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Burning Man Festival: Traffic Jams Create Hours-long Trek
About 70,000 people are expected to attend the art and music festival that runs until Sept. 4.
BLACK ROCK CITY, NV — Anyone hoping to go to this year's Burning Man festival may want to reconsider as tens of thousands sat in enormous traffic jams to get to the remote part of the northwestern Nevada desert.
Festival goers spent between up to five hours to travel less than five miles from Black Rock City ahead of the festival's start on Sunday, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. Black Rock City is about 120 miles north of Reno.
USA Today reported that volunteers built a temporary airport in a dry lakebed for the nine-day festival. The airport is built every year and averages as many as 800 takeoffs and landings a day.
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About 70,000 people are expected to attend the art and music festival that runs until Sept. 4.
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Photo credit: Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP