Discover Your Nevada

Hot August Nights

Aug 2 – 11, 2024

For generations, Hot August Nights has been a mecca for motorheads, who cruise in by the thousands from all over the country for a weeklong celebration of hot rods, vintage vehicles, and all all things classic car.

Great Basin Astronomy Festival

Sep 5 – 7, 2024

With the darkest, quietest skies in the Lower 48, Great Basin National Park is the perfect place for an Astronomy Festival, featuring talks by astro-experts, photography workshops, and unbeatable stargazing, including through dozens of real-deal telescopes that truly let you see for yourself.

Beatty Days Festival

Oct 25 – 27, 2024

Ready for a three-day Weird Nevada extravaganza? Brimming with parades, cook-offs, art shows, only-in-Nevada races, and a whole lotta award winning chili, there’s no better way to celebrate the spirit of southwestern Nevada than Beatty Days.

Sunset, Stars & Champagne Train

May 16 – Oct 12, 2024

Bubbly champagne. Kaleidoscopic sunsets. Dazzling dark skies. Does it get any more magical than Nevada Northern Railway’s Sunset, Stars & Champagne train ride?

Jim Butler Days & Nevada State Mining Championships

May 19 – 27, 2024

Honor the man (and the burro) who made the accidental discovery that founded Tonopah during the nine-day, town-wide party that is Jim Butler Days.

Stewart Father’s Day PowWow

Jun 14 – 16, 2024

Visit the Stewart Indian School on Father’s Day weekend to witness (or join in) as the campus comes alive for its biggest annual event, featuring hundreds of dancers, dozens of arts and craft vendors, Indian Tacos, Stewart School alumni recognition, special events, exhibits and more.

American Century Celebrity Golf Championship

Jul 10 – 14, 2024

Some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world beckon golf fans, A-List celebrities, and outdoor recreationalists of all kinds for the annual summertime American Century Golf Championship in spectacular South Lake Tahoe.

National Basque Festival

Jul 6 – 7, 2024

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

Burning Man

Aug 25 – Sep 2, 2024

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.

Summer Concert Series at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena

Jun 14 – Sep 21, 2024

South Lake Tahoe turns up, tunes in, and rocks out at the annual Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series, where chart-topping music legends put on concerts of a lifetime next to America’s most beautiful lake.