Off playa
RV rental for Burning Man.
A bike, an RV, or a box truck is picked up in town. Fee-based bike rental inside Black Rock City is closed. A delivered RV is allowed only from a provider on Burning Man's Outside Services list. The company has to know the Black Rock Desert is the destination before you pay.
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Bikes
Cruisers and e-bikes from Sparks, Reno, Nixon, and Gerlach. A theme camp can use Playa Bike Repair's own link, with a free trailer from 10 bikes.
The bike rental list02
RVs
El Monte, Road Bear, Cruise America, and a few campervan fleets publish a Burning Man fee. There is no dump station in the city. Gray water and black water leave with you, or with a pumping truck you flagged down.
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Trucks
U-Haul publishes a Burning Man page. Hengehold publishes a playa playbook. Say the destination anyway, and keep the cleaning number they give you.
The rig
Motorhome, campervan, or someone else's RV.
Motorhome
El Monte, Road Bear, and Cruise America publish a Burning Man rule for a Class A or Class C. You get a toilet, a shower, and tanks. Reno and Sparks are the short drive. San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas are the counters with a published down payment on the thl fleets.
Campervan
Travellers Autobarn, Escape, Indie Campers, and roadsurfer will take a declared trip. Escape's current vans have no plumbing and no bike rack, and off-road driving is outside their insurance. Salt Lake City is on Indie Campers' Burning Man page. Cruise America's higher deposit also covers Utah departures in that August window. Travellers Autobarn publishes the fleet on its own site.
Peer to peer
RVshare allows the week only on a listing the owner has marked Burning Man friendly. Outdoorsy, RVezy, and Turo do not. A friendly message from an owner does not rewrite the platform terms.
Dust and the bill
Tell them the desert is the destination.
Playa dust is fine and alkaline. It gets into vents, cabinets, and the generator. The companies that allow the trip publish a cleaning number because of that. The number on the card is the one that company had on its own page. Read the reservation before you pay. Two pages from the same company can disagree, and the contract wins.
El Monte's travel extras list a $1,500 cleaning fee prepaid at pickup. Their April 2026 guide calls that fee optional and says it covers the full clean. Plan on paying it. They also ask you to work on the interior at return. Scrubbing the paint off the outside is not the job they want. Road Bear has no prepaid cleaning fee. At drop-off they charge at least $500, and the bill can reach $3,000. Drop & Go is closed for these bookings.
A campervan fee is not a free pass to bring it back packed with dust. Travellers Autobarn's $1,000 supplementary fee still expects a clean return, and an undeclared trip is a $1,500 penalty that can void the insurance. Indie Campers publishes a €750 playa-dust fee and a €1,000 penalty if you skip the disclosure. Escape's current FAQ is a $500 cleaning fee with advance notice.
Before you leave the lot, fill the fresh tank and look for leaks. On playa there are no hookups, and gray water stays in the tank. Flag a pump-out truck or haul it out. Keep the door shut in a whiteout. Bag anything you want to stay clean. El Monte's guide says there is no fuel inside the city, and that Gerlach is the last services, about 10 miles from the entrance.
Can you take a rental RV/Dumping and pump-out/How to get the dust off afterward/Hose, sewer kit, and leveling blocks
The city's rule
A pass gets you to camp. Then the rig stays put.
Every motor vehicle driving into Black Rock City needs a vehicle pass in the windshield. The city's help page exempts motorcycles and towed trailers. The ticketing page lists the pass at $165 before taxes and fees, sold with tickets, and capped at one pass for every two tickets. The pass covers the drive in and the drive to camp. Park when you arrive. Bikes and feet do the week.
The event FAQ says an RV is fine, there are no hookups, and you do not discharge gray water or sewage. It also says an outside vendor does not deliver the rig. A company that offers to place one in camp still has to be on this year's Outside Services list. We are not affiliated with Burning Man Project. Their pages are the rule. Ours is the reading list.
RVs that publish a Burning Man rule.
Fees below are what each company had on its own page as of September 25, 2026, and again on October 13 where that page still publishes the fee. Read the reservation before you pay. Links open the company page. None of them carry a tracking code.
Motorhome
El Monte RV
El Monte calls the Reno counter its Burning Man location. They collect a $1,500 cleaning fee at pickup. Their pages sometimes call that fee mandatory and sometimes optional, so plan on paying it. Pickups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas take a $1,000 non-refundable down payment.
