Discover Your Nevada

World Human Powered Speed Challenge

Sep 11 – 17, 2022

Teams from around the globe race the fastest bicycles in existence attempting to break the human-powered land speed record (currently 89.59 mph). Attendees can see the bikes up close and meet the riders, or even drag race themselves against the world’s fastest!

Lovers Aloft

Feb 9 – 12, 2023

Lovelock’s loftiest celebration features 10 days of balloon races and rides, fun family activities, and several Valentine’s Day-themed events—including a Murder Mystery Luncheon, Renewal of Marriage Vows, and “locking your love” in Lovers Lock Plaza.

Great Reno Balloon Race

Sep 9 – 11, 2022

It’s only fitting that the world’s largest free hot-air balloon festival comes to The Biggest Little City in the World every September.

Burning Man

Aug 29 – Sep 5, 2022

The biggest party on Planet Earth is devoted to community art, self-reliance, and self-expression forms an against-all-odds city in the desert, a culture of possibility, a network of dreamers and doers.

Reno National Championship Air Races

Sep 14 – 18, 2022

Hundreds of miles per hour, just sixty feet over your head. Don’t miss this globally renowned aircraft racing event held right in the heart of northern Nevada.

Genoa Candy Dance Arts & Crafts Faire

Sep 24 – 25, 2022

Nestled in the heart of historic Genoa, a century of sweet & success born from old town tradition in a charming pioneer community beckons crafters, vendors, and history-lovers alike to one of Carson Valley’s largest annual events.

Silver State Classic Challenge

Sep 15 – 18, 2022

How about an open-road race on a closed public highway from Las Vegas to Ely? As the world’s fastest road race, The Silver State Classic Challenge is where the rubber meets the road, sure to satisfy the speed demons in all of us.

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Jan 30 – Feb 4, 2023

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

Nevada Day Celebration

Oct 29 – 30, 2022

A Silver State holiday honoring it’s admission to the union, Nevada Day brims with history and culture and Battle Born heritage, celebrated from all corners of Nevada.

Fire & Ice Winter Festival

Jan TBD, 2023

Ice sculpting, snow bowling and ice fishing derbies on frozen Cave Lake—plus the only fireworks show we know of that launches explosives from a moving steam train—and plenty more winter-defying activities make Ely’s Fire & Ice Winter Festival the hottest (and coolest) place to be.