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38,000 Burning Man tickets sell out in 44 minutes

A wooden figure known as "The Man" burns in the Black Rock Desert at the close of the Burning Man festival in 2007 in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Andy Barron, file)
People gather around the Trojan Horse at it is pulled across the "playa" at the Burning Man festival in Gerlach, Nev. on Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Andy Barron)
In this Sept. 2, 2010 photo, Jeffery Bale, of Portland, Oregon, uses a scarf to play with the wind at the annual Burning Man counterculture art festival, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. It's never been so hard to be a hippie. A quarter century after the free spirits moved their party from San Francisco's Baker Beach to a dried up ancient lake bed 110 miles north of Reno, the Burning Man counterculture festival is faced with turning large numbers of its longtime participants away. With its drum circles and decorated art cars, guerilla theatrics and colorful theme camps, the annual pilgrimage to the playa in the name of both everything and nothing has become just too darn popular for its own good. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Andy Barron)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 27, 2014 - 3:01 pm
 

RENO — Tickets to the Burning Man festival in the Northern Nevada desert are just as hot as ever.

It only took 44 minutes to sell all 38,000 tickets offered Wednesday, according to organizers.

It’s the single biggest block of tickets that will be sold for the counter-culture festival that attracted a record-breaking 68,000 people to the Black Rock Desert last year.

Burning Man spokeswoman Megan Miller told the Reno Gazette-Journal that everything went smoothly with its new online ticketing partner, Ticketfly, where tickets sold for $380.

Some 3,000 tickets were sold on a presale basis for $650. Another 15,000 tickets are set aside mostly for theme camps and 4,000 for qualifiers in a low-income program at a cost of $190. The final 1,000 public tickets go on sale July 31 for $380.

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