I've vaguely heard of the Black Rock Desert before, because I've thought of deserts to visit. I never chose that one, though. Doing another desert trip this year, and looking at that one again. Can you sway me in that direction?
The Black Rock Desert is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin and has a dry lakebed. It is also where burning man is held.
Right, I thought Burning Man was held there! I knew I was right. So, could you tell me more about Burning Man? What's so interesting about it?
Burning Man
Burning Man is an event held annually in the western United States at Black Rock City, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately north-northeast of Reno. The late summer event is an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: radical inclusion, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy, and leave no trace. The event takes its name from its culmination, the
Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region "(in the Great Basin shrub steppe eco-region)", of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than of land and contains more than of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.