Overview Boots in the Park is a traveling country music festival that plays one-day shows in city parks across California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, and its 2025 Albuquerque edition put Luke Combs and Cody Johnson in front of about 25,000 people at Balloon Fiesta Park. Each stop is built as roughly ten hours of country music with no camping, so the crowd drives in and sleeps at home. A typical stop draws 10,000 to 20,000. Activated Events, an independent Orange County producer led by Steve Thacher, started the series in 2017, after launching the dance party Wet Electric in 2010 and Coastal Country Jam in Huntington Beach. On site The festival moves between parks: Woodward Park in Fresno, Rillito Park in Tucson, Gilbert Regional Park, The Riding Park in San Juan Capistrano, the San Diego waterfront, Santa Clarita's Central Park and Balloon Fiesta Park in Albuquerque, with a first Las Vegas edition at the Event Center at Desert Breeze Park in 2025. Between sets there are line dancing lessons, whiskey tastings pouring 101 different whiskeys, interactive art installations and cornhole tournaments where the prize is a meet-and-greet with the artists. Albuquerque runs two days, and the 2026 Albuquerque bill added a Texas Country Stage, tequila tastings and local food vendors. Talent and Influencers Brooks and Dunn headlined Bakersfield and Norco in 2025. Old Dominion topped San Diego, Santa Clarita and the first Las Vegas show that year, with Jordan Davis, Tyler Hubbard, Nate Smith and The Band Perry on the same run, and Chris Young, Parker McCollum and Jackson Dean were on other 2025 bills. Activated booked Post Malone and Jelly Roll to headline Albuquerque in May 2026, with Cody Jinks, Clay Walker and the Randy Rogers Band on the Texas Country Stage. Track record Albuquerque joined the series in 2024 and went to two days in 2025. The Santa Clarita show in May 2025 was the sixth Boots in the Park of that year, and across all its festival brands Activated Events ran 30 event dates in 2025. Brand presence This listing sells one sponsorship across the whole series rather than city by city, so a partner's presence travels with the festival from park to park. Activated runs its own talent booking, marketing, operations and concessions at every stop.