Stagecoach 2026 guide: What to know about the festival — and how to watch from home

Trade the angiosperm crowns and sneakers for a cowboy chapeau and immoderate boots, due to the fact that Coachella has moved retired of the Empire Polo Club successful Indio and the Stagecoach Festival is moving in, April 24 to 26.

Post Malone, who headlined Coachella successful 2025 and played a acceptable of state covers astatine Stagecoach successful 2024, is backmost to header the state euphony fest on with Lainey Wilson and Cody Johnson.

From what to cognize astir the festival to however you tin ticker from home, here’s your usher to Stagecoach.

When is Stagecoach? Where is the venue?

Stagecoach 2026 runs April 24 to 26 astatine the Empire Polo Club astatine 81-800 Ave. 51 successful Indio.

Who is performing astatine Stagecoach 2026?

This year’s main signifier headliners are Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Post Malone.

You tin besides expect large sets from Brooks & Dunn, Bailey Zimmerman and much rock-centric acts similar Journey, Counting Crows, Third Eye Blind and Bush. Then there’s Ludacris, Pitbull and Diplo, who is bringing backmost his HonkyTonk creation country arsenic good arsenic performing.

See the afloat lineup.

Fun fact: Mane Stage performer Teddy Swims played the main signifier astatine Coachella the past 2 weekends, but we haven’t heard if he’s bringing retired David Lee Roth again. And Diplo was besides astatine Coachella with Major Lazer.

What’s caller astatine Stagecoach this year?

The large happening is the caller Mustang Stage. Back successful the aboriginal years of Stagecoach, determination was a structure with the aforesaid sanction that featured a batch of cowboy poets and bluegrass. It was overmuch smaller than what we’re expecting of this caller one, which is acceptable up wherever the monolithic Sahara Tent is during Coachella.

Anyone who has tried to spot 1 of the large artists implicit astatine the Palomino Stage during Stagecoach successful caller years knows however it tin easy overflow, truthful this should easiness immoderate of that congestion for artists similar Journey, Hootie & the Blowfish and the Red Clay Strays.

It’s besides taking implicit the late-night sets with Diplo, Pitbull and Ludacris that had antecedently been done astatine the Palomino.

Can I inactive get tickets to Stagecoach? How overmuch are passes?

Yes, determination are inactive passes disposable for Stagecoach 2026. A wide admittance three-day walk is $619. (There’s besides a woody if you bargain a six-pack of GA passes that comes retired to $569 per pass.) You tin get a GA combo walk that includes shuttle proscription starting astatine $699. There’s besides a GA walk that gets you entree to the Rhinestone Saloon adjacent to the Mane Stage and the Rose Garden Saloon adjacent to the Palomino Stage for $974.

If you privation to get adjacent to the Mane Stage, a Corral Standing Pit walk is $1,899. Corral reserved seating runs from $1,199 to $2,299. The chairs are folding camping chairs, and the highest tier enactment has portion holders. If you acquisition immoderate of the seating options, you tin instrumentality the seat location arsenic a souvenir Sunday night. Corral passes (standing oregon seated) travel with entree to the much exclusive Corral Saloon arsenic good arsenic the Rhinestone and Rose Garden Saloons.

You tin bargain tickets astatine stagecoach.com/passes.

What’s the quality betwixt wide admittance and Corral passes?

Stagecoach is antithetic from Coachella successful that if you privation to beryllium adjacent to the largest stage, you volition request to wage for a Corral pass. Those successful the Corral Standing Pit volition beryllium the closest.

If you person a GA pass, beryllium prepared to conscionable spot the biggest acts connected a screen. For Stagecoach, determination are aggregate screens acceptable up successful the tract for the wide admittance areas — and usually a provender with a surface implicit by the Beer Barn, too.

GA passholders who are consenting to basal typically person entree to an country person to the Mane Stage than those with blankets oregon low-backed tract chairs.

That being said, GA passholders person traditionally been capable to get up adjacent astatine each of the different stages.

When does Stagecoach merchandise acceptable times?

Stagecoach acceptable times are already posted. Similar to Coachella’s surprises, the festival precocious announced that Dan + Shay are connected the measure for Friday connected the Palomino Stage.

When bash gates unfastened astatine Stagecoach? How precocious does the euphony go?

The parking tons unfastened astatine noon regular and the gates unfastened astatine 1. Everything ends astatine midnight oregon earlier.

As the venue opened, state euphony fans made a tally crossed the tract to unafraid bully concert-viewing positions connected the archetypal time of Stagecoach successful 2022.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Who says you can’t get thing for escaped anymore? Day parking is escaped astatine Stagecoach.

Like I recommended for Coachella, driblet a pin successful your telephone arsenic soon arsenic you parkland truthful you tin find your car astatine the extremity of the night.

There is simply a rideshare lot. You tin besides acquisition a shuttle walk for $130. There’s besides preferred parking for $299.

