ACTIVE & ADVENTURE NEVADA DESTINATIONS
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Premier Holidays offers a six-night Nevada fly-drive from £1,099, staying at Las
Vegas, Ely, Elko, Reno and Lake
Tahoe. The price includes car hire and Heathrow flights, for travel in November. trade.
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Funway Holidays has an eight-day Nevada road trip including return flights from London to Las Vegas, stopping in Elko, Ruby Mountains, Reno, Carson City, Virginia City and Lake
Tahoe, and taking in the Loneliest Road, Great Basin National Park and the Lehman Caves. The price starts at £1,199 per person, based on two sharing. funway4agents.
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paddle-boarding, windsurfing or just good old-fashioned swimming. The pine forests surrounding its shores give the air its clean, fresh quality and provide an ideal setting for cool walks in the sweltering summers.
w SPIRIT OF THE WILD WEST If you’ve ever wanted to be a modern- day cowboy, then Elko in the heart of the Ruby Mountains is your kind of town. Alongside coffee shops and small-town casinos, you can buy authentic cowboy hats, leather chaps, lassos and saddles from JM Capriola, or enjoy a spot of cowboy poetry from the Cowboy Arts and Gear museum across the road. The annual Cowboy Expo is held here and even the tables at nearby Ogi’s cafe are stamped with local cattle brands.
w THE LONELIEST ROAD When Life magazine described the 287-mile stretch of Nevada’s Highway 50, from Ely to Fernley, as the loneliest road in America, it was not supposed to be a compliment. However, the state has embraced the name with enthusiasm, and visitors can collect stamps along the way in exchange for an official certificate signed by the state governor to prove that you survived your journey. Historical attractions along the
centuries-old pathway – Pony Express riders used to gallop along the route before the telegraph rendered the service obsolete – include the Nevada Northern Railway museum in Ely, and the Great Basin National Park, which has the darkest night skies in the US as well as the Great Basin Observatory to search them. Most visitors, though, will be drawn here for the exceptionally
RIGHT:
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America’
BELOW: Ruby
Mountains, near Elko
good off-road hiking and the pursuit of the classic ‘vanishing point’ road trip picture.
w SKIING AND PUTTING Nevada might be best known for its deserts but with abundant mountains and temperatures hitting minus 40C in winter, it’s the perfect setting for skiing. Mount Rose ski resort is just 30 minutes from Reno, meaning you can load up on the casino buffet in the morning, hit the slopes, and then finish off with a round of golf back in town in the afternoon. On the other side of the state, the
Ruby Mountains – known locally as the Rubies – rise to 11,387 feet and have everything from ghost towns, cattle ranches and heli-skiing to natural lakes, waterfalls and even its own beer (from the Ruby Mountain Brewing Company). If you’re keen to soak up the view from your balcony, then head for a night at Ruby 360 Lodge, an enormous 10-bedroom luxury lodge.
Lights of Las Vegas
Built on gambling but trying hard to prove it’s not just about slot machines, cocktails and craps tables, Las Vegas is a place like no other. It has a reputation as a party town but the food, entertainment, hotels and shopping are first class, so you can have fun without going near a roulette wheel. First-timers should head for the Bellagio dancing fountain on the Strip before finding a spot for some serious people- watching and planning the next indulgence. That might be Cirque du Soleil’s aquatic spectacle O, a 16-course tasting menu at Joel Robuchon, some retail therapy at Caesars Palace or sun-worshipping by the pool. And with the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and racing supercars in the desert as well, who needs the blackjack table?
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