We always have a blast exploring Nevada’s wild past, but we also love celebrating new beginnings. Take a look at some attractions, activities, and accommodations that are new to the Nevada scene.
Highlights
Michael Heizer’s City, a vast land sculpture in the desert of central Nevada, opened to the public in the Fall of 2022 on a limited reservation basis. In development for more than 50 years, City is composed of mounds and depressions made of compacted dirt, rock, and concrete, built in five phases, each containing its own substructures within. Information about 2023 tours will be released soon.
Haunted Boulder City Ghost & UFO Tour are led by paranormal expert Joshua P. Warren, a regular fixture of Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Learn the stories of the many people who perished while building Hoover Dam, the ghost dog that roams the streets are night, and other Weird Nevada facts.
Nevada is known for its rockhounding. The newly-opened Goldfield’s Enigmata Esoterica offers all kinds of custom turquoise and silver jewelry acquired straight from the Nevada desert. Manned by two artists behind the curated works at the International Car Forest, makers Richard and Astrid create artworks of all mediums inside their historic home-turned-workshop.
Travel Nevada Pro Tip
When you think hotels and hospitality, you think Nevada. Las Vegas alone boasts more than 160,000 rooms—more than any other city in the U.S.—and just added more at one of the swankiest properties to open in Downtown Las Vegas in years.
But recently, it’s not just what’s “new” to the scene, but also what has rejoined it, with a couple of gorgeously restored hotels, both originally built in the 1900s—one in a former bank building, and one which now serves killer tacos.
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Top Annual Events
With only-gonna-find-it-here festivities, from Burning Man and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to the Great Basin Astronomy Festival and Off Beat Music Festival, Nevada’s roster of annual shindigs has got some gusto.
