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Reno, Nevada has come a long way from its days as β€œjust” a premier casino town. Don’t get us wrong; top-notch Reno casinos still serve up the world-class entertainment, grand buffets, spa pamperings, and 24-hour gaming that put it on the map. But today’s visitors also come Reno’s public art obsession, bohemian shops, dynamic music scene, unbeatable outdoor action, all-the-time events lineup, and local-centric foodie landscapeβ€”spread across several distinct, walkable neighborhoods. Get in the know with our guide to the Biggest Little City in the World.

The Brand New Biggest Little City in The World

Reno, Nevada: All-the-Time Action, Inside & Out

The Biggest Little City has come a long way from its Wild West origins. And seemingly just as far from its days as β€œjust” a premier casino town in northern Nevada. Don’t get us wrong; top-notch Reno casinos still serve up the world-class entertainment, grand buffets, spa pamperings, and 24-hour gaming that put Reno and Washoe County on the map (long before Vegas, we might add). It’s just that, today, they are but one thread of a town that’s now equally as known for its public art obsession, bohemian shops, dynamic music scene, all-the-time events lineup, and local-centric foodie landscapeβ€”spread across several distinct, walkable neighborhoods.

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Northwestern

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Downtown Reno

For decades, millions of visitors each year have flocked to Downtown Reno, home to the famous Reno Arch, the iconic Reno casinos rising from Virginia Street, and street-closing events that draw crowds by the thousands. It remains the tourist epicenter of a flourishing city that has only gotten more vibrant with time. 

The Downtown Reno Riverwalk, along the picturesque Truckee River, is a green, sculpture-studded thoroughfare lined with restaurants, coffee shops, craft beer halls, and anchored by island-like Wingfield Park, the site of live music and exciting events, and a harbor for summertime swimmers, river tubers, and kayakers tackling the holes and drop pools of the Truckee River Whitewater Park, , especially during the annual Reno River Festival.

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Downtown Reno Riverwalk

Surrounding blocks reveal local theaters, the chic boutiques housed in The Basement of the recently restored Old Post Office Building, the cool cafΓ©s and trendy taverns of California Street, the lively Freight House District around Greater Nevada Field (AKA the Reno Aces Ballpark, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Triple-A affiliate), the hands-on art and maker studios and markets down Dickerson Road, and cultural institutions like the National Automobile Museum, Discovery Museum, and Nevada Museum of Art.

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Midtown Reno
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Downtown Reno Arch

Midtown Reno

And then there’s the Midtown District. Here, in Reno’s hippest neighborhood, the pulse of this town’s revivalist spirit beats good and loud. Full of funky boutiques, score-filled vintage shops, Burning Man costume emporiums, swanky bistros, art galleries, and cocktail havens, but also plenty of rockin’ music venues, tap houses, tattoo parlors, and ever-changing murals adorning nearly every brick… this formerlyβ€”shall we sayβ€”grittier, mid-century district feels at once fresh and alive, yet also carefully intent on preserving just enough spunky edge to hold onto its street cred. 

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Midtown Reno
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Some of our faves? Junkee for vintage duds. PiΓ±on Bottle Co. for dozens of craft brews. Midtown Wine Bar for vino by the glass. Chapel Tavern and Reno Public House for schmancy cocktails. Brasserie Saint James for elevated eats. Beefy’s for bodacious burgers. Noble Pie Parlor for hipster pizza. Reno Coffee Co. for fancy joe. And Natural Selection for succulents, antique taxidermy, and other awesomely odd items. But really, just hit the sidewalk and follow your curiosity. If you somehow manage not to find something you love, we’ll be seriously impressed.

Reno Outdoors

As one of the West’s premier recreation hubs, Reno’s always got the inside scoop on getting outside. Whether visitors are driving gear-packed adventure mobiles or carrying conspicuously ski-shaped luggage through the Reno airport, outdoor recreationalists of all stripes know Reno is their gateway to adventure. Located an hour from world-famous Lake Tahoe, the Sierra Nevada beckons powderhounds to 18 area ski resorts, mountain bikers and hikers to thousands of trails, golfers to PGA-class courses, and beach bums to dozens of pristine stretches of shoreline.

