Burning Man 2026 opens with thousands pouring into the Nevada desert

Burning Man 2026 opens with thousands pouring into the Nevada desert

Workers were busy building the pop-up city and giant art installations in Black Rock City.

Eight Hours to the Burn: Burning Man 2026 opens with a miles-long desert traffic jam

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. - The annual pilgrimage to Burning Man began with a familiar rite of passage: hours of sitting still in the desert. On Sunday, Aug. 30, the first full day of Burning Man 2026, the line of cars, RVs, and trucks waiting to reach the gate stretched for miles across the Black Rock Desert. Wait times peaked at more than eight hours before easing to about five hours by evening,...

'Burning what?!' Annual gathering in Black Rock Desert reminder of hope amid chaos.

In late August, about 80,000 people known as “Burners” will load up their vehicles with whatever they can cram into their ride and head toward “the middle of nowhere” in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.