Stagecoach doesn’t person arsenic galore radical arsenic Coachella, truthful the postulation usually isn’t arsenic bad, but Monday tin get congested arsenic radical caput location from the desert.

If you privation to debar postulation oregon you’re looking for immoderate off-site adventures during Stagecoach, cheque retired these 14 amusive godforsaken broadside quests.

Where bash I enactment my stuff? Are determination lockers? Is determination a spot to complaint my phone?

Stagecoach inactive has medium-sized lockers disposable to rent. They are $84 for the play and you tin reserve them successful advance. Small charging lockers for devices are $74 for the weekend.

Backpacks 18” x 13” x 8.5” oregon smaller are allowed wrong the venue.

Beyond the charging lockers, determination are places astir the grounds wherever you tin complaint your ain devices. Bring your ain cable/plug.

A antheral drinks a brew from a woman’s footwear portion watching Willie Nelson & Family execute connected the Mane Stage connected the 2nd time of Stagecoach 2024.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

What’s the upwind going to beryllium similar for Stagecoach and however tin I hole for it?

It’s looking similar we’ll deed a precocious of 90 degrees connected Friday, 81 connected Saturday and 78 connected Sunday, according to Accuweather. The lows volition dip into the 50s, though, truthful you mightiness privation to propulsion successful a long-sleeved flannel garment oregon hoodie for erstwhile the prima goes down and Brooks & Dunn sing astir dancing nether a neon moon. Since blankets and towels (50” x 70” max) are besides allowed, you could besides rotation yourself up into a Stagecoach burrito, I suppose.

You tin besides bring successful handheld fans (paper oregon battery-powered).

Plastic personal-sized h2o misters are allowed in, too, but they person to beryllium bare erstwhile you get there.

The upwind doesn’t look excessively atrocious close now, but it volition inevitably footwear up. Don’t bring a cough location arsenic a souvenir. Bring a look covering similar a bandanna oregon a PPE mask.

The godforsaken is hot. Are determination h2o stations?

I cognize tons of radical bask the brew astatine Stagecoach, but it’s not the aforesaid arsenic water. My mantra successful April is dehydration is superior business. And if you’re drinking beer, you decidedly privation to support drinking water.

The bully quality is that determination are aggregate refill stations astir the grounds, and if you request to bargain a vessel of water, it’s lone $2.

Like Coachella, you tin bring successful an bare refillable container, but it needs to beryllium integrative (no metallic oregon glass) and 64 ounces oregon less. Empty hydration backpacks are allowed, too.

For a escaped boost of electrolytes, the Electrolit booth is backmost with escaped samples betwixt the Mane Stage and Diplo’s HonkyTonk. (Pro tip: I stopped determination each time connected my mode successful during Coachella. Hydrate early, hydrate often.)

What’s the woody with nutrient astatine Stagecoach?

If you similar barbecue, you’re successful the close place. There’s a full batch of it astatine Stagecoach. Flavortown besides comes to Stagecoach with cooking demos passim the play courtesy of Guy Fieri and friends.

There are a just fig of vendors that were besides astatine Coachella, including Prince St. Pizza, Irv’s Burgers, Love Hour and Oh My Burger, the second 2 of which impressed Danielle Dorsey, 1 of our nutrient editors, astatine Coachella this year.

If you’re buying nutrient connected site, program connected $20 and up for astir entrees, with a fewer deals to beryllium had.

If you’re looking for freebies, the Electrolit and Coca-Cola installations are inactive determination from Coachella and Monster Energy besides has a abstraction wherever it’s giving retired samples. (Monster Energy besides has a conscionable and greet with Redferrin aft his show connected Saturday and a astonishment DJ acceptable connected Sunday.) As for escaped food, sometimes they walk retired samples to the assemblage aft the Guy Fieri demonstrations.

What other tin I bash portion I’m successful the desert? Is determination clip to bash thing extracurricular of the festival?

I’m gladsome you asked. Earlier this month, we enactment unneurotic a postulation of broadside quests astir the desert. Some, similar snapping a photograph of the Forever Marilyn statue successful Palm Springs oregon seeing the erstwhile Coachella festival creation installation “Sarbalé Ke,” are casual to bash earlier entering Stagecoach for the day. Others are much progressive and tin beryllium a large mode to miss that postulation coming backmost connected Monday.

If you’re looking for much options, we’ve got a Gen Z usher to eating, drinking and buying successful Palm Springs and edifice professional Bill Addison precocious updated his eating usher to Palm Springs.

How tin I ticker Stagecoach from home?

In caller years, Stagecoach has been streamed connected Prime Video, Amazon Music and Twitch.

The streams commencement each time astatine 3 p.m. Pacific. There are 2 channels acceptable up.

A circumstantial docket hasn’t yet been announced, but a property merchandise from Amazon says the watercourse volition see sets from Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Post Malone, Third Eye Blind, Avery Anna, Ludacris, Michael Marcagi, Pitbull, the Red Clay Strays, Wynonna Judd and Diplo.