A while ago flite test did a fly in at baylands park. I’m not sure if it will be big enough for the amount of people that will be there, but it’s still pretty big. The big problem would be camping though, but there are parts of baylands that I have not seen before so there might be camping areas.
Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA? I can't see them allowing 100+ pilots flying out there, and there's no way the city would allow camping there. I mean, shoot - my field in San Diego has about the same amount of space as Baylands Park does, and we still wouldn't have enough space for us to pull off anything like Flight Fest, not with camping, build tents, power, etc.
Believe me, I would LOVE for there to be a Flight Fest West. I REALLY want one. But where do you do it, that will allow a couple hundred people to descend on the location and not have to worry about things like people accidentally flying over the freeway, or being able to contain a lipo fire quickly if one should go up? Flight Fest in Malvern this past year had multiple reports of people losing planes in the fields, or crashing out by the camping areas. We just have to figure out a location that will allow the safety risks to be kept to a minimum...