This is NOT a list of officially accepted or placed Theme Camps. It’s a preview of what you’ll find when you get to Black Rock City.
This is the list of Theme Camps who submitted a Placed Camp Questionnaire requesting placement in Black Rock City’s reserved sections for this year and want to be listed publicly.
Placement is announced in Early July. These are the camps Placement is reviewing. To find out what camps did receive placement look through the Playa Info Directory in Center Camp.
To find camps not included on the BRC Map or to find camps that chose not to be listed, you’ll just have to get lucky.
2017 Camps
Pacific Renegades
We celebrate the absurdity of our existence, and provide a inclusive, exploratory, and safe space for people from all walks of life. Come here to meet people from all over the pacific, and with all of our exciting activities and gadgets, you are sure to find your inner renegade here.
Pam's Parlor
Welcome one and all to Pam’s Parlor, where you can find shade and get shiny with our custom flash tattoos designed specifically for this year’s Burn, or enjoy other scheduled events such as yoga, meditation, body painting, and more! Please feel free to climb up onto the back of Pam the Albino Mastodon to get a great view of the neighborhood at any time of day or night–we look forward to seeing you there!
Pancake Playhouse
Pancake Playhouse: Serving fresh pancakes and playing soft rock Monday through Friday, nine-ish to noonish.
Pandora's Lounge & Fix-it Shoppe
Our camp keeps our fellow Burners biking: in our repair shop, we offer tools, parts, and education in bike repair. Actually we’ll help you repair just about anything, but bikes are our specialty. We also love to mix drinks and host visitors in our adjacent lounge. We have a strong eco focus; we have been running on solar power for years, and we recycle and reuse as much as possible.
Paper Cranes
Come find your refuge from the elements of the playa – Paper Cranes offer replenishment in the form of pickle backs, salves, and tasty treats if you’re lucky. Make a paper crane with your best wishes and we’ll deliver it safely to temple before she burns.
Paradise Motel
Celebrating our 10th year on the playa, come experience the American Dream that is Paradise Motel, the most garish of roadside motels, yet the best of the “no-tel” genre; located in the heart of the Gayborhood and established in 2008 with a diverse group of folks hailing from our Default World locales of SF and LA. We welcome weary wanderers to stop in for a snow cone and enjoy some progressive beats while you lounge in the shade by the “pool”, visit our Concierge Desk to discover the local attractions and to sign up for guided tours or stop by our arts and crafts table every afternoon; awaken your spirit with sunrise Vinyasa Yoga every morning; come to our Tuesday Sunset Party and enjoy our evening bonfire featuring “Cocoa and Cabernet Cabaret”.
Parched Albatross Hookah & Bar
The Parched Albatross Lounge & Bar is a place where the community can come and relax, enjoy the shade and learn from one another and sign the ‘Ritual of Kindness Wall’. Serving Happy Hour Drinks from 3:30pm to 7:00 pm daily.
Parks and Wrecked!
Come and discover how amazing friends without benefits can be! Cupcakes, tea, booze n ballpits < 3
Parliament Art Crew
When owls gather, the group is called a “parliament” as they have long been considered to be of a wise disposition. We are the caretakers of MÚCARO (2017 Black Rock City Art Honoraria), the magnificent giant owl that surveys the playa with a 360º view…< slow blink>…don’t miss when it burns.
Partner Dance Adventures
Discover what it’s like to hold a dance partner in your arms and move to the music. Tango. Blues Dance. Join us in re-popularizing partner dance in America.
Party Naked Tiki Bar
Cold alcohol Tiki Punch is served, for those age 21 and over (ID required), starting at 11:00am daily. Enjoy the sounds of classic rock in a cool, relaxing clothing optional environment. Stop in and have a seat where you are bound to meet someone new. You never have to get naked to enjoy but if you do, you may get “leid”. Come party with us for our 9th year & please bring your own cup to be LNT friendly.
Pathogen Trackers
Pathogen Trackers camp is excited to return to the playa and provide the gifts of food and drink to those in need. Please visit www.PathogenTrackers.com to learn more.
