Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip at night ...

... and during the day. View from the “Eiffel Tower” of the Hotel Paris to the south.

The Las Vegas Strip is a section of Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas , Nevada , which is known for its dense collection of luxury hotels and casinos . The 6.8 km-long "Strip" ( Engl. For strip) already located outside the city limits in the suburbs Paradise and Winchester . It begins in the south at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Russell Road, not far from the “ Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas ” street sign, and ends at the Stratosphere Tower in the north on Sahara Avenue. From there, it's a little less than three miles to downtown Las Vegas and Fremont Street .

Hotels and casinos

The first casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, El Rancho Vegas, was built in 1939 and opened in 1941. It was destroyed by fire in 1960 and replaced in 1970 by the Hilton Grand Vacations Hotel, which still exists today. The second hotel was the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, which opened in 1942 and was demolished in 2007. The Flamingo Las Vegas opened its doors in 1946 and is still in operation today. Numerous hotels were opened in the 1950s, such as the Desert Inn or The Dunes , many of which no longer exist today. The Riviera Las Vegas opened in 1955, the first high-floor hotel on the Strip. The Caesars Palace followed in 1966, and the Circus Circus Hotel in 1968 . Numerous hotel openings were also made in the 1970s and 1980s, including Harrah's Las Vegas . The first so-called megaresort was the Mirage , which opened in 1989 . Since then, the Strip has overtaken Fremont Street , the old entertainment hub in downtown Las Vegas. Downtown Las Vegas itself has suffered considerable losses due to the boom on the Strip. Casino operators responded by renovating facades, building multiplex cinemas or creating new attractions such as the Fremont Street Experience , a giant dome that covers several blocks.

The Strip is now a world-famous entertainment mile, home to many of the largest casinos and most impressive hotels in the world. According to the number of rooms, many of the hotels are among the 20 largest in the world . As of June 2015, Las Vegas had almost 150,000 hotel rooms, around half of them on the Strip. Many of the hotels on the Strip are adventure hotels, the exterior and interior design of which follows a central theme. The Luxor with its pyramid and Sphinx statue is presented in the style of ancient Egypt , a copy of the Eiffel Tower stands in front of Paris Las Vegas and the typical sights of Venice have been recreated in the Venetian . Other well-known hotels on the Strip include the MGM Grand Hotel , Hotel Bellagio , Excalibur Hotel, and New York-New York Hotel . The only luxury hotels on the Strip, the Vdara , the Mandarin Oriental and the Four Seasons do not have a casino or slot machines . Also located at the southern beginning of the Las Vegas Strip is the Little Church of the West , where numerous celebrities said yes.

Since June 15, 2000, the Las Vegas Strip has been recognized by the US Department of Transportation as part of the National Scenic Byway program as an All-American Road , a street that is considered a landmark of national importance. Unlike most places in the US, the Strip allows you to drink alcohol on the street. However, alcohol in bottles or cans is not tolerated along the strip on public holidays such as the US National Day , Independence Day .

Locations of the hotels and casinos

North towards Fremont Street
	↑
Stratosphere
W. Sahara Avenue		E. Sahara Avenue
Hilton Grand Vacations Circus Circus Resorts World (under construction)		Sahara The Drew (under construction)
E. Desert Inn Road		E. Desert Inn Road
Trump
		Encore
		Wynn
Spring Mountain Road		Sands Avenue
Treasure Island		The Palazzo
		The Venetian
The Mirage		Casino Royale
		Harrah's
		The LINQ Resort and Casino
Caesars Palace		flamingo
		The Cromwell
E. Flamingo Road		E. Flamingo Road
Bellagio The Cosmopolitan		Bally's
		Paris
		Planet Hollywood
W. Harmon Avenue		E. Harmon Avenue
CityCenter : Mandarin Oriental , Aria , Vdara		Travelodge
Monte Carlo
Rue de Monte Carlo		Rue de Monte Carlo
New York-New York		The Signature at MGM Grand MGM Grand
W. Tropicana Avenue		E. Tropicana Avenue
Excalibur		Tropicana
E. Reno Road		E. Reno Road
Luxor
W. Hacienda Avenue		E. Hacienda Avenue
Mandalay Bay Delano Four Seasons (at Mandalay Bay Hotel)
Russell Road
		↓
South towards Interstate 215 McCarran International Airport

and display information about the image

Night panorama of the Las Vegas Strip with numerous hotels, 2016.

Movies and movie quotes

• 2001: In Ocean's Eleven, the protagonists steal 160 million US dollars from the Bellagio Hotel on the Strip.
• 1997: In the film Con Air , the transport plane lands on the strip and demolishes the facades of adjacent hotels. This spectacular fictional landing in particular earned the film the anti- Golden Raspberry award in the category of most ruthless disregard for human life and public property , which was created especially for this film.

Former hotels (selection)

• Riviera (closed in 2015, demolished in 2016)
• Sahara (closed 2011)
• Stardust (demolished in 2007)
• The New Frontier (demolished in 2007)
• Boardwalk Hotel and Casino (demolished 2006)
• Klondike Hotel & Casino (closed in 2006, demolished in 2008)
• Westward Ho (closed in 2005, demolished in 2006)
• Desert Inn (demolished 2001)
• El Rancho (demolished in 2000)
• Silver City Hotel and Casino (closed in 1999)
• Sands (demolished in 1996)
• The Dunes (demolished in 1993)

literature

• Venturi, Robert ; Scott Brown, Denise; Izenour, Steven: Learning from Las Vegas: On the iconography and architectural symbolism of the business city, Bauwelt Fundamente Volume 53, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2003 ISBN 3-7643-6362-2

Web links

Commons : Las Vegas Strip  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Interactive map of the Las Vegas Strip

Coordinates: 36 ° 7 ′ 17 "  N , 115 ° 10 ′ 18.2"  W.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Recession still haunts Las Vegas  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , philstar.com, July 4, 2011  
2. ↑ Las Vegas Visitor Statistics June 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), lvca.com, August 6, 2015