What is the temporary city built for Nevada’s Burning Man festival called?
Answer
Black Rock City
The temporary city built for Nevada’s Burning Man festival is called Black Rock City.
Black Rock City is constructed each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, an event centered on art, participation, self-expression, and communal effort. The city is laid out on a large arc surrounding the festival’s central Man sculpture.
Although Burning Man takes place in a desert, Black Rock City functions like a temporary municipality, with themed camps, art installations, roads, services, and civic organizations. Participants build much of the infrastructure and remove it after the event under Burning Man’s “leave no trace” principle.
A common mix-up is confusing Black Rock City with Black Rock Desert. The desert is the physical location; Black Rock City is the temporary settlement created there. Burning Man itself is the event, not the name of the city.