Patsy's Hangout
Patsy’s Hangout is a fabulous lounge in the gayborhood to connect with old friends and make new ones while enjoying a refreshing Playa Bolli cocktail. Enjoy high-energy tunes, good company and a comfortable space. Join us at the bar, dance, chill or just hang out. Participate in our featured events and be sure to show off your best playa couture.
Peace Camp Community Pantry
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Peace of Sit
Heart Beats is a small playa family offering a cuddle dome with ambient and downtempo tunes aimed at opening the heart, mind, and soul. We’re offering a safe space to relax and get real with nightly music, daytime activities, and 24 hour good vibes. Lift your spirits, lift your neighbor’s spirits, elevate the collective, and chill.
Pele's Fire
Pele’s Fire: Celebrating the 5 elements of Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, and Aether by providing shady place to rest, musical performances, flow and fire workshops, a spiritual grounding zone, and a double rainbow of interactive lights art exhibit.
Penguin Place
Home of the Accountants meet and greet.
Penny Smashing Point
Dear Burners! Bring you penny and we will smash it for you or take one we have for you.
People of Color Camp
People of Color is a gathering space of the Diaspora. We welcome those blessed with melanin, recent immigrants and ‘invisible” people.
People's Art Congress
People’s Art Congress welcomes Burners to 3 exciting Interactive Art Projects: Come paint our mobile structure and chill out under the Illuminated Garden Above and The Wave. Open day and night, after dark viewing is enhanced by UV lighting, accentuating the 3 ring circus effect.
Pepperland
If you’re an accomplished or aspiring artist, cartoonist, singer, comic, improv maven, writer, or game enthusiast, on-stage model, dancer, or dramatic reader, Pepperland has much for you plus some radical rituals on-Playa. Want a massage or a snack?Our campers can serve you, plus with Laughter Yoga and Longevity Stick exercises to get your Xi flowing like the Playa wind blows. It’s our 10th year at BRC, the spirit of the Fab Four still inspires us. 3-D art is yours; we’ve got the glasses for it, and the views to go with ’em. Our week includes 200-plus hours of interactive, inventive entertainment. Need a home at home? We are it.
Perihelion
At Perihelion, you will reach the point in your journey closest to the sun. Enjoy a bright morning at our Intergalactic Pancake Massacres, and find yourself drawn into the orbit of the Star Bar for a stellar frozen cocktail!
Petersons Pink Pagoda
Lost on Rods Road – Come see us!
Phantasmagoria Camp
Electric Oasis smoothies and cocktail bar.
Lost paradise in middle of desert
Phasmantis
Phantasmatis is a camp celebrating the uncanny in technology, the fascinating autonomy that mechanisms seem to take on,and their habit of playfully subverting users’ intentions. Our camp features DIY, hacked devices that come alive in the hands of participants, and a interactive themed environment that gives Burners a glimpse of the fun machines would create if left to their own devices. Night time Rainbow “Laser” Tag engages humans and machines in a game of light. Players pursue each other with laser guns in a maze hung with prisms that cast rainbows on the fabric walls. Burners will emerge exhilarated from this excursion into the colorful dream world of machines while in the midst of amazing music!
Pickle Joint
Pickles and pickle martinis. Our noble studs and naughty wenches are here to serve you. Do drop in.
Pickle UnVillage
Come join the Pickle Alliance. We’ll teach you how to Dill with It.
PickleBack Mountain
Come ride the Bucking Pickle at PickleBack Mountain!
Try our homemade pickled chasers, said to be life-affirming!
Picklebackers
We are The Picklebackers, your one-stop shop for all things pickle. Be sure to attend our notorious Get Pickled with the Picklebackers Party Tuesday and Thursday 11am – 1pm!
Pickled Beats
When you think “pickles and techno”, think “Toneage”.
Pig Nest
Pig Nest. Comfort for the pig in each of us.
Pigmalions
Don’t be a Boar by yourself, come play with the Pigs! We’ve been hosting our famous daytime party on the Playa since 2001. Our fabulous bartenders hog-craft each and every Bloody Mary we make with over 10 different ingredients. Sizzling strips of pork are hoof-served to the squealing swine wallowing on our shaded sofas. All vegetarians are welcomed….to be converted. It’ll be sooieet!
