Travel Information for Nevada Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Nevada attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Nevada state park, this is where you will find it.
Go to NEVADA and you can spend the night in an Aladdin's cave, in a pyramid, in Venice, in Casablanca or overlooking breathtaking Lake Tahoe, or spend a night in a ghost town ... it's part of the casino glitz and glamour of Las Vegas or Reno, the tranquility of Lake Tahoe; but visitors can also enjoy the history of the Old West, scenic and historic recreation areas, or go golfing, hiking, biking, climbing, and enjoying watersports. Five miles east of Great Basin National Park, home of ancient bristlecone pines.
Lehman Caves at BAKER offers displays of stalactites and stalagmites.
History buffs enjoy a stop on BATTLE MOUNTAIN at the Trail of the 49ers Interpretive Center commemorating the pioneers who traveled the Gold Rush Trail.
BEATTY is the gateway to the eerie badlands of Death Valley National Park and a few miles east of Rhyolite, one of the most photographed ghost towns in the West. BERLIN is a remnant of an early mining camp and the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park includes an enclosed archaeological dig site of the fossil remains of gigantic fish-like reptiles.
BONNIE SPRINGS is an 1880s mining town with a taste of the Old West at Bonnie Springs Old Nevada.
BOULDER CITY is the gateway to Hoover Dam; soft adventure raft trips on the Colorado river start at the base of Hoover Dam with Black Canyon River Raft Tours, and nearby is Bruno's Indian and Turquoise Museum.
Points of interest at CARSON CITY, Nevada's state capital, include the native sandstone State Capitol, the Nevada State Museum in the former U.S. Mint, the Nevada State Railroad Museum, and the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada with hands-on interactive exhibits; visitors can travel the blue-line Kit Carson Trail along the downtown sidewalks for a 2.5-mile walking tour of over 60 points of interest including the historic U.S. Mint and 24 "Talking Houses", Sharkey's Memorabilia Collection at Sharkey's Casino, and Gardnerville jammed with a unique collection of Western art, boxing memorabilia, circus items and saddle.
ELKO is a magnet for Western American folk art; exhibits at the Northeastern Nevada Museum include mastodon, ranching, mining, wildlife, fossils, firearms, local Basque history and Native American baskets; and contemporary folk art and cowboy gear at the Western Folklife Center.
ELY A former copper-mining town. The East Ely Railroad Depot Museum preserves the mining and transportation heritage of Eastern Nevada. The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is a major collection of historic rolling stock. The White Pine Public Museum exhibits reflect the mining and railroading lifestyles of the early settlers and includes the Hesselgesser collection of over 660 dolls. Nearby at the Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Site are six 30-foot tall kilns that provided charcoal for the smelter at the Ward mining camp.
EUREKA is a well preserved 19th-century mining town.
Known for its cantaloupes and fighter planes, FALLON is home to the U.S. Navy’s Top Gun flight school and the Churchill County Museum and Archives where guides take visitors through the Hidden Cave on a quarter-mile, uphill trail to the ancient storage site for local Native Americans; Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge provides a temporary home in the desert to hundreds of species of migratory birds; the Top Gun Speedway is a drag racing facility.
The Wigwam Native American Museum, FERNLEY, features arrowheads, stone tools, baskets, beadwork, Kachina dolls and original Western art. HAWTHORNE is home to a picturesque golf course, and to Mineral County Historical Museum.
Just 7 miles from the Las Vegas Strip and a mile from beautiful Lake Mead , HENDERSON has the Clark County Heritage Museum and Ron Lee's World of Clowns where clown figurines are made along with figurines of Disney and Warner Bros. characters.
In addition to LAKE TAHOE's renowned summer and wintertime recreation, there is a plethora of history, family fun and 24-hour entertainment to enjoy year-round; Ponderosa Ranch is the home of the "Bonanza" Western TV series with the Cartwright ranch house; the Heavenly Aerial Tram takes visitors on a five-minute tram ride to an elevation of 8,250 feet for spectacular views of Lake Tahoe, plus hiking and interpretive walks; Lake Tahoe's Zephyr Cove Resort serves as home port to the M.S. Dixie II Paddlewheeler, and the Tahoe Rim Trail is a 150-mile system of hiking and equestrian trails around the Lake Tahoe ridgetops.
