Nevada (NV)

State Flag of Nevada

 

"The Silver State"

"Battle Born State", Sagebrush State", "Sage-hen State" and "Silver State"

Why visit Nevada?

Great for birdwatching, casinos, deserts, entertainment, fishing, foodies, geology, ghost towns, helicopter experiences, hiking, hunting, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, watersports, wildflowers and zip-lining.

Las Vegas Landmark, Las Vegas, NV. Photo Credit: skeeze/Pixabay 

A popular destination for:

• Amateur & Professional Photographers
• Conventions, Meetings & Reunions
• Destination Wedding
• Groups: Family, Friends, Multigenerational and Reunions
• Milestones: Anniversary, Bachelor Party, Bachelorette Party, Birthday, Honeymoon, Retirement and Vow Renewal

Seven Magic Mountain Sculptures, Las Vegas, NV. Photo Credit: Rudi Nockewel/Pixabay  

At a Glance

• Capital: Carson City
• State Bird: Mountain Bluebird
• State Dessert: None
• State Flower: Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata)
• State Gemstone: Nevada Turquoise and Virgin Valley Black Fire Opal 
• State Mammal: Desert Bighorn Sheep
• State Rock: Sandstone 

Great Reno Balloon Race, Reno, NV. Photo Credit: debi1016/Pixabay 

Fun Facts

• One of the oldest human remains estimated to be 9,400 years old ever found in North America was found buried in a cave, Spirit Cave Man (Fallon).
  
• In 1859, gold was discovered at Comstock Lode (Virginia City). Today, the fourth-largest producer of gold in the world.
  
• From 1951-1962, tested nuclear weapons and underground testing of weapons until 1992.
• In 2015, same sex marriages became legal.
  
• The Federal Government is known to own 80% of the state.
• The only state where brothel's and prostitution is legal. Illegal in Carson City, Las Vegas and Reno.
  
• Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) aid families to help pay the tuition for private schools, textbooks and tutoring otherwise at a poverty level.
  
• Has the most hotel rooms per capita, averaging one hotel room for every 14 residents.
• Home to over 165,000 slot machines, the largest jackpot won was at Excalibur Hotel Casino in the amount of $39,713,982.25 from Los Angeles visitor.
• Home to gourmet premium chocolate, Ethel M Chocolates, a division of Mars, Incorporated.
• Las Vegas has over 300 weddings a day.
• Features 2 National Forests and 24 State Parks.

Valley of Fire State Park, Overton, NV. Steve Adcock/Pixabay 

Thank You!

• Spotlight Celebrities: Brandon Flowers (Musician), Bryce Harper (Athlete), Kris Bryant (Athlete) and Matthew Gray Gubler (Actor), just to name a few.
• Movies to Inspire You: Casino (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost in America (1985), The Misfits (1961), The Professionals (1966), Top Gun 1986) and Waking Up in Reno (2002), just to name a few.
• Reads Set in Nevada: Based on a True Story (written by 
  Norm Macdonald)
  Battleborn (written by 
  Claire Vaye Watkins), 
  Mountain City (written by 
  Gregory Martin), 
  Roughing It (written by Mark Twain) and The General (written by Robert Muchamore), just to name a few.

Grand Canyon, NV. Photo Credit: mgrayis/Pixabay 

Good to Know

• Amtrak stops daily in Reno and Truckee.
• Beware of Heat Strokes, symptoms include: confusion, dizziness, fast/strong pulse, headache, high body temperature, nausea, passing out and skin changes (damp, dry, hot or red).
• Lodging Tax Rate varies between 12%-13%.
  
• Beware of poisonous black widow spiders, scorpions and snakes.
• Nevada Law prohibits "chips" to be used for anything other than gambling.
  
• High altitude will cause fatigue and intoxican faster than normal.
  
• Rules often vary between casinos.
• There's no "Last Call" as bars are permitted to be open 24 hours. Alcohol is also sold 24 hours in convenience stores, liquor stores and supermarkets.
  
• "The Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act" (smoking ban) does not apply to bars serving food, brothels, certain hotel rooms, large casinos and tobacco shops.
  

Subject to (occasional) earthquakes, heat waves, humidity, (rare) hurricanes, mountain snowstorms, tornados, wildfires and windstorms.

• Best Time to Visit: March - April and October - November
• Coldest Month: December
• Hottest Months: June - September

