Parklife Festival

Parklife returns to Heaton Park Saturday 20th June 2026.

Parklife is located in Heaton park which is around 5 miles north of Manchester city centre. It takes about 20 minutes from the city centre by bus, Metrolink or car. The postcode is M25 2SW.

Parklife gates open Saturday 20th June 11:30am - Sunday 21st June 11:00pm, 2026 (last entry 5pm)

No under 17’s - 17 year olds must be accompanied by a responsible guardian. (Maximum of 4 X 17 year olds per responsible guardian).

16 Year olds will not be permitted to enter Parklife and no refunds will be given. Proof of age will be required.

No, you are allowed to consume your own food & drink in the park outside the perimeter of the festival and in the queuing lanes. But once you reach the search lanes at Parklife you cannot take in any food or drink. There are a large variety of food and drink facilities within the festival that cater to different dietary requirements. Take a look at our app closer to the festival to see what food we’ll have on offer.

If you have a medical condition which relates to food or drink please contact our Access Officer to discuss options on access@parklife.uk.com

Yes – Sun cream or lotion sized at 200ml or less in original containers, vape liquid, and eye drops in standard plastic 10ml containers will be allowed into Parklife but contents may be tested on arrival.

The same regulations apply at Parklife as the rest of the country, you can smoke in the open air but not inside big tops and tents, look out for the ‘no smoking’ signs.

No pets are allowed within the Parklife event site. Assistance Dogs, however, will be permitted – please contact access@parklife.uk.com.

Portable chargers will once again be provided by 3Charging at Parklife with multiple locations in the arena. 3Charging is available to everyone, and Three customers get free charging via the Three+ rewards app. Just show the app on-site to claim your discount.

You can also bring your own portable phone charger.

Unfortunately we can’t issue you with a refund if you can’t make the event due to work commitments or your mates have dropped out. In these circumstances, we advise passing on your tickets privately to avoid losing out on the money spent. Refunds can only be offered if the event is cancelled or postponed, as agreed upon purchase.

A VIP ticket includes:

• VIP fast track entry
• Luxury toilets
• VIP area
• Multiple VIP bars and cocktail bars
• VIP chill out area
• Parklife VIP street food fair

Coach Travel To Parklife

Looking for the easiest and most sustainable way to get to Rockstar Energy presents Parklife? Big Green Coach returns as the official travel partner, providing hassle-free day return coach services directly to the festival gates.

Let Big Green Coach take the hassle out of planning your travel so you can focus on what matters! Secure your seat from one of 22 UK pick-up locations and let Big Green Coach do the rest.

DAY RETURN COACH: Your carbon-neutral coach will get you to the festival gates before the music starts and return to your pick-up location after the headliners. You won’t need to worry about queuing for the tram or booking expensive hotels and taxis. Got a weekend ticket? Travel both days and sleep in your own bed!

PICK-UP LOCATIONS: Travel from Barnsley, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Bristol Parkway, Chester, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London Victoria, Loughborough, Nottingham, Preston, Sheffield, Stoke on Trent, Warrington, Wrexham and York.

Travel sustainably with the UK’s largest events travel company from just £45. Book in advance to secure your return seat for just £1 and pay the rest in bitesize monthly instalments.

Trams will operate every six minutes from Victoria to Heaton Park during the day. For entry to Parklife please use the Heaton Park stop, located close to the West Gate entrance.

The transport ticket – offering travel by bus from Manchester City Centre to Heaton Park – is available to buy in advance with your festival ticket.

It costs £5.50 for Saturday or Sunday, or £11 for the weekend. We encourage you to purchase your ticket in advance to help reduce queuing times at the departure point via the Manchester Bee Network.

On the return tram journey, Heaton Park Metrolink stations will be closed from 21:00. Please use Bowker Vale Metrolink station instead.

Bus

The Parklife Shuttle will run continuously during the day, departing from the corner of Aytoun Street and Minshull Street (M1 2DD), near Piccadilly train station.

Journeys take around 30 minutes with drop-off right inside the festival site.

On Saturday the first bus to the Park will depart at 09:30 with the last bus departing at 16:30.

On Sunday the first bus to the Park will depart at 10:30 with the last bus departing at 16:30.

On both days, buses will depart at least every 10 minutes or when full.

We anticipate queues for bus services at the busiest times of the day. Between 13:00 and 15:00 queues are expected to reach up to 45 minutes. Please allow additional time for travel or consider travelling earlier in the day for a quicker journey.

On both days, the return bus service will depart from inside the Park to Manchester City Centre, beginning at 18:30 and will continue until the site is clear.

