The traffic jam leaving the Burning Man festival eased up considerably Tuesday as the exodus from the mud-caked Nevada desert entered another day following massive rain that left tens of thousands of partygoers stranded for days. Event organizers began letting traffic flow out on the main ro…
RENO, Nev. — The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada playa, the long-ago floor of an inland sea.
Participants walk around Aug. 27, 2014, at the Burning Man festival on the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nev. Burning Man organizers don't foresee major changes in 2024.
An old wooden yacht art car rolls through the playa Aug. 31, 2012 at Burning Man. The event is permitted tentatively for the same 80,000 attendance cap next year.
Participants walk around Aug. 27, 2014, at the Burning Man festival on the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nev. Burning Man organizers don't foresee major changes in 2024.
An old wooden yacht art car rolls through the playa Aug. 31, 2012 at Burning Man. The event is permitted tentatively for the same 80,000 attendance cap next year.