Pile Palace
Here at the Pile Palace, we provide an unbelievably lavish, Moroccan-themed environment for Burners to pile hard. This is the ultimate Pile habitat. Whether you choose dancing your heart out to our ridiculously sexy house and techno music, lounging back in one of our pillow pits with a craft cocktail in hand, or taking a picture with friends upon our royal thrones, we want you and everything about you in a state of complete relaxation. Just remember to party til you Pile, and Pile til you party!
Pink Fuzzy Monkey
Get twisted at Camp Pink Fuzzy Monkey with the most fun themed twister board on the Playa, lounge dj sessions, light saber battles, and our crazy fun monkey parties. If you really wanna get charged up, plug in to our Banana Bunch Fruit Salad phone charging stations and tune in, turn off, drop out, drop in, switch off, switch on, and explode.
Pink Heart
Let the legendary Pink Lounge be home to your daily Recalibration Ritual for body, mind, and spirit.
Enjoy the sacrament of chilled cucumber water or vegan ice cream. Share your experiences (and yourself) on our pink fur couches while gazing upon the open Playa.
Pink Lagoon
The Pink Lagoon Flamingos are having an open nest. Slide into a giant nest, dodge a dust storm, talk life, bullshit, hookah, or dance session, all at the right alignments of the sun and moon on the playa (M-F afternoon, after dinner, before going deep).
Pink Lightning
Pink Lightning is a camp for runners and those who love them! We are the home of the Burning Man Ultramarathon, Black Rock City Beer Mile, 5k, Naked Mile, alleycat bike race, yoga classes, kids’ running races, alien cat art and other rad art, hammocks to chill, and sweaty hugs to give out. We love all things pink and lightning bolt, and especially love Pink Lightning Bolts.
Pink Mammoth
Pink Mammoth is a house music and creative arts collective based in San Francisco. We create an environment of love and compassion, selflessness and support, health and vitality, that encourages everyone to shine and thrive.
Pixelstad
International hub of Art, Music, Performance, Yoga, and the famous Burning Man Bingo.
Plaisance
Plaisance: This group is for the Plaisance Tribe and Faux French burners. Plaisance is a community of seekers, healers, creatives, doers and volunteers. Who embrace and inspire one another and Burning Man’s 10 principles.
Planet Palm Tree
Palm Tree Country Club is back to bring class to the playa with a range of activities for the hoightiest and toightiest of club members, including wine and cheese pairings, mini golf, and BYO bike polo. Come decorate your balls and sample wines from our classy country club staff.
Planetarium Aquarium!
Join Planetarium Aquarium as we once again celebrate Suzanne the Swan and her magical band of misfits in our amazing one-of-a-kind SWAMP!
Planned Playahood
We are Planned Playahood! We offer pregnancy testing, fornication counseling, bicycle repair, LED Art and other “second aid” services to UN-FUCK YOUR BURN. Let’s face it, sometimes your Burn gets fucked and we are here to un-fuck it for you.
Playa Biker Bear / Spin Cycle
“Playa Bike Repair” is both a service and a theme camp. ON-Playa: We run a “Bike Lounge,” with a bar, music, shade, and tools. Mechanics drop in. Friendly, nurturing, and supportive, they will gladly help you fix your bike! Last year, we helped over 4000 people fix their bikes! PRE-Playa, we offer bike rentals and transport; your support funds Playa Bike Repair. Volunteers, mechanics, and campmates wanted.
Playa Book of Records
Playa Book of Records is Black Rock City’s foremost authority on collecting, confirming and accrediting records set and broken on the playa. Record setting is both an individual/group accomplishment and an audience participatory event- all are welcome to visit and make playa history!
Playa Choir
Connect with the Something Other often overlooked at Burning Man. Your Playa Choir welcomes all Burners to come and participate in a fun 4-part harmony of classic sacred and secular songs. Rehearsals are Wednesday through Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To listen, please join us for the Sunday Sunrise Performance at the Temple, or the Full Choir non-denominational, non-religious but entirely welcoming, spiritual and moving “service” at 11:00 a.m. in our Dome. Singers of all skill levels, and persuasions are welcome 🙂 Also looking for Musicians! Contact madis_service@yahoo.com for more information or swing by our camp on the playa!
