Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Boulevard South The Las Vegas Strip, A Designated All American Road (National Scenic Byway Program) · Las Vegas, Nevada
The Las Vegas Strip is the roughly 4.2-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South lined with giant casino resorts, running from around Mandalay Bay and the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign in the south to the STRAT tower in the north. Most of it lies not in the City of Las Vegas at all but in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester in Clark County. It began in 1941 with El Rancho Vegas, grew through the mob-era resorts of the 1940s and 1950s, and was rebuilt from the late 1980s into today's line of themed megaresorts: a Paris with a half-size Eiffel Tower, a Venice with indoor canals, a Roman palace, a New York skyline and a black-glass pyramid. People come for the casinos, shows, restaurants, pools and nightclubs, for free spectacles such as the Bellagio fountains, and for the sheer scale of the lit-up boulevard at night. It is also hot for much of the year, loud, expensive and far longer on foot than it looks. This row covers the corridor as a whole: how to move along it, what is free, what has closed and which traps catch first-time visitors.
Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, United States
NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: the Strip itself is a public road and sidewalk open 24 hours, and casino floors never close. Resort shops, attractions and restaurants keep their own hours, often roughly 10 am to 11 pm; the Bellagio fountains run from the afternoon to around midnight; observation decks and the High Roller open from late morning or midday to late night. Shows have dark days, often one or two nights a week. The traps that ruin a day are walking outside at midday in summer, arriving on a show's dark night, assuming a pool is open in winter, and missing a sold-out weekend show. Confirm current times before relying on them.