Discover Your Nevada

Reno Rodeo

Jun 19 – 28, 2025

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 PRCA-sanctioned bull riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing, and entertainment, as it has every June for more than a century.

Mesquite Motor Mania

Jan 17 – 19, 2025

The annual Mesquite Motor Mania extravaganza draws more than 900 vehicles and thousands of hot-rodders to one of the largest (and flashiest!) car shows in the Silver State.

Winnemucca Ranch Hand Rodeo Weekend

Feb 26 – Mar 2, 2025

Real working buckaroos go spur-to-spur for prizes (and bragging rights) in Steer Stopping, Wild Mugging, Trailer Loading, Ranch Doctoring, and more at the thrilling Winnemucca Ranch Hand Rodeo.

Reno Santa Crawl

Dec 14, 2024

Drink and be merry with more than 20,000 holiday revelers at the largest and wildest gathering of Santas on Earth. Don you now your gay apparel—whether it’s a big red suit, elf costume, or something wilder—and come get into some Christmas spirits, Reno style!

Genoa Western Heritage Days

May 2 – 4, 2025

Set against the snow-covered Eastern Sierra in the heart of Nevada’s oldest town, join in on this three-day celebration honoring cowboy poetry, authentic Western music, and plenty of family fun for the whole crew.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Jan 27 – Feb 1, 2025

Warm up this winter with an abundance of buckaroo stories—first-hand accounts, narratives passed down and around, and undoubtedly, a yarn or two.

Reno is Artown

Jul 1 – 31, 2025

Into art? How about music, dance, theater, visual arts, workshops, and other cultural entertainment? Reno sure is. Which is why everyone’s invited to 500 events, featuring artists from around the world—free and all over town, every single day of July.

National Basque Festival

Jul 5 – 6, 2025

Whether you’ve got sheepherder’s blood or you simply dig chorizo, you’re invited to Elko for Nevada’s six-decade-strong National Basque Festival—home to dancing, traditional music, woodchopping competitions, mouthwatering paella and lamb, and chances aplenty to taste our unofficial state drink, the Picon Punch.

Dam Short Film Festival

Feb 12 – 17, 2025

A delight for indie filmmakers and movie buffs, the Dam Short Film Festival celebrates the art of short film, screening more than 120 movies of all genres in the historic heart of Boulder City.

Virginia City Grand Prix

Apr 26 – 27, 2025

The annual Virginia City Grand Prix gives spectators an about-as-close-as-it-gets view of one of the largest and most unique motocross races in the west, with dirt bikers ripping up and down mountains, old mining roads, and Historic C Street.