Playa Circuit Boogie
Here at Playa Circuit Boogie we use circuits and science to spark ideas and bring strangers together, all while jamming out to groovy tunes. Come learn the basics of soldering and circuit building; ride away with your very own light-up pendant and the skills to make an even better one next year.
Playa Court
Playa Court is back in session! Come argue, laugh, judge and imbibe with us. Bring your baggage with you! Playa Court adult lemonade for all 21 and over burners in attendance. Court will be in session from about 12pm-4pm M-F!!
Playa Glass
Visit Playa Glass where we teach you how to harness your arch nemeses (playa dust and the sun) and turn them into lovely one-of- a-kind beads of glass, and then provide everything you need to set them in pendants to remember your Burn by. M, W, F: 10-12 (weather permitting) 7:15 & D Hometowns: LA, NY, Boston, London & Berlin
Playa Jack Rabbits Dusty Hole Bar
Gypsy Kitties Anubis Afterlife Lounge. Come try our Scale of Truth, experience Entombment, Afterlife and enjoy some juicy grog.
Playa Jazz Cafe
A Jazz Club and cafe that host nightly jazz jam sessions and daily Jazz workshops while serving coffee and specialty drinks.
Playa Name Pawn Shop
Come visit the NT, trade gifts with our roo Jack and sample the
local delicacy known as vegemite toast. We’re a friendly bunch of Australians who love serving Aussie tucker with a side of banter.
Playa Pete's Plaza
Playa Pete’s Plaza is the home port for the Artship PV Monaco. The PV stands for Playa Vessel and she makes Playa Pete’s Plaza her home.
PlayAlchemist
EXPERIENCE RADICAL METAMORPHOSIS ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SEVEN STAGES OF ALCHEMY, IN SYNERGY WITH THE SEVEN DAYS OF BURNING MAN.
Playasophy
Welcome to Playasophy, a space to rest and reflect in the excitement of the carnival. Come in the mornings for coffee to start off your day, and in the afternoons sit around a hookah, enjoy a beverage and share stories and experiences with both our members and other travelers! In the evenings, enjoy the splendor of the Wonderdome, a fully controllable immersive light display while resting in the Land of Soft. We hope to see you soon!
Playasos!
Welcome to ¡Playasos!, a light-hearted and inclusive community with a love for play, spontaneity, and exploration. Come experience Señor Snail von Slidesmouth, the Tunnel of Snailscendence, Chez ‘Cargot, and EMTeePee. Fun for all ages.
PlayaTune
PlayaTune: Come play a tune and get tuned!
PlayCreate
Camp PlayCreate – We have toys!
Enjoy our shade, sip a drink and participate in one of our many workshops.
Playfully Yours Village
Playfully Yours Village is a collection of adult themed camps. Our main attraction is a well equipped dungeon area for beginners and intermediate level players to come and experience the dungeonous atmosphere. We have several dungeon equipment and toys for you to use or your welcome to bring your own. We can teach you how to use all the equipment and supervise or facilitate your using them. This is a great place to experience a variety of toys like, floggers, paddles, feathers, fur mites, violet wands, and more in a safe and environment. We have a misting booth to help cool off from the heat, a bean bag toss game, and puzzles to challenge your brain. You can live out your exhibitionist and sultry side in The Bare Naked Tramps photo booth. Also, relax and chat in either of out 2 lounges or take a chance with our fun spinning wheel, just remember, if you spin the wheel, you have to do what it says
Playground
Come find an oasis in the desert. Playground will be offering the sights and sounds of a Moroccan experience. A place to recharge and connect, Playground will offer some of the most delicious tunes heard on the playa.
Pleasant Camp
Come to Presence Camp and delight in the joy of the now.