As soon as a bus is full it will depart, dropping passengers off at Shudehill Interchange in the city centre.

Tram

Post-event, please use the Bowker Vale stop which is located near the South Gate exit. On the return tram journey, Heaton Park Metrolink stations will be closed from 21:00. Please use Bowker Vale Metrolink station instead.

Trams will operate every six minutes from Victoria to Heaton Park during the day. For entry to Parklife please use the Heaton Park stop, located close to the West Gate entrance.

Post-event, please use the Bowker Vale stop which is located near the East Gate exit. On the return tram journey, Heaton Park Metrolink stations will be closed from 21:00. Please use Bowker Vale Metrolink station instead.

Official Parklife car parking at Heaton Park is now available through Parklife's website.

In order to facilitate this year’s Parklife event there are a number of roads closed at the end of the event & roads with traffic orders in place around Heaton Park. Please expect delays in leaving the car park.

If you are being picked up or are picking up a relative or friend, there is a nominated pick up point at Sainsbury’s Superstore car park off Middleton Road, M9 0QS. this will be open from 22:00 & you can wait here safely to be collected or to collect people.

There is absolutely no on-street parking around the event site, and there will be a number of roads closed around Heaton Park. Traffic wardens will be patrolling the area around the site and your car will be towed and impounded by the wardens. If you are driving to Parklife, please use the official event car park.

Please note Junction 19 of the M60 will be closed from 19:00 on both nights.

Taxis are a very popular way of leaving Parklife.

There will be a Manchester Hackney Carriage Taxi Rank in Blackley New Road and a Bury Hackney Carriage Taxi Rank outside the Woodthorpe pub on Bury Old Road.

Please be aware of unlicensed taxis. These are unregulated and could be unsafe.

Customers booking their own private hire vehicles need to to direct them to the pick up point at Heaton Park Sainsbury’s.

There will be increased congestion and various road closures in place around the Parklife site over the weekend.

Roads will be busiest as fans make their way to the site from 10:30 to 16:30 and after the end of the event from 10:30 to 00:30 on both days.

If you are getting home by car, there is a designated pick-up point at Sainsbury’s on Heaton Park Road, which will also be signposted. If you are driving to and from the designated pick-up point, please be aware that Junction 19 of the M60 will be closed from 19:00 on both nights. Access to the pick-up point will be via Victoria Avenue and Middleton Road.

We anticipate that there will be long queues for bus services post-event at Parklife, so you may find it quicker to walk.

Heaton Park is around a one hour walk from Manchester City Centre.

There is a clear walking route along Bury Old Road which will be signposted to and from Manchester City Centre to Parklife.

The quickest route for walking begins by leaving through the South Gate and turning RIGHT.

We encourage the use of bicycles, there will be a bike rack in the car park so be green and ride to Parklife!

Parklife provide a 2:1 ticket scheme for individuals who would be unable to attend their events without bringing an Essential Companion. Once you have bought a full price ticket, customers should fill in the access requirement form and provide Parklife with documentation in order to receive your Essential Companion ticket.

For any other assistance, please email access@parklife.uk.com

Please Note: Essential Companion tickets come at no extra charge.  Please do not buy a ticket for your Essential Companion as these tickets will not be refunded.

Before applying for a Essential Companion ticket, please make sure you have one of the following forms of evidence available to support your application:

• Access Card with the +1 symbol (for a 2 for 1 ticket)
• DLA/PIP or equivalent (dated within the last 12 months)
• Medical Professionals letter – reviewed case by case
• Deaf or blind registration
• Nimbus Access Card
• Both sides of your blue badge – only accepted as evidence for Accessibility parking
• A letter from a doctor or other medical professional confirming you could not attend the festival alone (for 2 for 1 ticket) and/or have a disability or medical condition that requires you to use the car park (for vehicle passes).

These documents will need to be sent over alongside evidence of your ticket. All documents sent, will be kept securely and destroyed after the applications have been processed.

Your application may take up to 4 weeks to process, you will be sent an email confirmation. Your Essential Companion ticket will need to be printed off and brought with you to the festival.

Metrolink: There are two tram stops within close proximity to the Parklife festival site; Heaton Park and Bowker Vale. Heaton Park is closer to the site, and is across the road from the East gate entrance, however this is the least accessible entrance and the Access Reception is on the other side of the festival site. It is recommended that you arrive at Bowker Vale and then walk the short distance to the Access Entrance just off Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN. The Heaton Park tram stop will be CLOSED when the event finishes, for leaving the event you MUST use Bowker Vale.

Taxi: Ask your taxi to drop you at the at the Lakeside car park which is just off Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN.

