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📍 Fly Ranch is a 5.6 square mile ranch in Nevada, home to hundreds of plants, animals, and the Fly Geyser hot springs.
🎨 The ranch is a Burning Man rural center for interactive arts and community participation.
😍 People come year-round to gather, create, and innovate. It is an oasis of art and ecology that inspires awe and wonder.
📖 Please read the survival guide when you visit.
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The novel desert ecosystem exists because of the abundant water. The hot springs are home to a metazoan with the highest temperature tolerance of any metazoan and rare photosynthetic microbial mats. The waters are crucial for the eight beehives and the Fly Ranch pyrg (Pyrgulopsis bruesi), an endangered highly vulnerable snail found only in one pool at Fly Ranch.
Featured Projects
Fly Ranch is a do-ocracy. Anyone can propose, organize, and manage a project. Projects tend to focus on ecology, art, healing, transformation, regeneration, and education. Most projects create public benefit, contribute to a thriving ecosystem, and support a permanent home for Burning Man. Below are some of the installations, events, and programs at the ranch.
You can view a full portfolio here.
Fly Bees
A volunteer project spun off from the Ripple team to care for eight beehives.
Baba Yaga's Tea House
An immersive art experience overlooking the stunning high desert landscape.
Writer's Emerging
A retreat to connect with the land and participate in creative workshops.
PLPT Tule Harvest
Indigenous harvest of tule reed used to make traditional burial mats.
SEED Garden
Symbiotic Coevolution: A vision for a generative future by a LAGI finalist.
BWB Summit
A flagship annual gathering held at Fly Ranch with Burners Without Borders.
Burning Man Project CEO Marian Goodell wrote in the Nonprofit's 2019 Annual Report: “Informed by our stewardship of the land and waters at Fly Ranch and the global climate crisis, we created an environmental sustainability roadmap that sets ambitious goals around waste management, ecological impact, and carbon sequestration.” A documentary by the International Wood Culture Society shows how Burning Man's 2030 Sustainability Roadmap is coming to life on and off playa.
In 2019 we partnered with the Land Art Generator Initiative and launched LAGI at Fly Ranch, a design challenge focused on regenerative systems for food, power, water, shelter, and waste. We made a global invitation to artists, designers, engineers, and dreamers to propose artworks that inspire wonder and provide foundational infrastructue.