Approximately 70,000 people gathered in Northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert for Burning Man 2025, a weeklong celebration of art, music, community, and self-expression. Black Rock City is a temporary, clock-shaped semicircular city centered on the Man with hundreds of artworks scattered across the playa. Motorized travel is restricted to registered art cars and mutant vehicles, making bicycles the dominant mode of transport. The playa is a flat remnant of Lake Lahontan composed of super-fine alkali sand, and surface conditions vary dramatically from hard-packed to dusty to muddy after rain. Daily cycling distances commonly exceed 20 miles; cruisers are common and cheap.
Last week, roughly 70,000 people gathered in Northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert for Burning Man 2025. This annual event draws an international crowd to what is arguably one of the biggest parties in the world. And while it is undoubtedly a massive party on a scale that's pretty hard to fathom, Burning Man is so much more than that. It's a celebration of community, art, music, and self-expression.
Made in the shape of a clock, the semicircular city wraps around the playa with the man structure in the exact center, along with hundreds of works of art scattered about. Once you're there, driving vehicles around the playa is not allowed other than "art cars" (some of which are extravagant rolling sound stages) and "mutant vehicles," which require special registration.
The Black Rock Desert playa is a remnant of Lake Lahontan and a dry lake bed comprised of super-fine alkali sand. It is perfectly flat, so it is often super easy to ride around on, but the surface conditions vary from year to year depending on the previous winter and recent weather events. Some years, it's gloriously hard-packed; on others, it's super dusty, and when it rains, it becomes the sloppiest mess you have ever seen.
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