It's not just "space", just as sand is not just "sand". It needs good highway access, as attendance is in the thousands every weekend for months. It needs water

It's not just "space", just as sand is not just "sand". It needs good highway access, as attendance is in the thousands every weekend for months. It needs water, power, and some sanitation facilities (the old festival location used porta-potties). It needs a campground. It needs to be within an hour's drive of most of the sprawling Twin Cities metro. It needs to be reasonably dry and safe in the vagaries of Minnesota summer weather. It needs cooperative zoning and regulation from the local government. It needs to be not too expensive to get into shape. It needs to be land that won't suddenly find a "more valuable" purpose anytime soon (like, say, strip mining, or building a new subdivision). Likewise, it can't really have any current residences on it, or those will need to be bought out. It's really, really complicated and difficult. They can't just plop it down anywhere.