For only a week out of each year, Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man, is the fourth largest city in the state of Nevada. While the festival participants’ camps are only temporary, a lot of work goes into creating a comfortable, beautiful tiny shelter. These tiny “houses” have to be able to withstand up to 80 mile an hour winds, have to protect their inhabitants from the desert heat and cold, and the notorious dust storms of the Black Rock Desert. It also helps if they are colorful and attract attention. It makes them easier to find in the mass creativity that is Black Rock City.
While at Burning Man, you “live” in the city. When someone asks you where you live, you say something like, “On the corner of 7:00 and Chaos, right next to the giant spaceship.” (referring to the horizontal “C” street and vertical number street of the Black Rock City map). This year’s city was 9,460 feet in diameter and included 44 miles of streets. It helps to know exactly where your tiny house is located.
To the un-Burned eye, Black Rock City looks a little beat up and run down, but when you are in one of the most inhospitable places on earth, any little bit of comfort is appreciated. The inhabitants of Black Rock City are an amazing group of people with extremely creative ideas and skills who create little laps of luxury in the desert.
These are some of my favorite tiny houses of Black Rock City:
And my all-time favorite…
It looks like you could find almost any type of tiny house there at the festival. Nice work on the photos.
Some of those are amazing! My boss goes to burning man every year and has told me about some of those tiny homes. I’ve been thinking about going just to get more ideas.
That ‘neverwas haul’ is fantastic. I’d love to see the interior photos of that crazy contraption!
Seth. You can find lots of information, video and photos of the Neverwas Haul on the web and the Neverwas Times: http://neverwashaul.com
It is actually hard to photograph inside since it can be a bit tight when there are people roaming around inside, as it was at this year’s Burning Man. We met the guy who built it, a funny Irishman who proudly waves the Erin Go Braugh flag.
You just have to see it for yourself. It is fantastic!
That was the coolest post I’ve seen in a while. I want to go there!! I had never really seen the domes before.
Hey Alex – glad you liked it, thanks Christina for such great coverage and photos. Wish we could always have this cool of post, we do the best we can 🙂
I love the creativity that goes into making shelter for Burning Man and the environment of the playa!
For us, pulling our actual full time home onto the playa is doubly amazing. When you wake up in the afternoon and realize you really are home at Black Rock City – it takes the whole ‘Welcome Home’ greeting to another level. Thank you for including us in your Tiny Home round up 🙂
Hope you burn was amazing!
– Cherie
Hi Cherie!
It was so nice to meet you and Chris. Thank you for the little stickers. This year was so wonderful…great people, great weather, and an overall fantastic burn.
The Neverwas Haul, very “Chitty-Chitty-Bangish” therefore very very very COOL! I love it…Does it have wings?
Christina I didn’t know you were going this year we could’ve met up there!
Thanks for the great pics. It’s always so amazing to me the amount of work people put into creating beauty at Burning Man.
Maybe I’ll catch you next year!
What an fascinating post! Some of the most interesting little “pads” I’ve seen in awhile. I’d love to learn more about this gathering so maybe I could attend in the future and see these little jewels in person. Does this group have a website?
Hi Hillary. Yes, I did not know you were going until Kent told me. We should definitely meet up next year. I would love to see your little trailer. 🙂
Randy, the website is http://www.burningman.com. As for the thousands of different groups that go each year, you can usually find a list of theme camps on the Burning Man website and then do a search for their websites. For example, VW Bus Camp: http://www.vwbuscamp.com
Each year is different. You never know what you will see.
I have never seen anything like this. I’ve heard of Burning Man before, but not really what it was nor pictures of the area. Some very creative dwellings set up around there. Cool to see so many variations of tiny structures in one place.