TomorrowWorld cut Saturday shuttles mid-storm — fans were stranded in mud overnight

TomorrowWorld, the U.S. spinoff of Belgium's Tomorrowland festival, ran its third edition September 25–27, 2015 on 8,000 acres of farmland in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, promoted by SFX Entertainment. Rain through the weekend turned the unpaved grounds into deep mud, and on Saturday organizers restricted the shuttle buses and rideshare access that non-camping attendees needed to leave the site each night.

With roads into the venue judged too muddy for vehicles, thousands of ticket holders were stranded for hours — some paid surge-priced Uber fares that ran into the hundreds of dollars, others walked miles through mud in the dark, and reports described wheelchair users unable to cross the flooded pathways at all. Organizers barred re-entry for non-camping fans on the final day, effectively canceling Sunday for anyone who hadn't already paid for a campsite.

SFX Entertainment, already financially strained with its stock trading under a dollar before the festival, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2016. TomorrowWorld did not return in 2016 and has not been held since, ending after three editions.