On your way back to Gerlach and the Black Rock Desert, stop at Fly Ranch to witness the Fly Geyser, a series of nearly 6-foot-tall mineral formations caused by attempted well-drilling that ...

Sept. 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. (Julie Jammot/AFP via Getty Images ...

But a meticulous restoration of the Black Rock Desert is required under the federal permits that allow a 70,000-person pop-up city on remote public lands in northwestern Nevada every summer.