Burning Man is changing it's name next year to 'Geriatric Man'...

What is not to love about a headline that starts with the phrase 'wrinkled sausage fest'? Burning Man - the nine-day celebration of art, music, and anarchist hijinks in the Nevada desert - has been steadily shrinking since its 2019 peak, but the share of people in their 40s and 50s is on the rise, data shows.

The number of free-loving revelers flocking to “the playa” - where each year a city is built on bare sand and razed after a week of drug-fueled, clothing-optional partying - dipped to about 70,000 last year after peaking close to 80,000, according to last year’s census of Black Rock City, the ad hoc municipality that hosts the burn.

But the oldies are proving they have more stamina than the kids. In 2014, burners under 30 made up 30% of the playa. That number plunged by more than half to 14% by 2025.

Adrielle Knight, 41, attended in 2023, when a rainstorm flooded camps and turned the exit route into an impassable muddy mess. She recalled one young influencer saying, “This is not like Coachella at all!”

“It’s really out of one’s comfort zone, even if you have a comfy camp. And maybe Millennials and Gen X-ers have a higher tolerance for discomfort?” Knight told The Post.

Men have also historically outnumbered women, and that trend still holds strong, with males making up 56% of burners last year.

 

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