ATOMIKA takes place on a private campus in the high desert outside Roswell, New Mexico. It is remote by design. This page covers everything you need to arrive prepared, sleep well, and spend three days thinking about the nature of reality instead of wondering where the bathrooms are.
The Twistflower site is about fifteen minutes from Roswell. Roswell Air Center (ROW) is closest, with connecting service through Dallas and Phoenix. Most guests fly into Albuquerque or El Paso and drive, roughly three hours either way. Lubbock is a similar drive. Santa Fe is closer to four. The final approach is on maintained desert road. Any passenger vehicle handles it fine. If this is your first time, aim to arrive in daylight.
ATOMIKA takes place on a private campus in the high desert outside Roswell, New Mexico. It is remote by design. This page covers everything you need to arrive prepared, sleep well, and spend three days thinking about the nature of reality instead of wondering where the bathrooms are.
Camping guests can enter from 2pm on Thursday, May 6. General gates open at 8am Friday, May 7. The site closes at 11am Monday, May 10. Gates are staffed around the clock once open, and in-and-out is permitted all weekend with your wristband. Check-in is at the main entrance. Have your QR code ready on your phone or printed, along with photo ID. You will receive an RFID wristband that serves as your ticket, your campsite assignment, and your payment method on site.
Bring your own tent, park an RV, or book an ATOMIKA shiftpod that is pitched and waiting when you arrive. Campsites are grouped into named clusters across the property, each within a five to ten minute walk of Basecamp. Tent sites are roughly 15 by 15 feet. RV sites are 20 by 40 with no hookups, so come self-contained. Shiftpods sleep two to four and include cots, bedding, and a solar lantern. Off site, Roswell is fifteen minutes away with a full range of hotels. We have room blocks at three properties, listed with rates on the ticketing page.
Atomika consists of four main areas.
Hosts the welcome and closing ceremonies, afternoon sets, and nightly headliners.
A 70-foot structure holding 250 people. Wellness and ritual in the mornings, screenings and panels through the day, 360-degree audiovisual work at night.
The 174-foot Atlas-F complex. Guided daytime tours run in groups of fifty. After dark it becomes a speakeasy.
The center of everything: food and vendor market, gathering space, morning rituals, and the nightly fire circle.
Eight vendors operate at Basecamp from 7am to 2am, with meals in the $16 to $24 range and vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options at every one. Dietary needs beyond that, tell us at check-in and we will sort it. Drinking water is free. Five filling stations sit across Basecamp and the camping clusters, running around the clock. Bring a refillable bottle. In this climate you want three liters a day, and more if you are dancing. You are welcome to bring your own food and cook at your campsite on a propane stove. No charcoal and no open flame anywhere on the property. Ice is sold at Basecamp.
Two flush-restroom trailers at Basecamp, twelve stalls each, plus twenty serviced units distributed through the camping clusters. All are cleaned twice daily. Two shower trailers, ten stalls each, with hot water. Open 6am to 11am and 4pm to 9pm. Free with any ticket, towels available for a deposit.
Charging stations at Basecamp and at the edge of each camping cluster, free, with lockable cubbies if you would rather not sit with your phone. Cell service is honest-to-goodness spotty out here. Expect one or two bars on AT&T and Verizon near Basecamp and less as you move out toward the camping clusters. We run satellite-backed guest wifi at Basecamp for messaging and uploads. It will not stream video for a thousand people at once, and we would gently suggest that is part of the point. Generators are permitted at RV sites and must be off between midnight and 7am.
A staffed medical tent sits at Basecamp and operates 24 hours from gates open to gates close, with EMTs on duty at all times and an ambulance on site. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell is about twenty minutes away. Harm reduction and mental health support are available at the medical tent, no questions asked. Free earplugs, sunscreen, and electrolytes are at the info booth next door. Anyone on staff in an ATOMIKA shirt can radio for help. If something feels wrong, tell someone.
The Twistflower site is about fifteen minutes from Roswell. Roswell Air Center (ROW) is closest, with connecting service through Dallas and Phoenix. Most guests fly into Albuquerque or El Paso and drive, roughly three hours either way. Lubbock is a similar drive. Santa Fe is closer to four. The final approach is on maintained desert road. Any passenger vehicle handles it fine. If this is your first time, aim to arrive in daylight.
Free parking adjacent to the camping areas, a short walk from Basecamp. Day parking for guests staying off site is separate and closer to the entrance. Golf cart shuttles run continuously between the lots, camping, and Basecamp.
Early May in the high desert is warm and dry by day, often in the mid-eighties, and drops into the fifties overnight. Spring wind is real and can carry dust. Bring layers, a windbreaker, sun protection, closed-toe shoes, a refillable bottle, a red-light headlamp for the star parties, and something to cover your face on a gusty afternoon. Elevation is about 3,600 feet, so drink more water than feels necessary on day one.
No open flame or campfires outside the official fire circle. No fireworks, no drones, no glass, no weapons. No pets, service animals accepted. Quiet camping is available and enforced after midnight; general camping is not quiet, and the speakeasy runs late. The site is cashless. Your wristband handles everything. Pack it in, pack it out. Bin and recycling stations are at Basecamp and in every cluster. We are guests on this land and we leave it exactly as we found it.