Burl's Creek Event Grounds
 Boots & Hearts Festival, 2012 | |
  Burl's Creek Event Grounds Location of Oro-Medonte, Ontario | |
| Address | 180 Line 8 South |
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| Location | Oro-Medonte, Ontario |
| Coordinates | 44°28′48″N 79°31′23″E / 44.4800342°N 79.5229375°ECoordinates: 44°28′48″N 79°31′23″E / 44.4800342°N 79.5229375°E44°34′N 79°35′W / 44.567°N 79.583°W |
| Public transit | none |
| Owner | Stan Dunford, Republic Live |
| Type | Open-air |
| Genre(s) | Country music |
| Capacity | 70,000 |
| Record attendance | 35,000 |
| Acreage | 560 |
| Opened | 1994 |
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Burl's Creek Event Grounds is a concert venue in Oro-Medonte, near Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It most notably holds Wayhome Music Festival in July, and the Boots and Hearts Music Festival in August each summer. It is located on the south side of Highway 11 on Oro-Medonte's 8th Line, between Barrie and Orillia.
Established in 1994 by Don Hanney, a local business man, as a event grounds to host small country events such as: agricultural fairs, farmers’ markets and Highland games.[1] Burl's Creek has also hosted events like the Barrie Auto Flea Market. In October 2014 Burl's Creek Event Grounds was sold to Dunford, as well as many other adjacent lots totaling 560-acres.[2][3] Dunford began to develop the land to make way for a much larger event park.
Large outdoor music festivals in the area were held at Molson's Park from 1987 until that site was sold for commercial development in 2005.