Plug n Play
Bring your iPad, iPod, cell phone, or any small i-device with your electrical adapter to Plug n Play Camp for a recharge utilizing our camp’s solar-powered 120-volt inverter. We encourage you to not leave your device unattended, so stick around, have a drink on us, play some games, or sample some of our chill and deep house electronic dance music.
Plunderground
We are Burning Man theme camp offering a home to interact with fire, found objects and friends at Black Rock City.
PO9
We connect you with the world; we are the ONLY way to get USPS mail to the
playa, as we have been for years. We do: USPS to the Playa, Playa to any (international) address with a unique artistic postmark!, and friendly (and not-so-friendly) posties: stand in line, and fill out your form… in triplicate… with crayon.
Updates: http://twitter.com/brcpo9
Polar Bar
Welcome to the Great White North! Join us for a little taste of Canadian culture and chill in our igloo where frosty delights await.
Polaris
There’s a cool breeze blowing on the playa – Cyberia! We are a community of veteran burners bound by caring and sharing, both on and off the playa. Join us each day for meditation, yoga, belly dancing, and tantra classes. Or just hang out in our chillax dome and enjoy an ice-cold Korean coffee.
Polegasm
Come over to our exclusive facility. We provide the best equipment and instruction there is for creative essence, existential growth, and Polegasms!
Pollination
Make a life-long decision on a whim with an Instant Wedding on the Playa. You probably won’t might not regret it.
Polyhedra
A verdant home alive with the warmth of aloha! Castaways welcomed to paddle up to the tiki lights and toast the night with a Mai Thai.
PolyParadise
The Village of PolyParadise has been influencing the Hearts & Minds and Washing the Bodies of Playa Citizens from ‘2:00 – 10:00’ since 1999 celebrating 19 years in BRC in 2017.
Polyamory involves openness to multiple loving relationships, with honesty among all partners. We welcome ALL Poly & Poly Friendly folks to camp within our borders.
The Village of PolyParadise 2017 welcomes the addition of three Theme Camps within in it’s borders Sugar Bitch | 9 Energies | Twisted Swan.
PolyParadise is NOT a Swinger Camp. Being Poly or Practicing Poly is NOT a requirement for camping with us, but being OPEN MINDED about other people’s lifestyle choices IS!!
PopoVille
Popo Ville is about honoring our patron saint Popo, and how we contribute to making the world a better place one burn at a time. We invite our fellow burners, new and returning, to join us for food, drink, music, games and friendship.
Porch Times
Come relax with us on the porch! Stick around for our events, stories and see why we are such a close camp year round. After a meditation to unfuck yourself, grab a nipple button and recite the three rules. Take a ride on The Muppet Mobile, but mind the gap. Sunset Naked Happy Howl, questionable Yoga & decisions, in general – we’ve got it all! Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle, but don’t forget to maintain thigh contact!
Porks and Recreation
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Porndog
Sodom, Gomorrah, and now back in Black Rock City (as a theme camp) after 10 years! Strap-on corndog feeding/eating; the Playa’s S&M exhibitionist fast food restaurant.
PORTSIDE LOCOS
Portside Locos: a goofy gaggle of middle eastern drummers and noise makers. Come for a drum lesson and recharge in our lounge. Public hydration Oasis.
Positive Deviants
Hotel California is an oasis of generosity where all dusty playa visitors can come re-energize, rest and relax. All guests are welcome to experience our fabulous hospitality: our Day Spa is returning this year with new services – come enjoy a facial, a massage, meditation or temporary tattoos! We will offer Continental Breakfast in the morning, and host Happy Hour in the evening. Our new Pool and Cabanas area will be open anytime for napping and lounging. Our giant glowing steel fire bowl will be on fire every night – warm up with us! You can ask our Concierge advice about playa events and places to check out during the day, take a class in our Workshop Space, and even view panoramic sunsets and sunrises from our rooftop!
Possible Muertos
About our camp, we’re a laid back group, we’ll have a chill out bar area and you can rest and lounge in our Geo Dome. Serving Tequila and Sangria libations.
Our music stylings is really as the caravans move, We have resident DJ’s spinning anything from Lounge to old school trance.
Post Nuclear Family
Our online home ~ mutants are welcome!