Bordertown Casino RV Resort, 19575 US-395 N, Reno, NV. Open seasonally for this event.
Open their pageMotorhome
Road Bear RV
Road Bear is the other thl fleet, listed alongside El Monte. Burning Man pickups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas take a $1,000 non-refundable down payment. There is no prepaid cleaning fee. At drop-off they charge at least $500, and the bill can reach $3,000. Drop & Go is closed for these bookings.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas pickups publish a Burning Man rule.
Open their pageMotorhome
Cruise America
Their 2026 client notes raise the security deposit from $500 to $1,000 for every departure from California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and Utah between August 26 and September 1. A third-party copy of the terms uses August 19 through 25, so confirm the window on your contract. Interior cleaning can run to $250 and a dump charge to $100. For a special event, cancelling within 45 days forfeits the down payment.
465 S. Rock Blvd, Sparks, NV
Open their pageCampervan
Travellers Autobarn
Allowed when you declare the trip. The Burning Man supplementary fee is $1,000 and non-refundable. An undeclared trip is a $1,500 penalty, and the insurance can be void.
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and San Francisco
Open their pageMinivan camper
Escape Campervans
Their FAQ says yes, with advance notice and a $500 cleaning fee. Off-road driving is prohibited. The vans have no plumbing.
Relaunched in 2026 by Avanti, with a new minivan fleet.
Open their pagePeer-to-peer
RVshare
Allowed owner by owner. Their guide tells owners to mark those listings, and it describes professional cleaning around $750 to $1,000 and deposits of at least $1,500. Many owners forbid the trip and can keep a deposit. Read the listing until it says the event is allowed.
Only on a listing the owner has marked Burning Man friendly.
Open their pageCampervan
Indie Campers
They publish a mandatory playa-dust fee of €750. Tell them before pickup. Skipping that disclosure is a €1,000 penalty, and the insurance can be void.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and Seattle
Open their pageCampervan
roadsurfer
Allowed. Park where you can drive back out. Recovery and extra cleaning stay on the renter. Their burner guide is the page to read before you book.
US stations include San Francisco and Las Vegas.
Open their pageLocal motorhome
NV RV Rentals
A Reno company with a flat Burning Man rate for up to 14 days. There is a non-refundable dust-cleaning fee, then an hourly charge if the rig needs more. The insurance they describe is liability-only on the way to the event and back. Gerlach delivery is still outside the city.
Reno. Delivery to Gerlach is on their FAQ.
Open their pageDelivered to camp
A placed RV has to be on the city's list.
Burning Man stopped delivered housing in 2020 and brought it back for 2025. It stays limited to Outside Services providers. A quote for "we'll drop it at your camp" still has to match that list for the year you are going.
Local fleets that offer delivery.
These companies publish Burning Man packages, including a price to place a rig in the city. Use the city delivery only after you find them on the authorized list.
Local, with a delivery offer
Tahoe RV Rentals
Published terms: a 50% non-refundable deposit and a $2,500 refundable deposit. Delivery inside Black Rock City counts only if they are on this year's Outside Services list.
Check the authorized provider list before you pay for a rig to be placed in camp.
They advertise playa delivery, setup, and retrieval.
Open their pageLocal packages
RV Pirates
Their 2026 Burning Man packages run $10,000 to $17,000 and include mileage, a generator, dust prep, and post-burn cleaning. They also list Black Rock City delivery at $5,000 and Reno delivery at $3,000.
The city-delivery price is usable only if RV Pirates is on the Outside Services list for that year.
Sun Valley and Los Angeles
Open their pageTrucks and trailers.
Truck or trailer
U-Haul
They publish a Burning Man page, with a logo-cover decal kit. A dirty return can mean a cleaning fee from $250 up to $2,500. They told SFGATE they rent more than 1,000 pieces of equipment for the event in a year.
A Burning Man page lists Reno, Sparks, and California counters.
Open their pageCargo van and trucks
Hengehold Trucks
2027 Burning Man reservations open June 2, 2027 at 8:00 AM. A cargo van is $99.95 a day plus $0.99 a mile. Cancellation fees apply after July 15. The minimum cleaning fee is $500. Refrigerated vans and 24-foot stake trucks stay off the playa.