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Lake Tahoe Flume Trail
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Lahontan Cutthroat Trout

Nevada’s nearby high-desert backcountry astounds, with gigantic, trophy Lahontan cutthroat trout in Pyramid Lake, wild fish and untamed rapids in the Truckee River, rockhounding in the Black Rock Desert, and off-road action at Sand Mountain Recreation Area and endless tracks in the surrounding mountains. 

Meanwhile, rock climbers don’t even need to leave town, thanks to the largest artificial climbing wall on Earth, rising right above the Reno Arch, at BaseCamp Reno, located inside the Whitney Peak Hotel. And with HQs, major stores, and outlets for retailers like Patagonia, REI, Sierra Trading Post, Cabela’s, and Scheel’s, if you forget to pack a piece of gear, Reno’s got you covered.

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BaseCamp Reno

Reno Events: This Town Knows How to Party

There are plenty of things to do in Reno at any given moment, far beyond that sports book or poker room, but the city really cranks things up with its packed schedule of annual Reno events. For generations, Reno Tahoe has been a mecca for motorheads, who flood in by the thousands from all over the country for Hot August Nights, a weeklong celebration of all things classic cars, and both the Spring and Fall Rallies of Street Vibrations, some of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the West.

Trading wheels for feels, every July Reno becomes Artown. Deemed by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most comprehensive arts events in the country, this month-long, city-wide, mostly free festival features daily doses of dance, film, theater, workshops, and dozens of musical performances by rock, jam, blues, jazz, latin, reggae, and world music artists from around the planet.

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Reno Rodeo
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Street Vibrations

But the music doesn’t stop there. Each October, live music lovers crowd Midtown Reno for OffBeat Music Festival. Essentially the SXSW or Treefort of Reno, this β€œmusic discovery” fest packs more than a dozen venues with nearly 100 emerging local, regional, and festival-circuit artists, spanning everything from psych rock to honky-tonk to retro soul. Party animals get back in the spirit each December for the Reno Santa Pub Crawl, the largest and wildest gathering of Santas on Earth (usually 15,000+ of β€˜em), eating, drinking, and being exceptionally merry all over Downtown Reno.

And yet, as modern as Reno feels these days, it still proudly marches cattle up its main drag to the Livestock Events Center for ten days of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association-sanctioned bull riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing, and entertainment, as it has every June for over a century. Meanwhile, each September, another time-honored Reno tradition takes flight: the Great Reno Balloon Race, the world’s largest free hot-air ballooning event. Both the Super Glow Show and Dawn Patrol are well worth setting your alarm clocks extra early.

Reno Restaurants

Reno restaurants have always lured hungry vacationers, thanks to classic steakhouses, famous Reno casino buffets, and the third most bars per capita in America, but the ever-expanding hip vibes of this town have turned Reno into something of a culinary capital, holding its own on the foodie-fanatical West Coast. It’s hard to stomach the idea of picking favorites, but here’s a small helping of tried-and-true Reno eats.

Embrace those retro casino town vibes with perfectly cooked ribeyes, prime ribs, and filet mignonβ€”along with tableside salads, made-in-front-of-you cocktails, and royal treatmentβ€”at your choice of steakhouses, especially The Steakhouse at Western Village, Atlantis Steakhouse, Cactus Creek Prime Steakhouse at Bonanaza Casino, and Charlie Palmer Steak at Grand Sierra Resort. If it’s β€œsurf” you crave, bring your appetite to one of Reno’s countless all-you-can-eat sushi joints (it’s a big thing here).

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Louis’ Basque Corner

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Black Rabbit Mead Co.

Go Basque in time at Louis’ Basque Corner, purveyors of family-style Basque feasts, killer chorizo burgers at the bar, and Nevada’s unofficial state drink, the Picon Punch since 1967. Dive into homestyle, Italian comfort food bliss at Casale’s Halfway Club, Nevada’s oldest restaurant, still run by the same lively, friendly family since 1937. For old-school breakfast faves with a Mexican zest, beeline it to Peg’s Glorified Ham & Eggsβ€”and trust us, get the huevos rancheros.

