Black Rock City, Nevada is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year, during Burning Man, a radical gathering experience.

At its maximum occupancy, the town has about 60,000 citizens and a post office, an emergency services crew, a volunteer police department, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants, and hundreds of art installations and participatory "theme camps".

Black Rock City is in the remote Black Rock Desert about 2-3 hours north of Reno, Nevada. Most travelers arrive by car, bus, truck, RV, or other motor conveyance.

The region is notable for its paleogeologic features, as an area of 19th-century Emigrant Trails to California, as a venue for rocketry, and as an alternative to the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah, for setting land speed records.