Reno, "the largest of the smallest cities in the world", is located in the beautiful north-western area of ​​Nevada, right at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains . Here everyone will find something to their liking . Reno is the second most popular tourist destination in the state with excellent resorts, gaming and family entertainment, opportunities to make outings to nature, a lot of festivals and museums, fantastic cuisine, annual shows, exhibitions and other events . And all this against the backdrop of a rich and complex history . Here was made a historical pen Johnson-Jeffries flight . Here, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable created the "Uncaused" in 1961 . Such Reno - "the gateway to the Old West" .

How to get to Reno

Rino Tahoe International Airport accepts many domestic flights, including planes from Alaska, from Chicago, Denver, Portland, Vegas, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego and Salt Lake City . Also in the city stops "California Marshmallow" - the train that follows from Emeryville to Chicago, and the train "Amtrak" from Sacramento . But still the most interesting is to go to Reno by the highway . Buses of the distant track They go here mainly on I-80 - the old emigrant road along the Humboldt stream, which can be reached from the west from the west. . Alternative - more direct US-50, "the lonely highway in America", but it crosses several mountain ranges with steep gradients and sharp turns . Also before Reno, you can get from Vegas by US-95 (about 8 hours along a rather boring desert landscape) . Finally, from the north, from Sacramento, in Reno, there is a direct interstate-80 highway , but on Friday evening, especially in the ski season, it happens Bito eyeballs .

Entertainment, excursions and attractions Reno

Victorian square - the center of the Old Town , where there are casinos, restaurants, cinema and several modern (partially still under construction) complexes. The annual summer show Best in the West is also held here

Nevada Museum of Art in its current beautiful building opened in 2003. It houses national and international exhibitions in addition to small exhibitions of regional values. The museum is located in the financial quarter of Liberty Street, in the southern part of the city center.

The central library of the city was designed with the idea of ​​building it in a park. It turned out that the land and the park, and the library is not enough, so the park was placed inside the building. This library is a marvelous example of the inspired architecture school of the 1960s that has passed the test of time

Wingfield Park is located along the Traka River, just a few blocks from the main casino concentration site . There is an amphitheater with regular performances in the summer, a park for kayaking, open all year round, and plenty of wonderful places to sit and relax . This park hosts annual festivals "Reno River" in May and "Artown" in July . Another attractive city park is Idlewyld . @ It is not difficult before him go to Riverside Drive, and there is a city rosary, a skate park and a lot of walking paths . The park is located on the southern bank of the River Traki .

The Nevada Museum of Art is located on West Liberty Street, and is the only state art museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The main focus here is on the growing interest in protecting the environment. Among the permanent expositions is the photo exhibition "Alternative Landscape", which demonstrates the influence of man on the environment.

The National Automobile Museum is located to the south of the river, and here is a small but very interesting collection of models dating back to the late 19th century .This is more than 200 cars in four different galleries, among which there is the Cadillac-Eldorado 1973 g ., owned by Elvis, "Guia L6 .4 "Frank Sinatra (1961 g .), John F's "Lincoln-Continental" .Kennedy (1962 g .) and the "Chevrolet Corvette" by John Wayne (1953 .) .Also here you can see "DeLorean", covered with 24-carat gold (one of the three models produced for the "American Express") and "Gerrari" - "Jeep Vagonir", equipped with a Ferrari V-12 engine .The museum entered the top ten best cars on the version of the magazine "Kar Collector" .

A few blocks north of the university is the San Rafael Ranch. This is a country park with an area of ​​570 acres, where an arboretum, the Wilbur D. May Museum and a summer children's water attraction are located. There is also an annual balloon race in late summer.

Casino Reno

Although the glory of Las Vegas Reno is not overshadowed, yet gambling here is an important component, and many casinos attract tourists from all over the country and not only .One of the newest casinos is the Silver Legacy, built in 1995 .and connected with the pink neon "Eldorado" suspension bridges .The latter, by the way, is distinguished by one of the best in Reno buffet and a lot of restaurant facilities (steakhouse, beer pub, seafood restaurant and cafe) .Another casino connected to the "Silver Legacy" is the "Circus Circus", where it is not recommended to eat, but it is recommended to leave the children: there is a lot of interesting for them .

Network casinos "Harra" appeared exactly in Reno, and at the site a good restaurant of Asian noodles was opened. Classic casino in the "Reno-style" - "Club Kal Neva"; "Atlantis" is a tropical theme, and a large "Peppermill" competes with the casino of the same name in Vegas.

In addition, the casino resorts of Reno are also noteworthy: the Grand Sierra Resort is the largest hotel / casino in the city that is located near the airport, with a swimming pool, a nightclub, a number of restaurants, a shopping mall, cinema, video games, bowling and God knows more than .Another large casino hotel is John Askoogi's Nugget, which is located on Victorian Square: it has a wonderful coffee shop Rosi and Basque Orozko, as well as a Polynesian restaurant, an oyster bar, a French buffet, a pub, Starbucks and live concerts once a week .

Events Reno

Tourism is one of the main items of the city's revenues, and therefore many events are held here, especially in the summer. National aviation championships are held in the city in the middle of September, and it gathers enthusiasts of air sports from around the world, as well as 200 thousand spectators annually. The championship is held in the small regional airport of Reno-Stead, which is 16 km from the city. The program includes competitions in six different classes, a large exhibition of aircraft and several military and civilian airshows.

Another large-scale event is "Artown", a festival that lasts a month, including many exhibitions and concerts. The idea of ​​the festival was born in 1996, and since then it has become one of the most significant in the country, uniting about 350 events at 100 venues of the city. Annually the festival is attended by about 350 thousand people, and to participate in it are invited stars with a worldwide reputation: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marcel Marceau, American Ballet Theater and Harlem Gospel Choir.

In addition, Reno is the nearest major city to Black Rock City .Black Rock City is an ephemeral city that exists for only one week in a year, during the radical art festival "Burning Man" .In the days of maximum occupancy in the city "live" about 60 thousand .people, including, of course, firefighters and ambulance workers .This week in the city there is a post office, a police station, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants and hundreds of art installations .After a week, all this disappears (mostly - it is burnt), leaving behind a naked white desert .The festival moved here in 1990 .from San Francisco, where he passed from 1986 .Its main principles are self-service, no "spectators" (all "citizens" somehow take part in the performances), no debris after themselves and radical self-expression within the limits permitted by law, including nudism .