals for the Mount Dora Arts Festival

The festival bans sleeping in your vehicle downtown and sells a dry slab instead. We can put you on a proper hookup site up the road.

Mount Dora Arts Festival canopies lining a historic downtown street with Lake Dora beyond.

Camper van parked on a bare concrete slab without electrical or water hookups.

Two days on closed streets

Three Nights, Ninety Rooms

One Inn in Town

The Lakeside Inn dates from 1883 and holds ninety rooms, and the town has very little else.

More Than 150,000

Organisers say the weekend draws more than a hundred and fifty thousand visitors, tour buses included.

Mount Dora is unusually direct about the question most festivals dodge. Sleeping overnight in your vehicle is prohibited downtown, and instead the organisers sell a dry slab on Highland Street near artist check-in for seventy-five dollars for the weekend. Dry means exactly that, no water, no power, no waste connection, three nights in February, which is fine with full tanks and a healthy battery and miserable without. The other thing exhibitors underestimate is the length of the trip: load-in starts Friday afternoon, vehicles must be clear of the event area by quarter past eight each morning, and breakdown cannot begin before four on Sunday. Three nights for two selling days.

Neatly organized camper van interior prepared for a Mount Dora arts festival road trip.

Partially assembled festival booth and travel gear during evening setup in downtown Mount Dora.

What the organisers allow

A Slab, Seventy-Five Dollars, No Hookups

The artist instructions are unusually blunt about this. Sleeping overnight in your vehicle is prohibited downtown, and in its place the festival sells dry camping on Highland Street near artist check-in for seventy-five dollars for the weekend. The same seventy-five appears in the prospectus as a booth add-on, so it is a settled arrangement rather than a one-off.

Dry means dry. No water, no power, no waste connection, for three nights in February. That is survivable in a rig with full tanks and a decent battery, and grim in one without. If you would rather have hookups, Lake County has them and we deliver across it - the Clermont end included.

Friday in, Sunday out

Three Nights for a Two-Day Show

The arithmetic catches people out. The show is Saturday and Sunday, but vehicle load-in starts Friday afternoon and everything has to be clear of the event area by quarter past eight each morning. Breakdown does not begin until four on Sunday and not a minute before. That is three nights away for two days of selling.

Which is why the vehicle you arrive in matters more here than at most shows. Our camper van sleeps four, parks like a car and does not need unhitching before you drive off to find dinner. Bigger rigs are fine too, they just want planning. Send us your booth dates and we will match something. [VERIFY: delivery fee and radius are still unconfirmed.]