Bus: The bus stop will drop you at the North Gate of the festival site, however it is equidistant to walk to the Access Reception, so please follow the Access signs.

Parking: The Access Car Park is located in the hard standing car park at Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN, it is beyond the public car park, and is adjacent to the Reception.

Bike: The bike store is located just off Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN, it is the hard standing car park, which is adjacent to the Reception.

Walking: When heading from Bury Old Road, go beyond the South entrance on Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN, to find the entrance to the car park and then the Access Reception. When heading from Middleton Road, walk along Sheepfoot Lane and follow signs for public and Access Car Park, the Access Reception is adjacent to the Access Car Park.

SHEEPFOOT LANE CAR PARK WILL BE SHUT FROM 20:00 UNTIL 01:00 [we aim to open it before this time, but need to wait for the road to clear from customers leaving the site]. NO VEHICLES (INCLUDING TAXIS) WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OR LEAVE SHEEPFOOT LANE CAR PARK DURING THESE TIMES.

The most accessible entrance to Parklife is through the Access Reception, which is located in the hard standing car park of Lakeside car park, Sheepfoot Lane, M25 0DN. You must access via the Access Reception in order to collect any accreditation for access services you have been approved for. This includes: the viewing platforms and accessible toilets. The Access Reception will be open from 11:00 – 19:00.

Parklife takes place on the Papal field of Heaton Park. A majority of the ground is grass, please be prepared if the weather is wet, or if there has been an excess of rain in the days leading up to the festival, the conditions are likely to become very muddy.

Please note it is not Parkilfe’s responsibility to assist your navigation across site.

If approved beforehand, you will be issued with a Parklife Viewing Platform wristband and Essential Companion lanyard at the Access Reception which will allow a Essential Companion or one friend to accompany you to the viewing platforms. This lanyard can be transferred between people should you have several people within your group.

All general wristbands will be provided upon entering the festival in exchange for your ticket. Viewing Platform wristbands and Essential Companion Lanyards will be provided at the Access Reception by the Access Manager.

Admittance to the viewing platforms will only be given to those wearing a viewing platform wristband or in possession of an access lanyard.

There will be a viewing platform available at The Valley Stage and The Hangar stage. Please bear in mind that the FOH staff have been given permission to use the toilets within the viewing platforms.

Smoking or vaping is not permitted on the viewing platforms. Umbrellas cannot be used on the viewing platforms.

Parklife ask that customers using the viewing platforms are respectful to their fellow platform users and the stewards managing it. Any customer found to be disregarding these requests will be removed by security.

Please note that if the viewing platforms becomes very busy, priority will be given to access customers and Essential Companion will be requested to not use the viewing platforms.

Parklife have a number of accessible toilets around the festival site. These are located:

• In all toilet blocks
• The viewing platforms
• Access reception
• Medical and Welfare

These are for the exclusive use of access customers. Some access toilets that are not within the viewing platforms will all have a code lock which you will need to collect from the Access Reception. It is the access customers responsibility to put the combination padlock back onto the toilet door, failure to do so will enable non accessible customers to use the toilets.

Viewing platform accessible toilets will be manned by either security/penned in by fencing. The remainder will be within public areas and will be stipulated on the door that guests wearing access wristbands are to take priority, but please remember not all attendees will have accreditation and that not all disabilities are visible. IT IS IMPORTANT TO LOCK THE TOILETS AFTER USAGE IN ORDER TO PREVENT MISUSE.

If you require having prescriptive medication with you, please ensure that this is sealed in a clear polythene bag as it may need to be inspected upon arrival. Please understand that Parklife have a duty of care for all customers at the festival therefore searches will be put in place for everyone’s safety. There will also be a fridge in the Access Reception where medication can be stored at your own risk. You will also be asked to sign a disclaimer form stating that you understand this. Please bring some form of ID with you as we will only be able to hand medication back to the named person or their Essential Companion. Please note that the Access Reception will close at 19:00.

A number of our bars have lowered service points which can be used by Accessible Customers. You will need to show you accreditation to the bar staff member in order to use this service. We are working hard with our traders to try and ensure that all their menus are as accessible as possible.

Parklife asks that you don’t bring your own food and drink into the festival, however if you have any specific dietary requirements due to health conditions please notify us in advance to avoid confiscation of food and drink upon arrival. Please email access@parklife.uk.com

There will be general warning signs in all the Parklife performance areas if strobe lighting will be used. Due to the nature of the artists, it is likely that strobe lighting will be used throughout the performances. There will not be a warning immediately before a period of strobe lighting.

No, Parklife is not a camping festival and all attendees will be asked to leave the site at the end of the event at 23:00. No cars are permitted to park overnight in the allocated car parks.