An EDM Festival With a Sky Instead of a Roof

Badger is an EDM festival that traded the concrete jungle for actual wilderness. No stadium, no sea of strangers — just electronic music in the Colorado high desert, where the dance floor is dirt and the ceiling is the Milky Way.

The full spectrum lives here: driving house and techno, heavy bass and dubstep, and the experimental stuff that doesn't have a name yet. Multiple stages keep the energy moving from golden hour straight through to sunrise sets — and in August, the Perseid meteor shower throws in a light show no production budget could buy.

At 9,000 feet the air is thin, the stars are absurd, and the music feels closer to the bone. Come as you are, build something with us, leave only footprints. This is electronic dance music with its shoes off. Enjoy the transmission.