Hoover Dam, NV. Photo Credit: LoggaWiggler/Pixabay 

Your Must-See & Do

• Historical Sites: Fort Churchill, Fort Ruby, Francis G Newlands Home,  Hoover Dam, Leonard Rockshelter,  McKeen Motor Car #70, Nevada Northern Railway and Virginia City Historic District.
• Museums: Atomic Testing Museum, Aviation Museum, Battle Mountain Cookhouse Museum, Buckaroo Hall of Fame, Burlesque Hall of Fame, California Trail Interpretive Center, Central Nevada Museum, Children's Museum of Northern Nevada, Churchill County Museum, Clark County Museum, Discovery Children's Museum, Erotic Heritage Museum, Eureka Sentinel Museum, Fourth Ward School Museum, Goldwell Open Air Museum, Hoover Dam Museum, Humboldt Museum, John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Liberace Museum, Lost City Museum, Lyon County Museum, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, National Atomic Testing Museum, National Automobile Museum, Nevada Historical Society, Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada Northern Railway Museum, Nevada State Museum, Nevada State Railroad Museum,  Nevada State Railroad Museum Boulder City, Nostalgia Street Rods, Northeastern Nevada Museum, Pinball Hall of Fame, Springs Preserve, Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum, The Discovery - Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, The Mob Museum, The Neon Museum, The Nevada State Museum, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Virgin Valley Heritage Museum, Way It Was Museum, Western Folklife Center, White Pine Public Museum, Wilbur D May Center, W. M. Keck Earth Science & Mineral Engineering Museum and Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum.
• Popular Attractions: Animal Ark, Area 51, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Basin & Range National Monument, Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Big Shot, Black Rock Desert, Boulder Beach, Burnt Cedar Beach, Cathedral Gorge State Park, Charleston Peak, Chimney Beach, Cirque du Soleil,  College of Southern Nevada Planetarium, Comstock Lode, Cowabunga Bay, Death Valley National Park, Eiffel Tower Experience, Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden, Exploration Peak Park, Dig This, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Ethel M Botanical Cactus Gardens, Fire Wave, Flamingo Wildlife Habitat, Fleischmann Planetarium,  Flightlinez Bootleg Canyon, Floyd Lamb Park, Fly Geyser, Fremont Street Experience, Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary, Gondola Rides, Great Basin National Park, Guardian Angel Cathedral, Heavenly Gondola & Adventure Park, Hershey's Chocolate World, Hidden Beach Plaza, Hidden Cave, High Roller, Hoover Dam, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Idlewild Park, International Car Forest of the Last Church, Inyo National Forest, Lake Las Vegas, Lake Mead, Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, Lamoille Canyon, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, Lee Canyon, Lehman Caves, Lion Habitat Ranch, Little A’Le’Inn, LoveLock Cave, Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N, Metropolitan Gallery, Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, Mojave Desert, Mount Charleston, Mouse's Tank Road, NASCAR's Pennzoil 400, National Bowling Stadium, Nevada Beach, Nevada State Capitol, Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park, Parashant National Monument, Pinball Hall of Fame, Piper’s Opera House, Pyramid Lake, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Riverwalk, Ruby Mountains, Rhyolite, Sand Harbor Beach, Secret Cove,Seven Magic Mountains, Shark Reef Aquarium, Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden & Dolphin Habitat, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sierra Nevada Zoological Park, Silent Heroes Of The Cold War National Memorial, Ski Beach, SkyJump, Skypod, SlotZilla Zipline, South Point 400, Spencer Hot Springs, Spirit Cave Man, Sportsmans Beach, Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, Spring Mountain Range, Springs Preserve, Stremmel Gallery, The Adventuredome Indoor Theme Park, The Exhibition (Bodies), The Linq Promenade, The Volcano, Thunder Mountain Monument, Tonopah Historic Mining Park, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, Valley of Fire State Park, Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign, Wet‘n’Wild Las Vegas, Whale Beach, Wild Island Family Adventure Park and X-Scream.
• Popular Cities/Towns to Visit: Belmont, Boulder City, Carson City, Enterprise, Fallon, Genoa, Henderson, Indian Springs, Las Vegas, Laughlin, Paradise, Reno, Searchlight, Sparks, Spring Valley, Sunrise Manor and Virginia City. 
• Special Events: (January) National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Otakon Vegas, World of Concrete, (February) Taste And Sounds Of Soul, (March) Amusement Expo, Neon Reverb, (April) Academy of Country Music (ACM) Party for a Cause, Bender Jamboree, Emerge Impact & Music, Holi Festival of Colors, Indian Food & Cultural Festival, Las Rageous, Laughlin River Run,  Reno Jazz Festival, Tinker Classic Cycling Festival & Race, Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, (May) 24 Hours of Country Music Festival, Best Dam Barbecue Challenge, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), European Music Fest, Helldorado Days, Jim Butler Days & Nevada State Mining Championships, Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, Reno River Festival, Vino Del Lago Jazz Festival, (June) DEF CON, Las Vegas Death Fest, Las Vegas Elvis Festival, Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen, Reno Rodeo, Stewart Father’s Day Powwow, (July) Artown, Chalk Art Festival, Evolution Championship Series (Evo), Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, National Basque Festival, RollerCon, Silver State Stampede, (August) Burning Man, Fallon Cantaloupe Festival & Country Fair, Goldfield Days, Hot August Nights, Psycho Fest, Underground Link Music Festival, (September) Burning Man Arts Festival, Fears Tears & Beers Mountain Bike Enduro, Genoa Candy Dance Arts & Crafts Faire, Great Basin Astronomy Festival, Great Reno Balloon Race, iHeartRadio Music Festival, International Camel & Ostrich Races, Las Vegas Bikefest, Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival, National Championship Air Races, Silver State Classic Challenge, World Human Powered Speed Challenge, (October) Age of Chivalry Festival, Annual Rose Regatta, Off Beat Music Festival, Rise Lantern Festival, SNAFU Con, Vegas Beer & Music Festival, World Championship Outhouse Races, (November) Anime Vegas, Pahrump Social Powwow, (December) America’s Party and Reno Santa Pub Crawl.

Las Vegas Strip, NV. Photo Credit: David Mark/Pixabay 

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