Palo Alto
Open their pageBox truck
Budget Truck
No Burning Man policy is published. One state damage-waiver notice treats driving off paved roads as the renter's responsibility. Ask the branch, in writing, before the truck is headed for the desert.
Ask the branch on your reservation.
Open their pageThese terms forbid the trip.
Booking one of these for Black Rock City can void the contract, even when an owner sounds willing. The link is the terms page or the report of the policy, so you can read the ban yourself.
Outdoorsy
Terms last revised October 1, 2026 call it a breach to take a vehicle to a festival Outdoorsy has not authorized. Burning Man is named. Their insurance article says festival-ground damage, including playa dust, is not covered.
Outdoorsy termsRVezy
Their terms list Burning Man Festival, Nevada, under prohibited travel. The renter is held responsible for damage, cleaning, and recovery.
RVezy termsMoterra
Their terms prohibit taking a vehicle to Burning Man. Vehicles are GPS tracked, and the cleaning fee can reach $8,000.
Moterra termsFraserway
A Canadian fleet. Attending with their vehicles is forbidden, with a minimum penalty of $5,000.
Fraserway rental rulesPenske
Penske told SFGATE that off-road use is prohibited and that the policy covers Burning Man.
SFGATE reportTuro
Their prohibited-uses policy bars off-roading and unimproved roads. That covers the playa, and a violation can void the protection plan.
Turo prohibited usesLost Campers
Published summaries say the trip needs prior written permission, with a $2,000 fine. Their site did not load on September 25, 2026, so get the permission in writing before you pay.
Lost Campers termsGetaround shut down its US operation in February 2025. Jucy no longer runs US rentals. Neither is a way to get a vehicle to the event.
Pump-out and drinking water.
The link is the city's page or the order desk. We do not add a tracking code.
RV pump-out
United Site Services
The city says United Site Services handles RV and container pump-outs. There is no dump station, and dumping on the playa draws a citation. A camp with fewer than five RVs flags a truck and pays at the truck. Larger orders go to BurningManOrders@UnitedSiteServices.com or 800-499-9987. Their water tanks are labeled not for drinking. Hoses reach about 30 feet, so leave a path to the rig.
Flag a truck marked RV servicing, or contract ahead
Open their pagePotable fill
Gerlach General Improvement District
The closest potable fill to the city. The town sells it, and the money stays in Gerlach. Hours and the price per gallon are on the city's water page for that year. You fill the containers there.
330 Short Drive, Gerlach, NV
Open their pagePlaya delivery
Outside Services list
Delivered housing was brought back for 2025 and stays limited to Outside Services providers. A water truck on playa has to be on that list and carry a Nevada health certificate. Open camping does not get a scheduled delivery. The list changes, so read it before you wire anyone a deposit.
Placed camps, and only from the authorized list
Open their pageDrinking hose, sewer kit, and leveling blocks/How the rig sits for the week
RV rental
The fleets with a published rule.
These open the company page for a fleet that publishes a Burning Man rule. Your price does not change. We are not affiliated with Burning Man Project. How the links work.
Links open the company page. None of them carry a tracking code.
Renting an RV for Burning Man/Compare the companies/RV checklist
Questions
- Can I rent an RV for Burning Man?
- Yes, from fleets that publish a Burning Man rule and from peer-to-peer listings the owner has marked as allowed. Tell them the Black Rock Desert is the destination before you pay. Several companies forbid the trip outright.
- Is there a dump station in Black Rock City?
- No. There is no dump station, and dumping on the playa draws a citation. A camp flags a United Site Services pump-out truck or contracts ahead. Water from those trucks is not drinking water.
- Can an RV be delivered into the city?
- Only from a provider on Burning Man's Outside Services list for that year. A delivery price from a company that is not on the list is not a plan. The event FAQ still says you drive the rig in yourself.
- Motorhome or campervan for Burning Man?
- A motorhome has a toilet, a shower, and holding tanks, and the week is about those tanks. A campervan is easier to drive and often has no plumbing, so the toilet plan is still yours. Peer-to-peer listings are allowed only when that owner has said so.
- Can I drive the RV around Black Rock City?
- A vehicle pass gets the rig through the gate and to camp. It does not let you drive around the city. Park it. Bikes and feet do the rest. Motorcycles and towed trailers are the pass exceptions on the city's help page.