Who We Are
Nobo House is an international wellness and recovery camp at Burning Man, on the playa since 2018. We’re a recharge camp, not a party camp — a small, tightly organized home base built by and for Dusty Donkeys who work hard, play hard, and rest hard.
Each year, roughly 100–150 people from a dozen countries assemble a small civilization out of steel frames, stretch tents, and shipping containers — about 19,000 square feet of shade, power, water, kitchen, showers, a desert gym, and a steam room — and then take it all down again. The visible week is only a sliver of the work. The other ten months are planning, prep, and the slow craft of building leaders who can run it.
From No Boundaries to Nobo House
We started around 2018 as “No Boundaries” — a smaller camp of laser mazes, murder-mystery dinners, and 50–70 people. After listening to years of camper surveys, we deliberately narrowed our focus to wellness and recovery and rebuilt the camp around it. Same family, sharper intention: a place to rest, move, and reset in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
What We Believe
Our culture runs on a simple idea: you don’t pay for service, you pay for the right to make it run. The camp serves the city, not itself — most of what we build is gifted to all of Black Rock City. Everyone takes at least one real operating commitment. We hold each other with both kindness and firmness, gift our energy without keeping score, and balance joyful intensity with the wisdom to chill out. Dusty Donkeys, not Sparkle Ponies.
Those beliefs are spelled out in The 10 Principles of Nobo House — our guiding philosophy, nested inside Burning Man’s ten.
A Camp From Everywhere
12+ countries. Roughly 45% people of color. Ages 21 to 75+. The single line that returns in our camper survey every year: “I felt like I belonged here.” That belonging is the thing we protect above everything else.
Come Build With Us
Nobo House receives about twice as many applications as we have spaces. If the work-hard, rest-hard ethos sounds like home, tell us who you are.
We’ll see you in the dust.