There’s a group of hippies that call themselves The Rainbow Family of Living Light or just the Rainbows for short. Every year since 1972 the Rainbow Family has held an annual gathering on public land somewhere in the country in the first week of July. The number of people varies each year but some gatherings have been as large as 30,000 people.
This year the Rainbow Family announced they would hold their gathering in Northern California at a site called Plumas National Forest which is about 2 hours north of Reno. Anyone is allowed to enter national forests for recreation but large groups (over 75 people) are supposed to get a permit which allows the forest service to plan for their arrival with things like porta-potties.
But the Rainbows are hippies and claim (perhaps accurately) that their group has no membership or leadership structure. In their view, they are just small groups…
