Campers were in full party mode by early Sunday afternoon at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Club in Indio.

Scantily-clad women danced on top of an RV while a Tim McGraw tune blared from a pickup truck stereo.

The sweet smell of barbecue lingered in the air.

Huge coolers loaded with beer — hauled by hunky, shirtless guys — were delivered to friends cooling off in portable swimming pools.

Wearing a cardboard Coors cowboy hat, Bill Allen kicked back with a beer, trying to catch a second wind.

“We're resting,” the Yorba Linda resident said. “We're a little hungover from yesterday.”

In another area of the campground, Dustin and Jessica Sickles, both of New York, hung out with family.

Their trip to Stagecoach was a gift from his sister and brother-in-law.

“Brad tore it up last night,” Dustin Sickles said of Brad Paisley's closing performance Saturday night.

Still, he was disappointed Charlie Daniels didn't perform on the Mane Stage.

“You can't put a legend in a corner,” he said.

Brett Jensen, a Menlo Park firefighter, designed and built a portable bar just for Stagecoach, complete with Coors bar stools, a covered lounge area and overhead tea lights — plus a wading pool.

Jensen, his wife, a couple of firefighter pals and other friends made the trek together from the San Francisco Bay area.

At the far end of the bar, a pair of 25-foot poles stretched high into the clear desert sky.

Rope lighting illuminated the poles in the dark.

“We call that our navigational beacon,” Jensen said. “You can be in the concert and see these.”

Some in the crowd described the festival as a unifying experience.

“It's become this country community,” said Angela Graham of San Jose. “Everyone is so nice. It's two days of how the world should be.”

“Everyone loves country music,” said Candie Sickles of Los Angeles. “We all have something we can agree on.”