Prawn Shop
Trade up! Go AWOL (or commando) at Apocalypse Wow. We’re here to fulfill you need for cold beers, dusty beats and daily shenanigans. All comrades welcome!
Praxis
A congregation of misfits serving cookies and weird experiences on playa since 2010!
We hail from the North, South & East Bay Areas! We got all the bays in our camp! 🙂
Preservation Society
Preservation Society: God save little shops, china cups and virginity
Pretentious Fox
A very international and inter-state gathering of pretentious foxes and other eclectic and venerable animals! We provide an essential neighborhood BAR with good MUSIC, a giant SWINGSET, and several EVENTS including Bloody Mary Brunch!
Pretty Pickle
Pretty Pickle Camp: A relaxed outpost on the road to nowhere featuring cold pickle service to passersby in the afternoon.
Priscilla
Priscilla, Queen of the Doof! Wait, who is she and what is she Queen of?? She is a giant pink bus and the Doof is the party. Priscilla is a big pink party bus from Australia full of fantastic party people! Check it.
Prismaticamp
A community of LED light artists. Join us each night at dusk for prismatic reception, interactive LED art projects and games, and our nightly community LED procession to the night Playa. Also see the schedule for daytime interactive activities including LED fabrication/programming classes, Yoga classes, and Zen Bell ritual.
Prometheatrics
Bringing the gift of Fire to humanity since the dawn of time, Prometheatrics has been a part of Black Rock City since 2002. Historically located on the Esplanade, our theme camp hosts a fine collection of interactive installations and helpful hosts ready to surprise and delight you!
Step inside the temporally anomalous Tesseract, where you’ll experience yourself as you truly are: infinite! Trace your face with our Self Portrait Studio and take home your masterpiece, or shoot a selfie in Clesthyra’s Eye. Enjoy a bounce on our delightful Danpoline or enter the dream-space of the Infinitipi. On your way into or out of our domain, admire all the colors of Burning Man through the radiant Rainbow Scrim, or cast your fortune on our giant I-Ching.
Join us at dusk and dawn at our mirrored stage for twice-daily fire spinning jams, where there’s always a safety on duty and all wicks are welcome. We’re honored to be a part of what makes our city magical, and eager to share what makes us shine!
Psychic Taxi
Psychic Taxi Camp + Golden Guy alley: Come discover the mysteries within a Tokyo-replica alleyway of tiny bars. Make tit-print postcards, ride our psychic taxi to where you never knew you needed to go, and celebrate a wedding to yourself… an interactive adventure of discovery awaits!
Pulsefield
Pulsefield is an interactive open space where the movements of up to 50 participants are simultaneously tracked and used to generate rich video displays on the playa floor with correlated music. With multiple modes of operations and user-driven behavior, the experience is continuously changing.
Purradigm Shift
I don’t think we want to be listed on the website. just the printed map. 2017 printed map name TBD later this summer.
Pussy Avalanche
We bring you together, but not here – this is a big damn place, get out there and explore it. We’ve scattered game hotspots and anonymous dance opportunities – leave your comfort zone and then visit us at camp for loot and hints. https://pussyavalanche.net/
Pussy Day Spa
We will amuse, entertain, and exhilarate you as well as compliment your shoes. We are the perfect place for your pussy to visit to be styled, pampered, refreshed, stimulated, and relaxed.
Putt Putt Palace
The Blissfits “Retirement” Village is a motley crew of seasoned playa vets and offers a more mellow, “Snarkle Pony”, lighthearted fun, to the event. We host 24/7, Shuffle Board zone and hold tournaments daily as well as our friendly bar & quesadilla stand where we aim to please and will take great care of replenishing you along your journey! Namaste..and f ur day.
Pyramid Scheme
House of Maslow: because everyone has needs
Stop by HoM for one of our daily events, or take refuge anytime in our well-appointed lounge.
Pyramid Scheme (inactive)
Home base for construction, maintenance, reconnoitering and recruiting for the MV Pyramid Scheme and playa art installation Luster Cluster.
P³ Oasis
The drinks are on us, the jokes are on you.