Regional burns & playas in the United States

A volunteer-run, free, all-ages fire performance and drum gathering that has lit up Chicago parks and beaches on summer evenings for more than twenty years.…

Catoosa Event Center is a 165-acre former golf course on the Cumberland Plateau that hosts multi-stage festivals, including the To The Moon regional burn. The…

Carolina Burners links the burner communities of the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill) and coastal North Carolina. Members share local gatherings and…

A wooded campground near Ottawa, about an hour and a half from Chicago, that hosts B.U.R.N. Burn, the Chicago community's regional campout. It has showers and…

Camp La Llanada's sleepaway grounds at Lake Wales host Florida Afterburn each November. The rest of the year the property runs as a youth summer camp.

Burnt Oranges is Central Florida's original burn community and the nonprofit behind Florida Afterburn, the state's official regional. It funds theme camps and…

The nonprofit behind Black Rock City and the global Regional Network, headquartered in San Francisco's Mission District. It also runs Fly Ranch, the art and…

Burning Man Project's Northern Nevada office in downtown Reno, the gateway city most burners pass through on the way to the playa.

The organization's outpost in tiny Gerlach, the last town before the Black Rock Desert and a year-round base for playa and Fly Ranch operations.

Burning Man NYC is the hub for New York City burners, with mailing lists, art grants and civic projects. It also hosts the weekly Wednesday burner happy hour,…

Central Texas's long-running regional burn community, run by volunteers and organized through Austin Artistic Reconstruction. Beyond the spring event on…

The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of Burners Without Borders, bringing local burners together for service projects, socials and community gatherings all year. They…

One of the earliest and longest-running Burners Without Borders chapters. Its volunteers run the Detroit Homeless Backpack Project, a seasonal free store and…

Chicago's Burners Without Borders chapter, running a community free store, animal rescue help and arts education for newcomer students. It also offers civic…

Boston Burners is the Boston area's burner community, with a discussion list, a photo gallery and close ties to New England's regional burns. It is the local…

Chicagoland's volunteer-run burner nonprofit. It runs B.U.R.N. Burn, the city's decompression, newbie nights and meet-and-greets, and funds community art…

A small Texas burn held each spring near Hempstead, northwest of Houston. It is a welcoming, participant-built weekend in the regional burn tradition.

The temporary city that rises on the Black Rock Desert playa north of Gerlach each late summer for Burning Man. Participants build it together, celebrate for…

Baltimore's burner community hosts picnics in the park, parties, meet-and-greets and town halls through the year. Local camps and crews work closely with…

Arizona's official regional nonprofit, producing Saguaro Man, IGNiGHT in downtown Phoenix, Holidaze and newbie orientations, with its own Burners Without…

Eighty acres of community-owned land near Willcox in Cochise County, bought by AZ Burners as a permanent home for Saguaro Man and other events.

Colorado's regional Burning Man event and a Denver-based 501(c)(3), running a June mountain campout since 2005 plus year-round fundraisers.

A Brewery District bar on Reno's East 4th Street and one of the hosts of the annual Reno Decompression block party and its free after-parties.