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Directions to Burning Man from Phoenix &
Tucson (Open
as a PDF) This is the shortest known route to Burning Man from Arizona. You should also consider in your plans that speed limits are 55mph for all vehicles towing trailers in California. There are no lower speeds for towing in Arizona or Nevada. This can add hours to the trip if you use the California route. Also consider gas in California being more expensive. Take I-10 through PHX and follow the signs that say I-10 West-Los Angeles. Continue out past Dysart and Litchfield roads to Cotton Lane- Loop 303. Take the Loop 303 exit and turn right onto Loop 303. Go down about 15 miles until 303 intersects at Highway 60 to Wickenburg. This is a good road with only a couple stop signs or lights and light traffic. There is an Albertson's grocery store and gas station on Loop 303 about 3 miles or so before you get to US-60. It is on your left in a shopping Plaza at the intersection of Bell Rd and Loop 303/Cotton lane. I recommend buying gas there. It is at least 20 cents a gallon cheaper than Wickenburg, which is about 20 miles away. Pay attention after you go past Bell Road, the Junction to US 60 is just down the road. There is an overpass at US-60 and a turn you must take when you get to the US-60/Loop 303 Junction. At US-60 turn left to Wickenburg. You must take a dog leg to the right before the overpass and then turn left and go under the overpass. This junction turn off is marked with a small sign that is easy to miss. Once you get to downtown Wickenburg, you will have a recently constructed bypass route for highway US-93 to Wikiup and I-40 to Kingman. If you miss the bypass down the road at the traffic light and Circle K you still have the option of turning right to get to US-93. The next gas is in Wikiup. There are two 24 hour gas stations there if you need them. The area around Wikiup is patrolled by the Highway Patrol. They have a zero tolerance for speeders. Once you get to Kingman you will go the usual route on I-40 out of town. Pay Attention to the signs on the west end of Kingman. You must exit I- 40 again at US-93. It is very easy to miss. You must take this exit whether you are going over Hoover Dam or the Bullhead City bypass and around through Searchlight. If you have an RV or heavily packed vehicle with a trailer, they allow those across the dam if you consent to a cursory search. However if your vehicle is so tightly packed that they can't inspect it, you will be sent back the other way. Warning the inspections at Hoover are getting more involved. It is up to you to decide if the time it saves using the Hoover dam route is worth the hassle. Also they will not let you cross the dam if you have over 25 gallons of fuel stored in gas cans in your trailer. Official Hoover Dam guidelines are located at this link: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/crossingguide.pdf Instead of taking the exit to Hoover Dam you may want to use the Laughlin-Bullhead City route. A little warning, the grades over these mountains and down to the river are steep and will be the hardest grades of the entire trip. If you are loaded heavy you will need to use your gears to help control speeds on the down grade. Also pay attention to your engine temperature on these grades. This is where a lot of RV's and heavy loaded vehicles overheat. There is a bridge across the river at the bottom of the grade. Pay close attention to the road signs that will direct you over the bridge. When you leave Laughlin you'll go up to Boulder City and Vegas by way of Searchlight Nevada. Once in Boulder City you are back on the standard route into Vegas. Las Vegas does have heavy daytime rush hour traffic. If possible, it is best to plan your drive through Vegas to avoid the morning and late afternoon rush hours. You will go through Las Vegas on I-515 / US-95. You need to watch the signs at the Downtown Las Vegas interchange. Make sure you stay on US-95 to Beatty and Tonopah which takes you up the Western edge of Nevada The last gas in Vegas is way out around Ann Rd. There is a few stations out past Ann Road now. But we try to stop someplace in that area because there is food and gas 24 hours a day at the Ann Road exit. This is the last relatively cheap gas you will find in Nevada. For current info on Nevada gas prices, particularly larger metro areas try this link: http://www.nevadagasprices.com/ The next gas and food are in Indian Springs about 60 miles away. Generally, Indian Springs, Beatty, Tonopah and Hawthorne are about 15 to 20 cents per gallon higher than Las Vegas. Beatty is just about half way to Burning Man for those coming from Tucson. Baileys Hot Springs-RV Park is on the far north end of Beatty about 3 miles out of town on your right on the way to Tonopah. They have RV parking, rest rooms and showers plus enclosed Hot springs for $16.00 per vehicle. This is an old haunt for AZBurners on the way to Burning Man. If you stop over you will probably find someone there you know. Be sure and tell