Police officers in San Francisco said they arrested a man suspected of selling illegal narcotics at the Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gate Park last week.

Big Freedia performs with the SF Gay Men's Chorus on the Lands End Stage at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. on August 10, 2025.

Outside Lands is the largest independently owned music festival in the United States and draws more than 200,000 people each year. But when the first music set began at 1 p.m., the throngs hadn't arrived yet, and it was a more intimate audience for emerging artist Emilia Moore on the Lands End stage.

For many San Franciscans, the best weekend of the year is here. Outside Lands, the city's premiere music festival, kicked off today in Golden Gate Park with a scattered cloud cover keeping the temps in check - until the sun came out mid-afternoon to bless the stages with slightly warmer temps than last year.

San Francisco police arrested a man accused of selling ecstasy, ketamine and LSD on Friday at Outside Lands. Officers patrolling the music festival grounds at Golden Gate Park and the surrounding neighborhoods arrived around 3:40 p.

With the Outside Lands Music Festival underway at Golden Gate Park, many schools are holding fundraisers by opening up their parking lots for festivalgoers.