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If you are new to Black Rock City for 2025, it is a primitive wilderness campout in extreme heat and dust conditions.

You need to bring everything to survive and remove everything without a trace.

There are no trash cans or dumpsters.

Every year about 1/3 of campers are new who prepare and figure it out. We hope you survive and return for year two and beyond!

Subscribe to Jack Rabbit Speaks announcements https://burningman.org/news/jrs/, create a Burning Man Profile https://profiles.burningman.org/ and follow the Burning Man Tickets https://tickets.burningman.org/.

Setting up accounts for tickets and buying tickets have strict dates.

For any campout or travel you need to be prepared. So you can start with a packing list https://www.google.com/search?q=burning ... cking+list and adapt it to your needs.

Did you know Burning Man is active across the world? Yes, we are https://regionals.burningman.org/.

Make connections to your regional! They can advise on logistics/transportations, camps and camping, and they can be good lifelong friends!

If you want to jump in and make connections, Black Rock City runs on over 30 departments. Department volunteering is explained at https://burningman.org/event/participat ... irst-time/.

Eplaya has a lot of experienced burners and specific proven suggestions on transportation, shelter, shade, food, tent cooling, daypack, water, power, wind, dust, outfits, and more you can search.

Eplayans have invented things like the Figjam cooler and Figjam lag screw anchors, built Center Camp shade, and built mutant vehicles. Burning Man has a focus on solar and sustainability if that is your interest.

Welcome to the most epic campout in the world where you will meet lifelong friends who can build and create anything and change the world!

My biggest challenge going to Burning Man for the first time, was the fear of the unknown. I've been to deserts before, but his was a survival thing. Deserts were scrubby, and rocky, with rocks and cactus. It was also in the early days of the internet, so there were no pictures or YouTubes to look at. I brought a camping shower bag, and figured there must be a tree I could hang it from.
Everything I needed was stuffed in 2 large suitcases.
I started with a small, cheap tent, then sleeping bag and pillow. I worked outward from there. Clothes, bike, lighting, goggles, dust masks, food and gifty things.
There is no need to bring everything for every contingency. If you need jumper cables, ask a few neighbors and they will help.
Read the many preparation guides, but use common sense.
You can watch as many hundreds of videos as you like, but nothing can really prepare you for the amazing city you have been dropped into. You can come solo, but will quickly make new friends and become part of the Burning Man family. You will start planning for the next year before you leave the playa.
It may have been 10 years back and we were having a massive dust storm while I was waiting at the gate to enter the city. I saw a van loaded with supplies make a U-turn and leave the line to head out. My assumption was they were first timers and they figured that this event and dust was not for them. I think of these people every now and then, and how the course of their life never got altered by going to Burning Man, and they will never know what they missed or the lifelong friends they would have made.
Read the prep guide in the link below, and I look forward to seeing you in the dust in 7 short months.
https://survival.burningman.org/