Burning Man 2027

Burning Man builds Black Rock City, a temporary city of tens of thousands, on a dry lakebed in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada each year. The 2027 edition runs from 29 August to 6 September, with large-scale art, theme camps and the burning of the Man and the Temple.

For people who work in events it is a big logistics job in a remote place: building and taking down a whole city, with infrastructure, safety, medical, transport and cleanup crews working to a leave-no-trace standard. The 2025 edition had about 72,000 people on site.