Warped Tour is back for the first time since 2025 and will be hitting three cities across the U.S.: Long Beach, CA, Orlando, FL, and Washington D.C.! So new and elder emos alike, don your hello kitty bows, your thick eyeliner, your hot pink blush, and your vans, and get ready for the festival of the summer!
Nostalgia of Warped Tour Through the Years
Here are some iconic Warped Tour facts you may not have known.
1996: Warped Tour, usually an outdoor event, had to be held inside the Capitol Ballroom because of venue issues back in 1996. It was the first year with Vans as a sponsor.
1996: The Vans Warped Tour went international.
1999: The tour went towards Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand.
2009: The tour won the Best Festival/Tour Award at the Rock on Request Awards.
How much are tickets?
2-day GA tickets for Warped Tour in D.C. cost $258.98 with fees, but bad news because the tickets are unfortunately sold out as of now. You can still join the waitlist here. Same goes for VIP passes, which cost $479.98 but are also sold out. Again, here’s the waitlist.
Who is playing?
The line up has a ton of old, nostalgia-inducing bands as well as new up and comers, making it a perfect event for both music discovery and seeing old favorites. This year’s Warped Tour has 90 bands playing, with some of our favorites including:
- Avril Lavigne
- Chiodos
- The Millionaire$
- Simple Plan
- Boys Like Girls
- Gideon
- Hawthorne Heights
- Saosin
- Silverstein
- Sublime
- Yung Gravy
- We The Kings
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Stratejacket
Check out the full lineup here: Lineup for D.C.
What’s the venue?
Warped Tour D.C. is going to be held at the Festival Grounds at the RFK Campus, located 2 miles east of the Capitol Building near the Anacostia River. The campus is 190-acres, making it a huge space for the festival that has multiple stages.
Where to stay
We could recommend checking out the Metro Map and seeing nearby metro stops, like Eastern Market and Potomac Ave. and finding hotels near there. On the official website, Warped Tour suggests some of their partnered hotels here, but Capitol Hill is a great neighborhood that you can look into for hotels, and we’d suggest booking fast.
How to get there
If you take the metro, which the venue is highly recommending you do, you can take the blue or orange line to the ‘Stadium-Armory’ stop, then it’s just a quick 8 minute walk from there. If you’re driving, the venue is off of I-295.
Where to park
Parking at RFK Campus is limited and will likely sell out fast, but if you’re trying to park, the lot opens at 8am and no overnight parking is allowed! Limited single-day parking tickets will be available until sold out.