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Black Rock City Airport

Gerlach, United States

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Temporary desert airport serving Burning Man festival annually.

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Gerlach, United States

Black Rock City Airport (FAA identifier 88NV) is a temporary, seasonal airstrip located on the Black Rock Desert playa in Pershing County, Nevada, near the town of Gerlach. It operates exclusively during the annual Burning Man festival, which typically takes place in late August and early September, serving as an air access point for festival attendees and organizers. The airport consists of unpaved dirt and playa-surface runways carved directly into the alkali flat, with no permanent infrastructure. Aircraft operations are managed by volunteers and are subject to strict festival-period rules and temporary FAA notices to airmen (NOTAMs). The facility accommodates small general aviation aircraft, including single-engine and light twin-engine planes. Outside of the Burning Man event period, the airstrip is not operational and the land returns to its natural desert state. The airport has no permanent buildings, control tower, or commercial airline service, functioning purely as a general aviation reliever during the one-week festival.

Getting to & from

Ground transport from the airstrip connects visitors directly to the Black Rock City festival grounds, which are located adjacent to the playa landing area.

Airlines here

No commercial airlines operate at Black Rock City Airport; it serves exclusively general aviation and private aircraft during the Burning Man festival.

Notable facts

›The airport operates only during the annual Burning Man festival, typically one week per year.
›Runways are unpaved and constructed on the alkaline Black Rock Desert playa surface.
›The facility has no permanent structures, control tower, or navigation aids.
›FAA temporary flight restrictions and NOTAMs govern airspace during the event.
›At peak festival periods, it has been reported as one of the busiest general aviation airports in the United States by operations.

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Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the Western United States. The event's name comes from its ceremony on the second to last night of the event: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, the Saturday evening before Labor Day. Since 1990, the event has been at Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Reno. According to Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey in 2004, the event is guided by ten stated principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.

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