A dome light glowing in an open tailgate at dusk while someone lifts water jugs and a headlamp walks off into the flat.

Burning Man 2026. What do you need help with?

Gate opens Sunday 30 August. The Man burns Saturday 5 September.

Four questions

Car, bike, camp, crew

Pick the thing that is worrying you most and start there.

The carDo you need help packing your car?The bar length you own against the bar length the load needs.Pack the car The bikeDo you need help getting your bike lit up?A build you can finish at the kitchen table and run once before you leave.Light the bike The campDo you need help with shade, water, and power?Shade that survives the wind, water counted off the roster.Size the camp The crewDo you need help getting the camp organized?Who claimed what, and what nobody has picked up.Organize the crew

The clock

What is already too late

Every way of getting a thing carries a lead time. Against today, some of them no longer fit.

Closed

Buy new · 10 daysBorrow · 14 daysBuy used · 21 daysRent · 45 daysBuild · 49 days

Every buying window has closed. What you own is what you bring.

Lead times are Manifest’s defaults for each way of getting a thing. Counted from 2026-08-24 in Los Angeles.

The full clock

Burn week

The shape of the week

Four dates decide when you drive out and when you are packing up in the dark.

Beat	Day	Date
Gate opens	Sunday	30 August
The Man burns	Saturday	5 September
The Temple burns	Sunday	6 September
Exodus	Monday	7 September

The 2026 theme is Axis Mundi.

An orange column of fire rising behind the silhouette of a wheel structure on the open playa at night. — The Man goes up on the Saturday. The Temple goes the night after, and it is quiet.

The index

Every tool, one place

Grouped by the part of the trip it belongs to, with the one thing each of them decides.

Black Rock City from the air, the street arc and the radial avenues laid out around the open playa. — The city is a map before it is anything else.

Gear

MarketplaceBuy, rent, trade, or ask for a thing nobody is selling yet.List an itemYour listing, your photos, sale or rent or trade or wanted.RentalsWeekend-scale gear. The listings are a worked example, labeled as one.VendorsMaker storefronts, products, and which festivals they list.ServicesSetup, transport, repair, creative. Book a person.StylistYour sizes, colors, budget, and what you will not wear. Kept in this browser.

The car

RoofKitHatch, garage, load, bar length on this vehicle.RetrofitFour photos and a tape before a part name.

The camp

CampKitShelter, heat, watts, water per person-day.CampsThe directory, plus a private board for the camp you are in.Create campName, place, year. You become lead.

Your plan

ManifestWhat you own, measured, against what the trip needs. Every gap comes with how long it takes to get.My PlanA shopping and notes list kept in this browser. Nothing is reserved and nobody is told.FieldThe trip plan as an offline bundle, with the tools still running inside it.Field packetThe same plan printed on paper, for the week there is no signal at all.

Around the site

Bike lightsFrame, both wheels, and a whip, built and tested before you leave.CommunityChannels, showcase, bookmarks.The 2026 clockEvery way of getting a thing, open or already out of days.

First burn

First burn? Start here

Dust arrives on its own schedule and gets into everything you own. The official guidance is written by the people who run the city, so start there.

Survival GuideRead it once before you buy anything. It is the official one.WaterThe Survival Guide puts the floor at 5.7 liters per person per day, and a floor is not a target. The camp page counts it off a roster.The bikeAn unlit bike is invisible to an art car that is already moving.Too lateWhich ways of getting a thing have already run out of days.

People in dust masks and goggles walking through a daytime whiteout on the playa. — A normal afternoon, not a bad one.

Three small figures with bikes far out on the open playa at pastel dusk, the temple on the horizon.

See you in the dust.

Stokd is the gear and camp platform behind burneroutpost.org: a marketplace for buying, renting, and trading gear, tools for the car, the camp, and the crew, and a place to find a camp.

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