The biggest party on Planet Earth is devoted to community art, self-reliance, and self-expression forms an against-all-odds city in the desert, a culture of possibility, a network of dreamers and doers.

There’s the Burner Byway… and then, in the weeks surrounding the event, there’s The Long, Strange Drive to Burning Man. If you’re planning a leisurely road trip towards the end of August, better read this first. 

Once you’ve had the chance to experience The Black Rock Desert beyond Black Rock City, you’ll be seeing this iconic Playa through a whole new prism. #NVHistory

From big-time music festivals to Burning Man, murals coloring entire towns to wild sculptures rising from the desert, fine-art galleries to small-town artisan cowboy craftery… there’s enough camera-hogging art gracing Nevada’s urban districts, rural neighborhoods, and even wide-open natural spaces with exciting layers of creativity. 

Follow the route burners take on their journey “home” to Burning Man, visiting Reno, Pyramid Lake, delightfully eccentric Gerlach, and the Black Rock Desert wilderness beyond.

From downtown Reno’s West Street to Keystone Avenue, and Interstate 80 to West Second Street, discover 20 city blocks of art installations that first debuted at Burning Man, redeveloped hotel and residential units, retail stores, restaurants, and a half-mile long ribbon of color, light, sound, art and entertainment experiences that redefine a whole new Biggest Little City in the World.

If the International Car Forest of the Last Church’s open air gallery didn’t give enough of a Burning Man charge, head for downtown Goldfield to get up close and personal with permanent art cars that have graced Goldfield’s historic main drag for decades.

Though the Playa has been made famous by the biggest party in the world, Nevada’s Burner Byway Road Trip is about everything BUT Burning Man. Freedom is in this desert. Always here, open, and waiting along the #BurnerByway.

Though the Playa has been made famous by the biggest party in the world, Nevada’s Burner Byway Road Trip is about everything BUT Burning Man. Freedom is in this desert. Always here, open, and waiting along the #BurnerByway.

Burning Man art finds a permanent home in Fernely as a part of Burning Man’s “Big Art for Small Towns” program.