Boasting more neon lights than any other city, LAS VEGAS is home to 18 of the largest hotels in the country; on the Las Vegas Strip visitors can view the pirate-ship battle Buccaneer Bay Sea Battle, free circus acts at Adventuredome at Circus Circus, multi-chambered magical dining and entertainment at Caesar's Magical Empire, and live medieval-style jousting in Excalibur Hotel & Casinos "King Arthur's Tournament"; they can visit resorts that capture the essence of Ancient Egypt, an Arthurian kingdom, Rome, Venice, New York, Monte Carlo, Paris and various tropical paradises; Vegas offers shoppers an array of options: at the Fremont Street Experience the canopy comes alive every evening with senses-pounding light and sound shows that add to the excitement of a place often known as “Glitter Gulch”; in The Fountain Show in the Forum Shops at Caesars Roman statues come to life with special lighting effects; the city's museums range from the archeological through Guinness World of Records Museum, Madame Tussaud's Celebrity Encounter, to the memorabilia of the legendary entertainer at the Liberace Museum. There are five Cowboy Trail Rides and as befits its title “Entertainment Capital of the World”, Las Vegas has a legion of entertainments like the Magic and Movie Hall of Fame at O'Sheas Hilton Casino, the outdoor entertainment complex MGM Grand Theme Park , an outerspace shuttlecraft ride at Las Vegas Hilton’s Star Trek: The Experience, the Stratosphere Tower, an observation tower with two thrill rides 100 storeys high, the bathing Treasures of Mandalay Bay, and theme parks like Wet 'n Wild and Gameworks.
LAUGHLIN resort town at the southernmost tip of Nevada on the banks of the Colorado River has transformed part of the arid, rugged Mohave desert into a fast growing tourist destination.
At the center of LOVELOCK is one of the state’s architectural oddities, the Pershing County Courthouse, a unique, oval building believed to be the only round courthouse in the country.
MESQUITE is a resort town with the interesting Desert Valley Museum.
Visitors can stop for a tasting at PAHRUMP Valley Vineyards.
A small town on State Route 375, Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway”, RACHEL serves as headquarters for UFO hunters and, of course, alien-related souvenirs.
Apart from the hotel-casinos of Nevada’s original gambling and divorce capital, visitors to RENO can discover the automobile’s historic role while viewing more than 200 antique, classic and concept cars in authentic street settings at the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah's Collection); other attractions include the Fleischmann Planetarium, the Wilbur D. May Center with the collections of Wilbur D. May's numerous world travels and life as a Nevada rancher, the Sierra Safari Zoo, Boomtown's Family Fun Center and the Nevada Museum of Art.
Downtown SPARKS is the location of Victorian Square where the facades of the buildings, amphitheater and bandstand gives old fashioned ambiance and charm to the nearby Sparks casinos and which hosts unique special events including rib-cook-offs, car shows and festivals; kids of all ages love Sparks' Wild Island Family Recreation Center.
TONOPAH is famed for its silver mining and visitors can learn about the region’s mining history at the 70-acre Tonopah Mining Park and the Central Nevada Museum.
Historic and photogenic 19th-century VIRGINIA CITY is the heart of the Comstock mining district and with its wooden sidewalks and falsefront saloons, restaurants and businesses remains a major attraction; the Piper's Opera House, listed by the League of Historic Theaters, was built in the 1880s; other attractions include the Comstock Firemen's Museum, and the Nevada Gambling Museum.
WINNEMUCCA is near the well-preserved ruins of several nearly-abandoned Nevada mining camps.
YERINGTON is a picturesque rural town in the heart of the Mason Valley, and home to Lyon County Museum which depicts the history of two valleys over the last 130 years.
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