See what’s brewin’ at internationally renowned Revision Brewing Co., or pint-hop your way around the Reno Brewery District, home to Record Street, Lead Dog, Pigeonhead, a few spirited distilleries, and Nevada’s first meaderyβ€”Black Rabbit Mead Co. For the AM kind of brews, hit up Hub Coffee Roasters, Old World Coffee Lab, and Bibo Coffee Co

For a modern flavors and local flair, head for Midtown Reno’s Homegrown Gastropub (oh man, that MAC), riverfront ambience at Smith and River and Wild River Grille, or the pop-up haven at Downtown Reno’s West Street Market, home to Thali, Sabrina’s West Street Kitchen, The Pizza Collective, Nom Eats with Seats, and an expertly curated wine list at the Thali Lounge wine bar. 

Travel Nevada Pro Tip

Get a local’s eye view of Reno’s art-tastic evolution while discovering the city’s cuisine scene, eclectic boutiques, swanky bars, and history along the way. More than 120 murals, sculptures, and pieces of public art dot the landscape, offering a deeper, richer way to explore the Biggest Little City in the World.

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West Street Market

Reno Hotels

From classic Reno casinos to newer, gaming-free Reno hotels, Reno makes it easy to find the perfect place to stay, play, and recharge between the days’ adventures. 

24-hour action stretches across Downtown Reno’s centerpiece, THE ROW Renoβ€”three interconnected properties (Eldorado, Silver Legacy, and Circus Circus) with 25 restaurants, 23 bars and lounges, 11 nightspots, thousands of rooms, gaming galore, the brand-new Spa at Silver Legacy, and even hundreds of carnival and video games at the kiddo-approved Carnival Midway at Circus Circus Reno

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Kramer’s Midtown

For that Vegas-esque, everything-under-one-roof resort experience away from Downtown Reno, head for Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, which keeps you occupied with ten restaurants, nightclubs, a movie theater, golf driving range, arcade, outdoor pools, wintertime ice rink, and more. The Tuscan-themed Peppermill Resort Spa Casino and Hotel delivers everything in its name, and is loved by locals for its outdoor pools and three-story spa complex, while the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa rewards visitors with its Forbes Four-Star spa, AAA Four Diamond steakhouse, and Bistro Napa, heralded by both Forbes and Wine Spectator.

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THE ROW Reno

Non-gamblers go gaga for the upscale, rock-and-roll-themed Whitney Peak Hotel, as well as for the Renaissance Reno, which offers riverfront dining at The Shore, a fabulous spa, and the massive Bundox Bocce facility (a prime draw for locals), a 22,000-square-foot indoor/outdoor competitive complex of bocce courts, shuffleboard tables, cornhole pitches, and other games, flanked by a full bar, huge TVs, and a DJ booth. For a stylishly lower-key taste of vintage-meets-modern, check into Kramer’s Midtown, a repurposed mid-century motel with plushy, totally reimagined boutique rooms, or one of the six beautifully restored rooms at recently restored The Jesse Hotel & Bar.

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Atlantis Spa
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Whether the in-laws are in town and you want to take them to a nice place for dinner or you want to treat your significant other to date night, check out these MidTown restaurants for a memorable meal 🍽πŸ₯‘...

midtowneats serves up a modern take on ageless taste with items such as their shrimp & grits or delicious burgers πŸ”. Visit arario_midtown for unique and fun dishes from all over the world using Authentic Korean flavor πŸ₯’. Their Kimchee fries and Bulgogi Bowl are a couple favorites! Next up, let’s take it to Italy with calafuriareno for traditional homemade Italian dishes with a bit of innovation complete with a wine list full of artisanal wines 🍝🍷. Head south on Virginia to lulousrestaurant for a local favorite for fine dining. They always serve fresh creative cuisine in an intimate ambiance πŸ•―πŸ₯‚. kauboi_izakaya on the other hand is casual but an outstanding Japanese restaurant popular for its menu of shareable items including grilled chicken breast, wing, heart, thigh, and skin skewers πŸ— along with seasonal ramen and dumplings πŸ₯Ÿ. Last up, homegrowngastropub is a great place to go if you have a group of picky eaters. Everyone will be able to find something from their large menu of organic items from burgers and brick oven pizzas πŸ• to ribeye steaks and salads πŸ₯©πŸ₯—.

In #MidTownReno there’s something for everyone! Check out our website RenoMidTownDistrict.com for a full list of restaurants in MidTown. 🌈✨

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