Venues in Black Rock City

Black Rock City, Nevada is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year, during Burning Man, a radical gathering experience.

At its maximum occupancy, the town has about 60,000 citizens and a post office, an emergency services crew, a volunteer police department, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants, and hundreds of art installations and participatory "theme camps".

Black Rock City is in the remote Black Rock Desert about 2-3 hours north of Reno, Nevada. Most travelers arrive by car, bus, truck, RV, or other motor conveyance.

The region is notable for its paleogeologic features, as an area of 19th-century Emigrant Trails to California, as a venue for rocketry, and as an alternative to the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, for setting land speed records.

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Black Rock City

Black Rock Desert, Pershing County, Nevada

Black Rock City, Nevada is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year, during Burning Man, a radical gathering experience. At its maximum occupancy, the town has about 60,000 citizens and a post office, an emergency services crew, a volunteer police department, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants, and hundreds of art installations and participatory "theme camps". After a week, the city is completely disassembled – much of it burned – leaving the stark, white desert exactly as bare as it had been when the event started.