Burning Man organizers are seeking permission to increase the capacity for future festivals by more than 30,000 people.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management currently caps attendance at the annual event in the Black Rock Desert at 68,000. Burning Man officials are proposing the event’s new special use permit be expanded to allow at least 80,000 participants and eventually as many as 100,000.
The BLM is reviewing the criteria used to set the attendance cap and other guidelines so as to minimize environmental and other impacts. The agency intends to issue a rough draft of the new conditions in about a year.
