Ticketing

Volunteer Ticket Offers for Lakes of Fire 2025 will go on sale on March 15, 2025, and sales will end on April 15, 2025, at 11:59pm (Eastern time)

General Tickets for Lakes of Fire 2025 will go on sale at 4:20PM on April 19, 2025 through a lottery to members registered in the lottery.

QUICK FACTS

We’ve worked hard to keep Lakes of Fire an affordable event for everyone. Last year, we elected to keep prices the same even though our suppliers categorically raised prices across the board. Regretfully, due to price uncertainties and rising costs of goods and services, we must increase prices this year. Tickets will be $195 for full price and $97.50 for half price, and there will be a small additional fee imposed by our ticketing and processing vendors.
Lakes of Fire, our completely volunteer-run 501(c)(3) event, operates on a tight budget to keep it as accessible as possible — this year’s ticket price has increased slightly due to inflation and rising costs. In facing these challenges, we’re asking for your support to continue fostering art, providing needs-based tickets, supporting local school art programs, and ensuring smooth event operations. Your potentially tax deductible donation*, no matter the size, is a crucial contribution to sustaining the spirit and community of Lakes of Fire. Thank you for considering a gift to help keep our unique flame burning.
Returning Volunteer tickets (for participants who logged eight or more hours at the 2024 event) tickets will be released on March 15th. Beware the Ides of March! You’ll have one month to purchase those tickets (until April 15, 11:59pm Eastern time) before they are lost to the mists of time.
General Admission Tickets (anyone else) will be released on April 19th at 4:20 PM (Happy Bicycle Day!) in a lottery fashion to users who have opted in to the lottery. If you’re a lucky winner, you will have two weeks to purchase those tickets before we move on to the next batch of winners.
The purchase deadline is in your offer email. It is exactly two weeks and zero seconds from the time the offer is sent. Don’t delay! If you miss your purchase window, the ticket offer is gone – it will automatically be offered to a new winner. Ticketing will work with you if you need a deadline extension, but only if you contact us by emailing tickets@lakesoffire.org before your personal deadline.
You must have a Volunteeripate account to purchase your ticket. Log in to check – https://volunteer.lakesoffire.org. For more information on how to do this, go further down this page.

TICKETING PROCESS IN 2025

At Lakes of Fire, we use Volunteerispate (volunteer.lakesoffire.org) as our ticket platform.

What does Volunteeripate do for you? Plenty. Volunteeripate tracks your volunteer hours and handles the ticket lottery. You’ll use Volunteeripate to pay for your ticket and receive your ticket. And, as the name implies, ticket-holders will be able to browse for shifts and sign up with your favorite departments. Additionally, event waivers and forms are handled through Volunteeripate.

We are thrilled by the elimination of many tedious manual processes by moving to this smart system. All you need to enter the ticket lottery – or receive your volunteer ticket offer – is to set up an account and complete the registration steps below.

Check out the Volunteeripate How-Tos page for tips with early entry, name changes, and more.

(Hit a snag? Contact us by emailing tickets@lakesoffire.org and we can help!)

REGISTER FOR A TICKET

Go to https://volunteer.lakesoffire.org
Create your account if you haven’t already. If you had an account from a prior year, use those same details to log in. You can log in either using Google Authentication (if you use Gmail) or by any other email address. Register only ONE email address, or else you may find multiple accounts – along with your hopes of attending – lost in a time vortex.
You will be asked to complete a brief questionnaire. Answer the questionnaire, click “Continue” and you will continue to the “Legal” section.
In the “Legal” section you must agree to the event waiver by checking the boxes next to each section. Then, scroll to the bottom and click the green button to continue.
Your registration is complete. You are now on Volunteeripate and you are entered in the ticket lottery. Congrats! The screen will look like this.
If you’re a returning Volunteeripate user, you can verify your hours from last year’s event. The green button in the upper left is the main menu. Open it and you can see all the parts of Volunteeripate. Straight away, click on Your Dashboard.

Look under “Previous Hours” and you should see your total volunteer hours as a single number: the total across all departments, pre-, mid-, and post-burn – all of them for that year. If you’re having trouble verifying your hours or they don’t look right, reach out to volunteers@lakesoffire.org. They can get you sorted.
Check your ticket status. If you don’t have a ticket offer yet, you will see this message when you log in: “You are registered for any upcoming ticket lottery drawings. If you win a ticket through the lottery, an email will be sent to your registered email.” We will be sending out offers in small batches until all available tickets have been purchased. So keep an eye on your email. You never know when your offer might come in.
Please feel free to explore Volunteeripate prior to getting your offer, although you can’t sign up for any shifts until you have purchased a ticket. Once you do get your offer…
Purchase your ticket. If you have a ticket offer when you log in, you will see the message “You have a ticket offer! Click here to buy your ticket”. Click the link to go to the checkout process. You will be able to register any minors, buy their tickets, and consider a donation as part of your checkout. Ticket offers are good for exactly 14 days and zero seconds after the send time on your offer email.

TICKETS FOR MINORS

If you have a child or minor family member to bring to Lakes of Fire, you will handle all the registration and ticketing for them on Volunteeripate. After you receive a ticket offer for yourself, you will have a chance to purchase tickets for your minors in Step 2 of the checkout. That step is where we collect information from you, the legal guardian, about your minors:

First and last name (Required)
Date of birth (Required)
Camping location (Required)
Your phone number (Required)
The minor’s phone number (Optional)
A photograph of the child (Optional)
Notes with any added information about them you would like to provide (Optional)

If you’re unsure if your minor family member will be able to join you at Lakes of Fire, you can also purchase minor tickets at a later time.

Who sees this information? And how long is it stored? Good question. During ticket checkout for a minor, you will see this information:

“All information provided regarding minors is stored securely and can only be accessed by event organizers. This information will only be accessed by Gate at check-in and if you report your child missing during the event. All information regarding minors will be purged from the system after the event.

“A minor only needs to be registered once by a legal guardian. Should you wish to add another legal guardian to your registered minor please visit the Your Dashboard link in the menu after completing your ticket registration to add additional legal guardians.”

TICKET TRANSFERS

Ticket Transfers will open for selected ticket types (volunteer, lottery, fire sale (if applicable), and theme camp directed) on April 19, 2025, at 4:20 PM Eastern Time.

A full-price ticket to Lakes of Fire in 2025 is $195, plus ticketing and processing vendor fees.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO..?

… BurnerTickets.com? Or SignUp.com?

We appreciate them for their years of work on our behalf and wish them well. Over the years, GLEA’s information needs have grown enough to support an in-house volunteer and ticket management platform.

… Lottery Groups?

Volunteeripate does not currently support lottery groups.

…Volunteer ticket offers?

We still offer volunteers tickets for 8+ hours and a half price ticket offer for 16+ hours. That information can be found here.

… the Low Income Ticketing/Discount Ticket program?

It’s the Need Based Ticket program now. You can learn about it on the Need Based Ticket Program page.

… the Directed Theme Camp Ticketing program?

It still exists too. Go on over to the Directed Theme Camp Tickets program to learn more.

… the Minor Registration Form?

This has been brought into Volunteeripate. Please see the Tickets for Minors section for more information.

… the Sound Install/Camp Form?

That form now lives in Volunteeripate.

… Medical Necessity, RV, & Infrastructure Vehicle Registration Application Form?

This has been brought into Volunteeripate. After you receive a ticket offer, you can find the “Medical Necessity Vehicle Permit” and “RVs, Trucks and Trailers” applications under Main Menu > Permits & Applications.