Getting into the correct gate

[Bradders]

Always drove down from the north before, down the M5 and ended up at Gate D (west) 3 times and Gate C (east) once, although entering from any particular side was never planned.

This year we're coming from London and want to enter from the west, how do we make sure we manage this without accidentally getting diverted into the east carparks? All the way down the M4 to Bristol and then down the M5?

[UEF]

I too would like an answer to this. When you get to either it's just signposted "car park" and after queueing in traffic for hours it would take a strong will indeed to drive past looking for another entrance.

[Hsr1234]

I can't help you, but I will be interested to see what people suggest!

I posted a question yesterday asking the exact opposite. We want to end up in east, coming from Yorkshire and I wanted to check if we will definitely still get to east if we come down the A37 from Bristol.

(consensus seems to be that we will be ok,)

/topic/184735-best-route-from-north-west/">http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/topic/184735-best-route-from-north-west/

[Peroni]

To hit the west car parks you need to enter from the west so your plans to head in via m5 and Bristol would work. If you don't want such a diversion you can bomerang past the site via a37 and head back in on the A361.

[fur_q]

M4>M5 to Jct 23> A39> towards Glastonbury town then A361.

Or

M3>A303 to Podimore roundabout, (ignore festival signs) take the 3rd exit (towards Somerton), 2nd right (again signposted to Sommerton), follow B3151 towards Street, right at the roundabout (A39 towards Glastonbury town) then A361

[Glastonlocal]

at the podimore roundabout take the turning towards Street, not the A37.

[Bradders]

Directions in text always confuse me so hopefully this is clear enough

Red line is where we'd naturally be coming from so obviously no.

Green line is definitely ok but will take ages.

Blue line is what I would hoping would work, but I take it this won't?

Black line could work, or do you automatically get diverted once you get to the A37?

Yellow line seems to be what people are saying? Avoiding the A37 altogether?

Edit: Actually I think I misread. Black line should be ok?

Edited June 2, 2014 by Bradders

[Woffy]

Coming from the East i always ended up at Gate C (my preference for years). Ended up at B the last two times, through a mix of ignorance and blind eagerness and desperation to just 'get there'.

Someone on here said follow the blue route for Gate C.

Once i've confirmed that...that's where i'm headed / the plan.

No idea if UEF wants to try this to avoid the queuing debacle of last year...that i seemed to avoid despite only seeming to be 1 hour ahead of him in the queue.

[Glastonlocal]

Directions in text always confuse me so hopefully this is clear enough

Red line is where we'd naturally be coming from so obviously no.

Green line is definitely ok but will take ages.

Blue line is what I would hoping would work, but I take it this won't?

Black line could work, or do you automatically get diverted once you get to the A37?

Yellow line seems to be what people are saying? Avoiding the A37 altogether?

Edit: Actually I think I misread. Black line should be ok?

[Bradders]

Directions in text always confuse me

[TheParkAfterDark]

Black route would be my choice. Came from the SW last year via Somerton and into Glastonbury town before heading to West carparks. Barely any traffic on the road highlighted in black between A303 and Glastonbury town too

Edited June 2, 2014 by TheParkAfterDark

[badger80]

All the way down the M4 to Bristol and then down the M5?

[___S_o_m_a__]

Directions in text always confuse me so hopefully this is clear enough

Red line is where we'd naturally be coming from so obviously no.

Green line is definitely ok but will take ages.

Blue line is what I would hoping would work, but I take it this won't?

Black line could work, or do you automatically get diverted once you get to the A37?

Yellow line seems to be what people are saying? Avoiding the A37 altogether?

Edit: Actually I think I misread. Black line should be ok?

[Ted Dansons Wig]

M4 junction 17 A350 to Warminster. A361 to site

EDIT: just read OP. Ignore this if you want to go in at West.

Edited June 3, 2014 by Ted Dansons Wig

[geoffboycott]

Ref the Blue lined route, it's possible to knock about 30 mins (on a normal day) off that - but you will end up in the East car parks.

[Glastonlocal]

Don't take the M4. What the chap said about the red route via wells isnt a bad idea. Generally I advise people avoid that route because the traffic can get very bad when you get to Shepton Mallet, but I'm not sure its so bad these days now so many people travel in Tuesday night. But don't try to go from wells direct to the festival, there is a road but I gather it was closed last year. But its easy to get to Glastonbury town via wells.

[Big_Egg]

I'm staying in Warminster the night before but want to get to West, was thinking about the Shepton Mallett/Wells/Glastonbury Town route, but may do the Black line one, Google Maps says it's roughly the same time (about 20 minutes more than going direct), but I have no idea which one is likely to get clogged up more with traffic.

[Glastonlocal]

Black line will probably be better as the other way you'll hit traffic at Shepton Mallet and then the Glastonbury town traffic as well. But you'll get stuck when you come out around Glastonbury either way. As said before, the best route is the one I outlined above via the small roads through Ditcheat and West Bradley to West Pennard.

[Glastonlocal]

I shouldn't really say this as its the route we always use to get down to the 303 or the train stations and its gloriously traffic free as always around the festival time.

[fur_q]

Black line will probably be better as the other way you'll hit traffic at Shepton Mallet and then the Glastonbury town traffic as well. But you'll get stuck when you come out around Glastonbury either way. As said before, the best route is the one I outlined above via the small roads through Ditcheat and West Bradley to West Pennard.

[windy_miller]

Last year I came along the M4, then took the A350 all the way to the A303. Then up the A37 and then through a load of lanes (I ended up going past the entrance to Worthy View) to get to the A361 heading to the west side of the festival. It was no where near as bad as that sounds, though this was about 7 or 8pm on the Wednesday so there wasn't much traffic at all.

You could go M3 -> A303, though I have a love / hate relationship with the A303 so I try to avoid using it if possible.

[Glastonlocal]

I heard last year you can't go via North Wootton now whilst the festival is entering/exiting. However, I didn't try it myself. Glasto-worker posted a list of road closures somewhere.

I gather the route to West Pennard is not blocked (but the road closures to change) But any way over Pennard Hill via Pylle or Sticklynch is.

[swede]

Im coming from Hull and last year wanted to come in at gate D, which is the opposite side of the site to the one we'd usually come into. The two previous years we'd come in at gate C and had to carry our stuff across the full site, including 2011 when I had my kids with me, 2 and 4 at the time. I said Id never come in at Gate C ever again.

I just put the in the sat nav postcode for coming from Wales off the official glasto website, we ended up going down some very narrow country lanes and back roads but we ended up at Gate D.

[jamesrfisher]

I'll just follow my black line thanks

[TomfromStroud]

I've always found all the back roads more than a couple of miles from the site are fully open (even if they carry signs which claim they're closed) so just take a decent map and drive round on the little lanes.