the owner you heading to Burning Man. He can tell you who has already come and gone and when they left. He will even give other Burners that stop a note or message if needed. If you arrive at Baileys Hot Springs after the office is closed it is totally OK to find a spot and park and pay when they open in the morning. Sometimes they have an after hours person who may stop by your vehicle to collect the fee. Be advised that the Hot springs are locked after 8pm. There are no facilities to dump RV holding tanks at Baileys Hot Springs. There are a couple 24 hour Gas stations and a Motel in Beatty if you need them. Warning the next gas stations are 100 miles down the road. If you are not sure you can make it, get gas in Beatty. Goldfield has no gas! Down the road in Tonopah there is free truck and RV parking at the Banc Club Casino. You can sleep there and have breakfast in the casino the next morning. There are several 24 hour gas stations in Tonopah. Warning! Tonopah is well known speed trap. The highway through town is patrolled 24 hours a day. The speed limit through town is 25 mph, Do Not speed in this area. Most of us just get gas there and move on. There is a free RV dump at the Casino in downtown Hawthorne and at the Shell Truck stop on the North end of Hawthorn. They also have clean hot private showers for 8 dollars a person. If you decide to park and sleep at this truck stop, this would probably be your last chance for a nice long hot shower for another week! If you want a sit down meal in Hawthorne, El Capitan Casino's restaurant will be on your right as you enter Hawthorne. This restaurant closes at midnight on weeknights and is open 24 hours on weekends. The last stop is Fallon and Fernley. This will be the last "for sure" place for supplies and cheap gas. As you come into Fallon on highway 95 there is a convenience store on the right, Across the street is a restaurant called the "Cock and Bull". We recommend this restaurant from past experience. It is reasonably priced and has general home style and diner type food. However we DO NOT recommend Jerry's in Fallon, which many of us stopped at in the past. It is in middle of town on Hwy 50- Williams Ave. Jerry's in Fallon has bad food and very slow service. They are also not friendly to Burners and have been quite nasty to some of our people in the past. When you come into Fallon you'll take a left in town to Fernley and Reno. The intersection where you make the turn is well marked. This is the Junction of Hwy 95 and Hwy 50. Just down the road on the right after you make the turn onto Hwy 50-Williams Road will be a Safeway store. Down the road further is a 24 hour Super Wal-Mart. If you need a tire replaced for your rig or trailer the Wal-Mart has them. Fallon has a Radio-Shack, Napa, Ace hardware and Checker Auto supply along that same road as Safeway and Wal-Mart. Note that there is now a Super Wal-Mart in Fernley. After you leave Fallon you will head out Hwy 50 to Fernley, then to Hwy 427 to Wadsworth, then in Wadsworth take a right on Hwy 447 to Nixon, Empire and Gerlach. On the way out of Fallon a few miles down the road on the right is The SAGE VALLEY RV Park, formerly known as "The Hub". Here is where you can get water, Propane and a hot shower if you need it. As you get near Fernley there is a traffic circle or "round about". You will enter the circle on your right. The first exit out of the circle will take you over a bridge to the I-80 junction. There you will find gas and a shopping plaza with a Scolari's grocery store. The grocery store closes at 9pm! Across the street from the Grocery store is a 24 hour Super Wal-Mart, a Shell station that also has diesel, Autozone, a tire store, Home Depot, a resturant and a couple hotels. You can enter I- 80 there and head to Reno and get off at the exit to Burning MAn. After getting on I-80 take the next Exit 46 to Wadsworth, Nevada Hwy 427. You need to get off there and head to Wadsworth-Nixon. At the 1-80 Junction, Exit 46 in Fernley there is a Loves Truck stop where you can also get fuel. They also have an RV dump station. Try to stock up with everything in Fallon or Fernley. There is a small country store in Empire but it gets cleaned out pretty quick. Don't wait until Empire or you may have to do without. From the I-80 Junction at HWY 427 (Exit 46), it is about 100 miles to Burning Man. Due to traffic and low speed limits on the reservation, this last stretch will take you at least 2 hours driving time. Be careful on this road. Obey the speed limit at all times. The local and state police are out in force during Burning Man. Do not give them a reason to pull you over. You will be passing through two Indian reservations on this road. Both have zero tolerance for speeding. If you get pulled over for speeding it is pretty much guaranteed they want to search your car. These guidelines are not designed or intended to replace good sound trip planning, or recently printed maps. As always please use a road map to plan your trip.
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