Getting in gear for Burning Man 2022?

Burning Man has never been on my bucket list, but it’s well attended by a number of Parkites who get a kick out of spending a week in the dust of the Nevada desert to attend that event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. 

They'll have to get tot Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Reno, or 472 miles (760 km) from Park City. 

The event started in 1986 around San Francisco, has been relocated to Nevada in 1991. The name of the event comes from its culminating ceremony, the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs two nights before Labor Day, that is falling, this year, on September 4. Because of the pandemic this is the first official festival after 2019 that attracted close to 80,000 people.

Since it slated to start on August 28, local participants are gearing up for the road trip loading bikes, cooler and provisions for that week long event. Will we ever go there? Maybe next year, our lungs don’t like it, but I guess we can always breathe more dust while walking or cycling naked around this iconic festival!