Black Rock Compass is a free Burning Man companion
app for Black Rock City. Built by a Burner, for Burners.

Browse thousands of events by day and vibe; music,
workshops, parties, fire, food, art, and more. Find
your crew with a real-time compass needle that points
directly at your friends. Explore the BRC map with
layers for camps, art installations, and events.

Features include a full event schedule, real-time
friend finder compass, interactive BRC map, hop crawl
planner for themed routes, Surrender mode for
spontaneous discovery, direct messaging, Bluetooth
offline mode, and camp location sharing. Free and
independent. Not affiliated with Burning Man Project.

Black Rock City Life – Event Visualizer

Last night I was thinking about how placement tries to place camps with the goal of creating balanced neighborhoods where there’s always something going on. I do remember as I hiked around black rock city having a sense that certain neighborhoods and time periods were much more active than others. Sometimes my whole block was fully dead; other times I walked down certain blocks and it seemed like every camp was fully lit up with activity.

I realized that with the data in the API it should be super easy just to make a visualizer that shows all scheduled events on a map with a slider that lets you set the time and see the events happening at that time, lit up. So I made one!

Features

• Interactive Map: View the Black Rock City 2025 map with event locations
• Zoom & Pan: Use mouse wheel to zoom in/out, click and drag to pan around the map, double-click to reset view
• Time Slider: Scrub through the entire week of Burning Man (August 24 – September 1, 2025)
• Event Visualization: See events as emoji markers on the map based on their type:
  • 🎵 Pink: Music/Party
  • 🎓 Cyan: Class/Workshop
  • 🍕 Yellow: Food
  • 🍹 Green: Beverages
  • 🎨 Orange: Arts & Crafts
  • 🔞 Red: Mature Audiences
  • ✨ White: Other
• Playback Controls: Play/pause the timeline, adjust speed (1x, 2x, 5x, 10x), default speed is 10x
• Event Details: Hover over any event marker to see details in the status bar at the bottom
• Day/Night Cycle: Visual darkening of the map during nighttime hours (with sunrise/sunset transitions)
• Long Event Filter: Toggle to hide/show events that are 6+ hours long
• Live Event Count: See how many events are happening at any given time
• Pacific Time Display: All times shown in Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Interactive Map Viewer for Burning Man 2025 Theme Camps

Works on desktop and mobile.

(In 1086, William the Conqueror sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. This became the Domesday book, a great survey of the land in most of England and Wales. I chose this name of the project because Burning Man’s official data sets and APIs traditionally store approximate “nearest corner” locations for theme camps but not their actual locations.)

Features

Explore the Map

• Pan by dragging (mouse or touch)
• Zoom with mouse wheel, trackpad pinch, or two-finger pinch on mobile
• Click Zoom to Fit to reset view (desktop only)

Discover Camps

• Type the name or part of the name of any camp to search
• Desktop: Hover to see camp info, click for sidebar, double-click for full details
• Mobile: Tap any camp for full details
  • Photos and descriptions
  • Contact information and website
  • Location and landmark details
  • Historical attendance data (2015-2024)

Historical Data

• View which years each camp has attended Burning Man
• Hover (desktop) or tap (mobile) any historical year to see that year’s location, description, and website
• Click historical URLs to view archived snapshots via the Wayback Machine

I made a Burning Man lockscreen generator, because phones—like some Burners—tend to wander off and “find themselves.” Now, if your phone decides to take its own spiritual journey across the playa, at least it’ll be rocking a custom lockscreen with your camp info and contact deets. Think of it as a stylish “lost and found” billboard… but hotter (and dustier). Pick a trippy background, slap on your details, and boom—you’ve just made your phone 73% more likely to find its way home. 🔥 📱 💨

App for Garmin watches. Shows location on playa, current speed, and direction and distance to:
– The man
– Your camp
– The nearest public Porto’s

Monkey King & Friends — Where Mythology Becomes a Social Universe MonkeyKingAndFriends.com is not a typical social platform. Here, there are no personal avatars, no self-centered profiles — only the spirit of the 12 Monkey King Tribes. Each tribe represents a unique attribute of Sun Wukong: strength, wisdom, rebellion, mischief, freedom, chaos, and more. By joining, you choose not “yourself,” but the Wukong within you.

🔮 Mystery First: Without personal photos, the platform preserves the mystique of the Monkey King world.
🌀 Tribal Posting: Every post, artwork, or message is shared as part of your Tribe, never as an individual.
🎨 Creative Playground: Express art, music, writing, and imagination inside your Tribe and across the Monkey King universe.
🌍 Global Connection: From our Monkey King Theme Camp at Burning Man to digital spaces, this is a worldwide network of dreamers and creators.

MonkeyKingAndFriends.com is where myth, art, and community merge into a living metaverse. Your voice doesn’t just speak — it becomes part of the legend. Pick your Wukong. Post to your Tribe. Join the Wukong Multiverse

Modern easy-to-use app for scheduling events, tracking DJs, artists, performers, collaborators and playa art.

The ¡AXOLOTL! books 50+ artists each year, and managing all that with spreadsheets was wild. This should help anyone in a similar situation save tons of time!

Sign up and add your camp! Get in touch if you want to import existing plans.

Features:

• 🎁 Gift of Time – Noncommercial app for playa planners and makers
• 📅 Event Scheduling – 24-hour calendar with artists, camps, and art integration
• 🖨️ Printable Schedules – Generate offline-ready schedules and lineup cards
• 📊 Unified Dashboard – Centralized view of activities, contacts, and locations
• 🎭 Artist Management – Track DJs, musicians, contacts, and booking status
• 🎨 Art Integration – Synced playa art data with contact info for event planning
• 🔒 Private & Secure – Isolated camp databases with team role management
• 🔥 API Integration – Official art installation and camp data access
• 📈 Multi-Year Planning – Current planning with historical event reference

BRC Navi runs on a Garmin GPS watch (Fenix, Venu, and others) and can help you find your way in Black Rock City. The app includes:

– Your current location, presented as the familiar clock and distance format on the playa, and with street letters within the city itself.

– A simple map of nearby intersections and major landmarks

– An "artificial horizon" of the surrounding mountains, for orientation at night or in whiteouts

– Blue dots indicating nearby portable toilets

– Current speed

Tested on the Fenix, Venu, and Forerunner series of Garmin watches. If your model isn't listed, please let us know, we will send you a version for testing.

Downloadable from the Garmin app store (free):
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/f2fbd1de-7d17-4c2b-a54d-98e990a21dda

Meet Dusty! The sassy AI guide who’s braved 25 years of Burning Man, here to help you find your way through this eccentric dust bowl without losing your mind—or your shoes. Don’t expect warm hugs, but do expect salty wisdom in the quest for art cars and existential revelations!

It’s a custom GPT trained on the Survival Guide, new burners guide and a couple of other sources to immediately and accurately answer questions for new burners, it provides references for external sources

Includes a quiz to help test how it’s going – hit the ‘Am I burnier than thou’ button