Lost Paradise: iconic NYE festival returns to Glenworth Valley in 2025

• The Lost Paradise NYE Festival is a Sydney icon, noted for its maddening end-of-year celebrations and vibrant pop-up lifestyle.
• The festival has announced dates for its 2025/2026 addition with a lineup on the way.
• Lost Paradise will also feature more wellness programs and engaging talks and discussions.
• READ MORE: Here’s why North Sydney will charge for the NYE fireworks this year.

Located just an hour’s drive out of Sydney, one of Australia’s most iconic New Year’s Eve camping festivals zips back onto the cards with Lost Paradise 2025.

We’ve already had some positive music festival news this week with Good Things upgrading its Sydney venue to meet demand, now it seems one of the state’s most beloved transitory bashes is planning another big year following a massive 10th anniversary celebration in 2024.

The camping festival has long been a sanctuary to cut the year off with a vibrant celebration, blending art, music, wellness and community so you’ve got a healthy balance of frenetic partying offset by a deep sense of restoration. After all, the Glenworth Valley is one of the most pristine patches of land you can find this close to Sydney, and it’s this formidable natural setting that gives Lost Paradise its sense of purpose and power.

The 11th edition of the camping festival will once again present an immersive, multi-sensory clash of global electronic and live music aggressively dabbed with forest rituals, wellness programs, art displays and a deep, encompassing sense of community. If that all sounds a bit new-age for you, then your intuition is firing in all the right directions; Lost Paradise is unapologetically new-age and bohemian by design.

But that’s what has made Lost Paradise such a powerful presence on Sydney’s end-of-year event calendar. It isn’t hard to get to this immersive world that’s been set up to pull you far from city life and into a fantastical world where surrealism is just as important as the sounds.

Who is playing at Lost Paradise 2025?

Lost Paradise has always managed to put together excellent, eccentric line-ups that speak to all kinds of trending genres.

The 2025/2026 lineup will be announced in the coming weeks, and we’ve got some pretty big expectations based on previous years. Last year, organisers managed to wrangle Fisher, Tinashe, Royal Otis and Flight Facilities to headline, supporting them with a huge burst of diversity from Marlon Hoffstadt and Sammy Virji to SG Lewis and Kita Alexander. The last year took an even bigger approach with Basement Jaxx, Bicip, Foals and Carl Cox.

As always, the program should go beyond the music with a round of speakers to fill the festival’s lifestyle and learning spaces. Previous years brought in the likes of Dr Karl, Aretha Brown and Plastic Free Mermaid.

Lost Paradise is gearing up for another massive turn of the calendar, locking in its return to Glenworth Valley on Darkinjung Country from December 28th, 2025, to January 1st, 2026.

When is Lost Paradise 2025?

Dates have now been locked in for the 11th annual Lost Paradise festival, with the festival kicking off on Sunday, December 28 and wrapping on New Year’s Day (Thursday, January 1, 2026).

This year, organisers have promised some substantial changes including reimagined versions of the festival’s Arcadia, Lost Disco and Paradise Club stages. We don’t yet know how the rest of the festival will look until the full line-up is announced.

Lost Paradise 2025

Where: Glenworth Valley, NSW2
When: Sunday, December 28, 2025 – Thursday, January 1, 2026