In Photos: Nevada Burning Man Festival Exodus

This photo, provided by Maxar Technologies, shows an overview of traffic leaving the Burning Man festival, Sept. 4, 2023, in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada.

Vehicles are seen departing the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, Sept. 4, 2023.

Hundreds of Burning Man attendees who planned to leave on buses wait for information about when they will be able to leave on Labor Day, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud, Sept. 4, 2023.

Vehicles are seen departing the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, Sept. 4, 2023.

This photo, provided by Maxar Technologies, shows an overview of the center camp at the Burning Man festival, Sept. 4, 2023, in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada.

Attendees known as "burners" strike down their Unicorner camp before new rainfalls in a muddy desert plain, Sept. 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit.

A Burning Man participant walks her bike through the mud near the exit, after a severe rainstorm left tens of thousands of revelers attending the annual festival stranded in mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, Sept. 3, 2023.

A pair of Teva sandals are seen on a chest in the middle of tents sitting in a muddy desert plain, Sept. 3, 2023. Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire.

This handout provided courtesy of Instagram user djsharam, Sept. 3, 2023 shows bicycles sitting amongst flooding on a desert plain after heavy rains on Sept. 2, 2023, in Nevada's Black Rock desert. 

The Man structure, which is normally burned on Saturday night, looms over the Burning Man encampment after a severe rainstorm left tens of thousands of revelers stranded in mud in the Nevada desert, Sept. 3, 2023. (USA Today Network)

Attendees walk through a muddy desert plain, Sept. 2, 2023, after heavy rains in Nevada's Black Rock desert. All events at the counterculture festival, which drew some 70,000 people, were canceled after rain tore down structures for dance parties, art installations and other eclectic entertainment. 

A couple walks through the mud at Burning Man after a night of dancing with friends in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud, Sept. 2, 2023. (USA Today Network)

A Burning Man participant makes their way through the mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud, Sept. 2, 2023.

View of the muddy terrain during the Burning Man event at the temporary desert settlement of Black Rock City, Nevada, Sept. 2, 2023 in this still image from social media video.

A Burning Man attendee lies down in the mud and water at the event in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm, Sept. 2, 2023.

This handout image provided courtesy of Josh Lease on Sept. 3, 2023 shows a rainbow over flooding on a desert plain on Sept. 1, 2023, after heavy rains at the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert.