Burning Man attendees began a mass exodus Monday after roads reopened following a days-long closure due to mud, leading to hours-long waits to leave the remote Nevada desert site, though many stuck around as the festival held its climactic burning of a wooden effigy Monday night. The driving ban in Black Rock City—the temporary city set up during Burning Man—was lifted at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time Monday, organizers said, though they urged attendees to consider waiting until Tuesday to leave in order to ease congestion. Burning Man’s titular burning of...

After the rain, Burning Man comes to a fiery, muddy end A person cheers as the Man burns at Burning Man. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY Fireworks explode as part of the Man burn at Burning Man on Labor Day. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY Fireworks explode as part of the Man burn at Burning Man on Labor Day. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY Fireworks explode as part of the Man burn at Burning Man on Labor Day. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY Burning Man attendees are silhouetted by the embers of the Man burn on Labor Day....

In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger, a man walks through mud at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev., on Sept. 4, 2023. Doused by days of rain, thousands of people stuck on the muddy playa at the Burning Man festival began to trickle out of the remote area in northwest Nevada on Monday. Long lines of RVs, trucks, trailers and other vehicles could be seen in the afternoon as attendees slowly made their exit across the desert. Festival organizers delayed the “exodus” of attendees...

BLACK ROCK CITY, USA (Worthy News) – U.S. authorities have opened an investigation into a death at the annual Burning Man festival after extreme rainfall in the northern part of Nevada state stranded tens of thousands of revelers. “As this death is still under investigation, there is no further information available at this time,” added the local Pershing County Sheriff in published remarks. The announcement came after access to and from Black Rock City, the event’s site was closed “for the remainder of the event,” organizers said. Yet celebrities still...

The death of a man at the Burning Man festival in Nevada was not related to heavy flooding that forced thousands of attendees to shelter in place over the weekend, leaving them stranded in the desert, according to reports. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said on Saturday that the death happened "during this rain event" in northern Nevada, though no additional details were immediately released. Event organizers on Sunday, the Independent reported, said the death of the unidentified 40-year-old man was "unrelated to weather." DEATH AT BURNING MAN FESTIVAL INVESTIGATED...

A mass exodus of tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees was underway Monday after a rare late-summer storm flooded the Black Rock Desert area north of Reno, turning the dried lakebed playa into a muddy, soggy mess. One died at the festival over the weekend. The Pershing County Sheriff's Office confirmed it is investigating the death and said the family has been notified both of the death and the active probe. A spokesperson for the sheriff's office told CBS News on Sunday that the death occurred during the extreme...

Thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in Nevada found themselves stranded in the desert after a weekend of heavy rain turned the ground to mud. Organizer said one event attendee died at the festival Saturday, though they don’t believe that person’s cause of death was weather-related, according to the Guardian. Pershing County Sheriff’s Office are investigating. Event organizers haven’t returned a Daily News request for comment. At least 70,000 participants were stuck in Black Rock Desert about 100 miles north of Reno, Nev. when rough weather hit. Organizers...

The Burning Man Project announced that improving weather would allow for an exodus to begin on Monday morning after rain and mud had left the roads impassable and stranded an estimated 70,000 people over the weekend. The organization said that it would have additional details for exiting the playa by 9 a.m. local time and that Monday would “bring clear skies, and a welcome chance to dry out.” The National Weather Service said Sunday that dry and warm conditions would help the area improve. “There was no cause for panic....

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada − The return of clear skies and a favorable forecast Monday will make conditions easier today for thousands to leave Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert, a day after rain-soaked roads created a muddy mess for more than 70,000 attendees. The forecast called for no rain and chilly temperatures that will warm to the mid-70s over the remote region north of Reno, Nevada, conditions that could dry out the muddy road leading into and out of the remote desert outpost. With a slight chance...