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📍 Gerlach⬆ 3,904 ft6 runways
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Black Rock City Airport

40.75733°N
-119.21286°W
ARR / DAY
2
▲ 1600.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 33.3%

Black Rock City Airport (88NV) is a small general aviation airport located in Gerlach, NV, 90 mi north of Reno. It features 6 runways with the longest being 6,022 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KLOL, 59 mi away (88NV does not publish METAR)

17m ago
Temp
72°F
Wind
4 kts
20°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KLOL 281253Z AUTO 02004KT 10SM OVC100 22/05 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP131 T02220050

Runways

6 installed

6,022 FT MAX
04/22
5,280 ft × 50
DIRT○ unlitCLOSED
5L/23R
6,022 ft × 75
Dirt● LIT
5R/23L
6,015 ft × 75
Dirt● LIT
H1
50 ft × 50
Dirt○ unlit
H2
50 ft × 50
Dirt○ unlit
H3
50 ft × 50
Dirt○ unlit

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

23L
71% of ops
15 land · 0 TO
23R
14% of ops
3 land · 4 TO
5L
10% of ops
2 land · 0 TO
5R
5% of ops
1 land · 0 TO
Runway 23L carries 71% of operations (15 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23R at 14%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

23L 15 landings
UA 0%
23R 3 landings
UA 33%
5L 2 landings
UA 0%
5R 1 landings
UA 100%
Approaches to 23L show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 15 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
0.9
flights/day · 26 total
Busy hour (local)
1am
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
42%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1am–7pm local, averaging 0.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.1× weekday (0.1 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

5 · 19%
3 · 12%
3 · 12%
2 · 8%
2 · 8%
2 · 8%
Activity is led by (19% of 26 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
14° E

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

2
nontexan
09/27/2016
Spread the playa dust
An interesting set up in the middle of the playa for the Burning Man event. Two runways were in place for 2016, one used for landing, one for take off. Be careful when taxiing - since the playa dust gets sent everywhere! Had fun landing a C310 here!
svanarts
09/01/2013
Burning man!
Amazing place to fly to! You got to go some time!
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